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Originally Posted by ilovetv
I don't mean this as "taking the high road", but this is a mother and father's son, and so I don't view the shooter as a "monster" even though what he did was monstrously evil.
I would be pretty sure, from having known a couple of young, well-raised men who were fine until college age, and then schizophrenia reared its ugly head and murderous thoughts and actions of theirs have ruined the whole family's life, that this shooter had that happen, too.
I don't go to the movies much because of all the violent and sex-alluring stuff, but I would be okay going to TV theaters and others.
What I fear on the horizon is that theater entrances will be converted into the mess that entering a commercial airplane is.....having to take off your shoes, etc. and get body searched or x-rayed, which slows everybody down to a snail's pace and raises the cost of airport/airline operations.
They could drive the movie theaters into such aggravations and thus have to charge $60 per person to see a movie.....putting the theater operators out of business.
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Hopefully, that will not happen.
This also puts schizophrenics in a very bad light. I doubt if more than one in ten thousand schizophrenics become violent like James Holmes did, or even like say the man portrayed in the book and movie
A Beautiful Mind did. This is just a monster who tried to kill hundreds of people but had his plans thrawted by neighbors not trying to go into his apartment to turn off the noise he left blaring.
I also get the impression that Holmes' mother knew what her son was capable of from her statement made to the police that they had the right person.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/schi...ia_symptom.htm
"MYTH: People with schizophrenia are dangerous.
FACT: Although the delusional thoughts and hallucinations of schizophrenia sometimes lead to violent behavior, most people with schizophrenia are neither violent nor a danger to others." from above linked article about schizophrenia
This is a sociopath like Jack the Ripper who decided to kill through mass murder rather than through serial murder. I am sure whoever Jack the Ripper was also had a mother and father.