Most mass killers off themselves-they have enough of a conscience to realize that life after murdering 20-70 strangers won’t be pleasant.
Bt not this guy-why?
a smart thing to do is to bring back the projectionist or have a monitor in the room. this has someone on scene to deal with minor disturbances and film breakdowns. or in this case be able to hit a panic button, call 911, stop the movie, bring up the lights a bit (or not depending on if it would help the gunman), be able to direct people and rescue.
these days even to get an annoying talker to stop you have to search for quite some time to find an employee to remove them.
And … the conspiracy theories are already out. Something called Natural News is saying that the only way that Holmes could have gotten the equipment he had was if the F.B.I. had supplied him.
I’ve never heard of this Natural News before. Anyone have any background on it?
I’d take that bet. If anything, I think people will be less afraid to admit they love comic book movies because “it could have been me.”
It’s called an exaggeration and I thought a rather obvious one. For some apparently not.
…and a shotgun. And a rifle. And tear gas.
And I didn’t say it wasn’t “germane.” I’m just sick of people using a horrible tragedy - esp immediately after it happens - to push their well-worn political agenda.
I’m talking about from the outside going in, duh.
Just saw that; this wasn’t what they were saying initially.
Poster child for the warped perspective I’m talking about. Hilarious joke. Stay classy.
You’re right. Cops don’t need to patrol areas; they should all sit in the precinct and wait until something happens. Reactive, not preventative. Good idea!
I don’t think this brilliant response needs explanation.
Well if THAT’S all, by all means, people should taking the crying/screaming kids to a movie. If it’s convenient for you, to hell with everyone else. And libraries and restaurants (etd etc) while they’re at it. Dude you’re a wealth of brilliance!
They should be and this would have screwed up his plan right out of the gate. I know it’s hindsight but I’m all for eliminating such exits which are non-emergency.
Yep. And that’s pretty much every movie I’ve been to in recent years. The screaming babies are the most fun. :rolleyes:
Let’s just say that Fred Willard just joined the Gary Condit club.
Too dumb for words.
I don’t understand this. You have a location where fifty people are shot and more than ten are killed. Is there something more important going on in Aurora at that particular time where the police need to be? Is there someone speeding or drinking liquor in public?
I’m struck by how much this event mirrors NIU’s own shooting in 2008. In both cases, the shooter was a graduate student who was off his meds, had numerous guns obtained legally, walked into an auditorium and started shooting.
…I don’t know. Stuff happens. You can’t protect yourself against everything. Some people are just not all there, and they can get guns.
Or for that matter the thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled to Syria because of the Iraq War and now are having to flee there…
Unimportant!
When hysteria is your decision-making tool, little things like facts & common sense are discarded, like unto a bale thrown upon a fire.
Because if they hadn’t, you and people like you would be whining about how heartless they are.
It’s Mike Adams, anti-vaccine lunatic extraordinaire. He doesn’t limit his conspiracy theory ramblings to health-related issues these days.
Alex Jones is also weighing in that it’s a staged psy-op by Obama to begin the process of taking away our guns. These conspiracy theories will fit right in with the people who think that Fast and Furious was used to create gun mayhem in Mexico so the U.S. government could begin the process of repealing the Second Amendment.
I am beyond disgusted and infuriated at these people.
Alex Jones I always find particularly disgusting because I don’t think he is crazy. I think it’s all just part of his schtick. He’s basically doing it for the money.
That’s not really the point, is it? Talking about a witnessed, verified, etc. heroic act is actual reporting. Farmer is complaining that the reporter she was watching wasn’t talking about a witnessed verified anything, just making stuff up on the fly. If the reporters speculation turns out to have been right, that doesn’t really make it any better.
I have seen them before, they are big woo woo proponents, on past occasions I have seem them publish anti-vaccine screeds and even published global warming denial crap.
Or it was the first report of something that did happen.
Ah yes, I missed the edit, **Acsenray **when you see a “Natural News” article, remember that it is coming from the same bottom of the barrel “Alex Jones territory” as others pointed out.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
But why not wait until the story is clear before making some vague, general statement that some members of the military “may have acted heroically”? It’s symptomatic of the Rush To Be First that is so prevalent among the 24-hour news organizations, and that was also responsible for CNN getting the recent Supreme Court healthcare decision wrong before they got it right, simply because they couldn’t take an extra ten minutes to read the summary properly.
It’s shitty journalism.
A friend just posted this on Facebook, and I wanted to share with you lot. The video clip is from Charlie Booker’s ‘Newswipe’ from March 25, 2009 and the article is from today’s New Statesman. The most interesting part is a (sadly, unidentified) forensic psychiatrist describing how NOT to report on a mass shooting, because to do otherwise can cause copycats.