About 50 people were shot — 12 fatally — early Friday when a gunman opened fire at an Aurora movie theater during a premiere showing of the new Batman movie.A 24-year-old man in is custody and an apartment building in north Aurora connected to the suspect was being evacuated and searched for possible explosives, according to Police Chief Dan Oates.
Several federal sources identified the suspect as James Holmes, NBC reported.
Ten people died at the scene and two others died at hospitals. Many of the injured were critically injured.
Around 12:39 a.m., police received multiple reports of the shooting at the theater complex, located at 14300 E. Alameda Ave., and arrived minutes later, according to Aurora police.
Police say the suspect "appeared" at the front of one of the theaters showing "The Dark Knight Rises." Witnesses told The Post he entered through an emergency exit at the right front of the Theater 9 less than 10 minutes into the film.
The suspect then threw some type of explosive and started shooting into the packed theater.
12 killed, 50 wounded at Colorado movie theater
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12 killed, 50 wounded at Colorado movie theater
Colorado Massacre Victim Escaped Eaton Centre Shooting
(Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind)
Tom Tomorrow: Sigh
I wrote this cartoon after the Gabby Giffords shooting in January of 2011. It remains tragically relevant.
Louie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs'
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Friday that the shootings that took place in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater hours earlier were a result of "ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs" and questioned why nobody else in the theater had a gun to take down the shooter.
We can’t blame The Dark Knight Rises for the Aurora shooting. But we also can’t ignore the parallels between Christopher Nolan’s grim world and our own.
Thanks for that image, Boom Boom -- I just ran across one I think is worth sharing too:
Good one, BK!
The 2nd amendment is fine as far as i'm concerned, it's good that there is at least one country where a specialized branch of violence does not have privilaged dibs on guns, people forget that the US is a fairly violent culture regardless of guns, and two it has upwards of 300 million people(one of a half dozen of countries on the globe), you have to put it in perspective, Brevik was not succesfully controled in gun controlled scandenavia, this guy with his brains and the internet(and no prior record mind you) would have found a way as well.
When the invevitable day comes that the US state has to be abolished, dibs on guns will be a good thing. Also look up the racist roots of gun control sometime.
I think Rick Warren has the cause of this nailed. It's because this guy was taught evolution.
His tweet " @RickWarren: When students are taught they are no different from animals, they act like it."
So all they have to do is teach creationsim and no one will ever get shot. The guy is brilliant!
More likely then not if their had been someone with a gun, they would be dead and even more people would be dead. Unless they had some sort of real life fire fight experience which the average gun owner sure doesn't. They may be highly skilled at hitting a target or shooting a deer but when the target or animal is shooting back? Yeah, not so much. A 'takedown' even with trained people involved isn't of some sort of guarentee just because the gun carrier is the 'good guy.' There may even have been those that attempted something and they failed.
Revolution by way of the gun doesn't appear to have ushered in anything substantially different than what it managed to replace. Energy is better invested in something that renders the taking up with violence obsolete, or at least something implied but put off indefinitely. Surges in the steady drone of violence which already surrounds everything has all the appeal of classical reaction. I think it's clear however that gun control provides more of an unrestricted, monopolized licence to those who control them.
The gun lobby in the USA is very significant - especially the NRA and the manufacturers, and it is a highly profitable industry last time I looked.
since there's obviously lots of wild speculations going on with this thing, here's more:
Two Gunmen: Dark Knight in Denver - Gladio?
http://aangirfan.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dark-knight-in-denver-gladio.html
"Two gunmen wearing gas masks and body armour opened fire at a crowded cinema at a shopping mall in Aurora Colorado, USA. Fox News reported there were two gunmen involved and one was reportedly in custody. It looks like we have another Gladio style shooting - Gladio - strategy of tension - getting people scared and easy to control.."
Yeap, that was quick, we all knew it was only a matter of time before the hair-brained conspiracies started coming out...
I must confess, that dirty little thought crossed my mind as well when I first heard the story, though I was thinking more of one of the other studios.
It's a bit penny ante for the illuminati, no? On the other hand, gotta keep on top of the wave.
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and not that I don't dig the retro postage stamp design, but I sure don't want to go back to the days of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
There's a predictable cycle of mourning and finger-pointing that follows a massacre like the shootings last week in Aurora, Colorado. First come the calls for unity and flags flown at half-staff. Then the national fissures appear: The gun lobby stiffens its spine as gun control advocates make their case. Psychologists parse the shooter's background, looking for signs of mental illness or family disarray. Politicians point fingers about "society run amok" and "cultures of despair."
We've been down this path so many times, yet we keep missing the elephant in the room: How many of the worst mass murderers in American history were women? None. This is not to suggest that women are never violent, and there are even the rare cases of female serial killers. But why aren't we talking about the glaring reality that acts of mass murder (and, indeed, every single kind of violence) are overwhelmingly perpetrated by men? Pointing out that fact may seem politically incorrect or irrelevant, but our silence about the huge gender disparity of such violence may be costing lives.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/opinion/christakis-males-homicide/inde...
Yes, Caissa.
I tried to post this yesterday, so here it is now.
Why most mass murderers are privileged white men
I think there are reasons as to why a general aversion exists against delving too far into the reasons why an average white guy with every advantage society has to offer going for him, would want to destroy the society.
Are you being sarcastic here? Do you realize what site you are posting on?
What is the specialized branch of violence you are referring to?
What does population have to do with anything?
Breivik is an exception in Norway, not an example to use to refute gun control.
If Holmes had not been able to get the guns he was using he would have had a harder time doing what he did. That is something we can control.
Why is it inevitable that the US govt will be abolished?
What racist roots of gun control are you referring to?
The Nauseating Grief of Diseased America - by Arthur Silber
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-nauseating-grief-of-d...
"...But I do wonder about the national paroxysm of grief, the generalized scream of pain offered by every politician and public official from president to trash collector, the public lamentation and wailing, the sickening enthusiasm shown by political tribalists from every point in the spectrum for scoring disgustingly cheap points off the blood-spattered corpses of the victims.
Yet that isn't honest of me: I don't wonder about such public displays at all. I view them with deep loathing and contempt. I consider them, without exception, to be the smptoms of irretrievably damaged, narcissistic psychologies. Those who engage in such public displays and political positioning are vile and despicable in a manner that is close to impossible to capture in words..."
Waiting to see if and how anti depressants played a role in this massacre....seems to be a taboo correlation between massacres of this nature and serotonin uptake inhibitors that only come out on the tail end of trials or years after the gag orders expire...this goes hand in hand with narcissistic psychologies symptoms.
Far as the gun control issue ..it's looking like fear takes over and more people than ever are acquiring guns to protect themselves in the US ...all I can say is "live by the sword. die by the sword"..a nation that has quenched it's gun killing thirst with this many wars :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Clearly has a problem ...and they are probably arming themselves for the inevitable revolt / civil war that is just around the corner as towns , followed by cities start collapsing financially followed by social rot...then moral collapse. This is what Canada should be protecting itself from , especially with the conservatives umbilical joining us to the US.
CBC and CTV are reporting that gun sales in Colorado have spiked since the shooting - this always happens, and the gun manufacturers - greedy bastards that they are - must be rubbing their hands with glee. After a massacre, folks buy guns to protect their homes, and because of fears that the country will toughen up the gun laws, so they want to stock up before that happens.
Vicious cycle
Meanwhile.....
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/fbi-to-review-anaheim-poli...
Fighting a losing battle? The need for better gun control laws in the U.S. - Amy Goodman
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/07/need-better-gun-control-laws-us
Denver Massacre Story Changes
http://aangirfan.blogspot.ca/2012/07/denver-massacre-story-changes.html
Denver Shootings, MK Ultra, Gladio (and vid)
http://aangirfan.blogspot.ca/2012/07/denver-shootings-mk-ultra-gladio.html
Who knows? Stranger things have happened. Good doco on 'Gladio' included in any case...
RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.
False Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence
From crazed lone gunmen and crazed lone Oklahoma City bombers to crazed jihadist zombies led by Elvis bin Laden who all hate us cause we're free and they ain't - it's all for public consumption. Nowadays 'conspiracy theory' is newz journalist code for the unspeakable truth.(Gore Vidal)
Americans are supposed to live in constant fear. In the 1950's it was grade b horror flicks and fear of the red coats. The Sovs stabbed them in the backs by 1989-91. It's imperative that Americans live in fear, and if not in fear of nuclear incineration, then fearful of one another and secreting unhealthy levels of adrenaline in a heightened state of alert for non-existent threats. This is what Gladio was all about: inducing mass hysteria resulting in public demands for greater security. We must be fearful but never rebellious. The people will police themselves.
Why the reaction is different when the terrorist is white.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich says that scapegoating of Moslems was planned as early as 1991. Neoconservatives, according to Sepahpour-Ulrich, needed to replace the former USSR with another terrifying threat to U.S. national security and, indeed, the rest of the freedom-loving civilized western world run mostly by rich and influential white people.
And Alex Kane detailed how the U.S. Military itself is pre-programmed to hate Moslems. Wade Michael Page is a product of the U.S. Government's policies for fear and hatred.
Note: The cartoon character depicted in the following U.S. Military graphic appears more Sikh than Moslem
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The slide above was one of many anti-Muslim presentations US military officers sat through (Picture via Wired)
There are professional organizations and millions of ordinary Americans and Canadians who do not believe the official U.S. Government accounts of 9/11/01. We believe they are hiding the truth about what happened. There were thousands of whites and non-whites alike murdered on 9/11, and that there is an ongoing cover-up of the facts by U.S. Government. But if one thing is certain about the Sikh temple shootings, neconservatives in government and the military are directly responsible for sowing the seeds of hatred in America and should be held responsible.
Accomplice to theater shootings according to one eye witness.
What if James Holmes is a patsy?
What if Holmes was drugged and then instructed to kill people in a movie theater? With drugs like scopolamine, would James Holmes even remember that he murdered anyone?
Another day, another shooting in the USA!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/reports-of-multiple-people-shot-at-texas-university-campus/article4478958/
They'll just have to shutdown all colleges in the U.S. because it's obvious higher education is producing defective citizens.
And yet another shooting today, this one at the office of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobby group in Washington.
A security guard was able to stop the shooter and is recovering from a gunshot wound and is being hailed as a hero. He was the only one injured.
Whatever one thinks of the Family Research Council's politics, this act was appalling and I'm glad to see how quickly it's been condemned by leading LGBT advocacy groups.