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Rampage in Colorado Movie theater.

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SteveP said:
With all due respect to the victims, *** is someone doing taking a 4-month old baby to a midnight movie??? One of the victims was a youngster believed to be about 9. Same rage applies.
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Given that it's the middle of summer and it's freakin' Batman, I can understand a 9 year old. All the same: it's very odd.

I suppose I should add that ultimately this kind of bad parenting is a pittance compared to what Ser Dickbag did, but at worst these parents should be dealing with ridiculously crabby children and maybe a few complaints from fellow moviegoers. That they instead have to live through a dead child for no reason is just plain awful.
 
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MSNBC had a "former FBI profiler" who called the gunman "A Dark Trekkie."

And of course the new news is that he dyed his hair red "Like the Joker."

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Pretty clearly we don't need 24/7 news anymore because they're incapable of not making **** up.
 
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Kepler said:
Why can't everybody just concentrate on the lives lost and leave their moronic politics at the door for once?
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that's exactly what Old Pio said! Why would ABC news inject politics into the story in the first place??? :confused:
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Given that it's the middle of summer and it's freakin' Batman, I can understand a 9 year old. All the same: it's very odd.
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The movie is PG-13. I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm an old grizzled ex-cop who saw a lot of $hite in 21 years, but exposing a 9-year old to this type of movie/video game/rap video, etc. etc. leads to the desensitizing and lack of morality that creates the whack jobs like the med-school dropout that perpetrated this heinous crime. :mad:

As for ABC and Brian Ross - as a journalist for the better part of the past two decades - I'm outraged that they (and others) have injected their political biases into this horrific story WHILE THE BODIES ARE STILL WHERE THEY WERE GUNNED DOWNED!
 
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SteveP said:
The movie is PG-13. I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm an old grizzled ex-cop who saw a lot of $hite in 21 years, but exposing a 9-year old to this type of movie/video game/rap video, etc. etc. leads to the desensitizing and lack of morality that creates the whack jobs like the med-school dropout that perpetrated this heinous crime. :mad:
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If you are trying to say that violent movies should be banned, I will agree iwth you.
 
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TimP said:
If you are trying to say that violent movies should be banned, I will agree iwth you.
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Well now TimP, I think that kind of book-burning view is pushing it for a supposed liberal. My small kids aren't allowed to watch this stuff, but who gets to define "violent"? And you should know that art reflects culture and brings us to come to terms with it, it doesn't create culture.
 
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Well, the government should do more to protect people. The obvious solution is to ban guns, but still, something has to be done.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Given that it's the middle of summer and it's freakin' Batman, I can understand a 9 year old.
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I can't...it's a friggen midnight screening. I have no problem with a 9 year old seeing Batman - lord knows I saw plenty of pg13 and r-rated movies when I was 9. I do have a problem with kids going to screenings after about 9 pm or so.
 
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TimP said:
Well, the government should do more to protect people. The obvious solution is to ban guns, but still, something has to be done.
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I hear you man, but to be honest my biggest number one worry when this random-insane-guy crap happens is that the lawmakers (i.e. "jack-booted thugs") will think they have to "DO SOMETHING" to stop it without thinking things through.
 
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unofan said:
So anytime someone gets a cell phone call they're suspicious? Really?
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Anderson Cooper's facebook page (for what it's worth today) says that the guy himself went out the emergency door, propped it open slightly and then armored himself up with a bunch of body armor and then grabbed his guns and tear gas and came back inside. No accomplice.
 
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bronconick said:
Anderson Cooper's facebook page (for what it's worth today) says that the guy himself went out the emergency door, propped it open slightly and then armored himself up with a bunch of body armor and then grabbed his guns and tear gas and came back inside. No accomplice.
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That would have been my guess as to how it happened. Wouldnt be suprised to see some sort of alarm or something put on those exit doors in the near future.
 
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TimP said:
If you are trying to say that violent movies should be banned, I will agree iwth you.
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A friend of mine who's really into the comics posted on her facebook that The Dark Knight Returns had a similar part where a guy shoots up a movie theater. Why don't we ban comic books too? :rolleyes:
 
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geezer said:
I hear you man, but to be honest my biggest number one worry when this random-insane-guy crap happens is that the lawmakers (i.e. "jack-booted thugs") will think they have to "DO SOMETHING" to stop it without thinking things through.
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Krauthamer just made the point that our gun control laws are much tougher now than they were a generation ago, yet somehow crazies are still able to get the weapons and carry out their demonic plans. On the other hand, we've made it very tough to commit a nut case against their will. I don't have a problem with that. Except the occasional outbursts by a Loughner or a Holmes may be a price we pay. Would it have taken a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins to figure out that John Hinckley or Woo Tang Clan at Virginia Tech were as nutty as Aunt Tilly's pecan divinity? We are predisposed to err on the side of protecting the rights of the individual. And in the overwhelming majority of cases that's fitting and proper. Sometimes it's not.
 
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geezer said:
Well now TimP, I think that kind of book-burning view is pushing it for a supposed liberal. My small kids aren't allowed to watch this stuff, but who gets to define "violent"? And you should know that art reflects culture and brings us to come to terms with it, it doesn't create culture.
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correlation/causation
 
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TimP said:
If you are trying to say that violent movies should be banned, I will agree iwth you.
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Where did I say that violent movies should be banned? It's the liberalization of society and a lack of parental discipline that is literally killing society in North America.
 
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Old Pio said:
Krauthamer just made the point that our gun control laws are much tougher now than they were a generation ago, yet somehow crazies are still able to get the weapons and carry out their demonic plans. On the other hand, we've made it very tough to commit a nut case against their will. I don't have a problem with that. Except the occasional outbursts by a Loughner or a Holmes may be a price we pay. Would it have taken a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins to figure out that John Hinckley or Woo Tang Clan at Virginia Tech were as nutty as Aunt Tilly's pecan divinity? We are predisposed to err on the side of protecting the rights of the individual. And in the overwhelming majority of cases that's fitting and proper. Sometimes it's not.
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You and Dr. Krauthamer hit the nail on the head.
 
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SteveP said:
You and Dr. Krauthamer hit the nail on the head.
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Just about everyone in Tucson knew Loughner was nuts. Yet nothing was done. Everyone who came in contact with Woo Tang Clan at VTU knew he was nuts. Students were demanding that he be removed from classes. Nikki Giovanni, who delivered the moving "We are Virginia Tech" speech at the memorial service told administrators she wanted him out of her class. That either he goes or she goes. The chairman of the English department was essentially tutoring him. Nothing was done.
 
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