Mass Shooting At Denver Batman Movie Premiere

Oh yeah, and I forgot, Tico: armored shooter walking up aisle (tho he apparently didn't) is unaffected by guy shooting him, kills him, and continues shooting innocents.

re Hawk:
We can't afford the murder rate we already have, is what we can't afford.

Do not confused the man with facts just as it is unfair to point out to Firefly that in the so call rape culture we are at a 33 years low in reported rapes until the database was fool with at least.

I almost wish somehow the crazy idea of disarming all the citizens would pass and become law as it would be one hell of a means to get rid of what had become a government of and for the special interests

Bill, brag about genocide.

Footnote I am going to see the movie this Sunday and I will be armed just in case and somehow I do not think I will be the only armed movie goer.

There are whole swaths of gun owners who don’t use their guns in a criminal way. But many of the people who use guns to commit murder are also law-abiding until they’re not. (Holmes’s only previous brush with the law seems to have been a 2011 traffic summons.) We shouldn’t simply wait for the bodies to fall to separate the wheat from the chaff.

One step in the right direction would be to reinstate the assault weapons ban. Even coming from a gun culture, I cannot rationalize the sale of assault weapons to everyday citizens. (The Washington Post reported that Holmes had a shotgun, two pistols and an AR-15 assault rifle, all legally purchased.)

But this will be an uphill battle because the National Rifle Association has been extremely effective at promoting its agenda and sowing fears that gun rights are in jeopardy even when they are not...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/blow-mourning-and-mulling.html?hp

In our country, the mass shootings come so frequently that most of them go by virtually unnoticed. Did you catch the one last week in Tuscaloosa? Seventeen people at a bar, hit by a gunman with an assault weapon.

People from most other parts of the industrialized world find the American proliferation of guns shocking, but, really, they have no idea. Even most Americans don’t know that Congress has, in recent years, refused to consider laws that would ban the sale of assault weapons capable of firing 100 bullets without reloading, and declined to allow the attorney general to restrict people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing weapons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/guns-and-the-slog.html?hp

I keep thinking about David's version of utopia, where everyone is armed,

and what happens in the theater under those circumstances. Let's call the original madman with the guns X, and the "good guys" who are armed A,B,C, etc. X comes in with his multiple guns, throws an apparent smoke grenade, and starts shooting. When the audience realizes it's not a special effect, A knowing he's a good guy, pulls his gun and fires somewhere in the general direction of X, whom he can't see very clearly if at all.

Now I've seen calculations that trained soldiers in battle actually hit something
no more than 1 time in a hundred,

and all these guys are almost totally untrained, certainly untrained under combat conditions,
so A's shot more likely hits someone innocent.

B, knowing he's a good guy, but having no knowledge of who else is, sees A's muzzle flash,
thinks he's a bad guy and aims at him, probably hitting someone else, if anyone.

C, knowing he's a good guy, but assuming the other shooters are in league, pulls his gun and fires at A's or B's muzzle flash, or maybe at X in the smoke. In seconds there's a murderous crossfire among all the "good guys" firing at all the other "good guys" wwhom they assume are bad guys because they're shooting, and X, amidst people running and screaming, trying to get away and hit by all those other 99 shots that go nowhere near the shooters. The carnage is even worse.

The ONLY thing that works is taking the guns away.