News of the day

What pisses me off more, is how much people have been looking forward to the premier of the new Batman movie, and that this guy knew exactly where and when he'd be to perform his acts. He had to have had this planned for weeks. I was on my way to see the movie myself when I found out about the Colorado incident. Really ruined my mood, and I may not have enjoyed the movie as much as I should have. Felt like crap all day today. The rain outside doesn't help.

Not to sound insensitive, as I do feel for those who suffered, but I'm also mad that this movie is now tainted. The Batman movies seems to bring some level of bad luck.

This headline pisses me off more, because reporters are trying to tie in the movie with the shooter's motivations or whatnot. Batman, the movie, the comics, the producers, nothing, had anything to do with why the shooter did what he did, aside from him probably thinking, "a dark crowded movie theater in the middle of the night should do the trick."

Headline:
"James Holmes rises as a new 'Dark Knight' villain after Colorado shootings"

The suspect wore a mask and threw gas canisters similar to bane. This is some crazy stuff, he really thought it through. 

Still pales in comparison to whats been going on in Syria:

rushfan4 wrote: I think that there is a natural curiosity to try and know why he did it.  Will it turn out that his ex-girlfriend was at the movie and he was extracting revenge on her?  An article said that he was withdrawing from a doctorate program.  Was there a professor or fellow student that he didn't like that was there?  They haven't said anything about him ever working there or having been fired there, so that doesn't seem to be the issue.  Was he upset because he wanted to the see the movie at the midnight showing and wasn't able to get a ticket?  Did aliens or Barack Obama tell him to do it?  It really doesn't matter, and there are no valid reasons that could possibly justify what he did, but I think that there is still a natural curiosity to want to know.  And of course, there is a natural profit motive for all of the news networks to want to be the first to tell you every little detail about what they think that you want to know.

The T wrote: ^I'm not sure the victims' familis will agree it pales in comparison... Just as I expect those in Syria to be more concerned about their situation than what happened today in Colorado.

My point was we haven't really been paying attention to that situation and the government inflicted atrocities over there have ruined many more lives.

Good for her.

$703,873 Raised of $5,000 Goal

And as I understand it, she won't have to pay tax on it.

akamaisondufromage wrote: Its only natural to be more concerned with something that happens on your own doorstep.  I would be pretty concerned if we stopped paying attention to this kind of thing because it became such a regular occurance it seemed 'normal' and not newsworthy anymore.  It would be interesting to see how many column inches this story gathered without the Batman link. Anyway, I hear he recently bought 4 guns and 6000 round of ammunition.  This sound quite a lot to my ignorant mind?  I would think this kind of purchase would be picked up - or is this standard?

I know several people who own more than one gun. Some of them own five or six, some of them own ten or twelve and a couple of them own as many as eighteen or twenty. None of them ever bought more than one gun at a time. I do know one guy who bought four handguns in a two month period.

GaryB wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Its only natural to be more concerned with something that happens on your own doorstep.  I would be pretty concerned if we stopped paying attention to this kind of thing because it became such a regular occurance it seemed 'normal' and not newsworthy anymore.  It would be interesting to see how many column inches this story gathered without the Batman link. Anyway, I hear he recently bought 4 guns and 6000 round of ammunition.  This sound quite a lot to my ignorant mind?  I would think this kind of purchase would be picked up - or is this standard? I know several people who own more than one gun. Some of them own five or six, some of them own ten or twelve and a couple of them own as many as eighteen or twenty. None of them ever bought more than one gun at a time. I do know one guy who bought four handguns in a two month period. Since ammo comes in boxes of fifty rounds each I also doubt that he bought six thousand rounds at one time.