[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

With the actions of the Aurora, Colorado alleged deranged gunman, James Holmes, are you scared to go to the movie theater?

I have little or no fear going to the Villages' theaters about some nutjob getting violent, but what about other areas of the country?

Will you change your movie viewing habits because of this monster invading one of the last places in the US that has not seen a mass shooting of some kind?

No, No, No to answer the questions. I very rarely go to the movies but I would not change my viewing habits or give into this type of fear. IMHO

I believe no one can live happily in fear.

What a senseless tradgedy.

[784caroline]

What happened in Colorado was very sad but in my opinon it could happen in any place where a large crowd congregates.......so replace movie theatre with the Villages Square at Lake Sumter Landing or Spanish Springs on market night with a well known band playing or a major athletic event, or a place or worship???? Are you going to stop going......I dont think so....but dont for one moment believe it cannot happen in your own back yard. I am not sure what the answer is, but if we do stop our everyday life...these people, whoever they are, win !!

[NotGolfer]

Originally Posted by 784caroline

What happened in Colorado was very sad but in my opinon it could happen in any place where a large crowd congregates.......so replace movie theatre with the Villages Square at Lake Sumter Landing or Spanish Springs on market night with a well known band playing or a major athletic event, or a place or worship???? Are you going to stop going......I dont think so....but dont for one moment believe it cannot happen in your own back yard. I am not sure what the answer is, but if we do stop our everyday life...these people, whoever they are, win !!

I'm going to post what a friend posted elsewhere As the other poster said...this could have happened anywhere!!

"The media try to exploit a bad situation and turn it into their agenda (gun control). This has to do with mental illness and the change in behavior that was ignored. Very sad when you think his gift was wasted...very few have the aptitude for Neuroscience."

[Posh 08]

This is gun (out of) control. Three firearms purchased within 60 days. The sad part is that gun sales will spike for a while. Hopefully training will spike with that.

Seldom go to the movie houses with so many good options for movie viewing at home. We would not be fearful of going though because of this senseless slaughter. If Miss Sam and I were to "carry" ya'll would never know it.

[pooh]

Sadly, this sort of thing can happen anywhere and it has.


Some of world's worst mass shootings:

• July 20, 2012: At least 12 people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises."

• July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. A man arrested also is suspected in a blast earlier the same day in downtown Oslo that killed seven.

• April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.

• March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people — including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy — across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.

• Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.

• Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.

• April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

• April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.

• April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.

• April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.

• March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.

• Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.

• June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.

• Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.

• Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.

• July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.

• Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.

• July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.

• Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Posh 08

This is gun (out of) control. Three firearms purchased within 60 days. The sad part is that gun sales will spike for a while. Hopefully training will spike with that.

Seldom go to the movie houses with so many good options for movie viewing at home. We would not be fearful of going though because of this senseless slaughter. If Miss Sam and I were to "carry" ya'll would never know it.

And 6000 rounds of ammunition.

[Posh 08]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

And 6000 rounds of ammunition.

Precisely, and a 100 round drum magazine for the assault rifle.

[JoeC1947]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

And 6000 rounds of ammunition.

I have been and still am surprised that ammo can be purchased and delivered to your door over the internet. Isn't Ammo a hazmat thing?

I wonder what the outcome would have been if one of the theater goers were armed and actually knew how to shoot?

[billethkid]

If people get in their car every day without fear of losing their lives, then they most certainly have no fear of going to the movies or any other safe venue.

Is it because the media does not remind us every 35 seconds how dangerous it is and how likely we are to be maimed or killed each time we get in our cars.....we are so easily led by the nose.....fickle....gullible....and sometimes just dumb.

btk

[rubicon]

The media with their talking heads will over analyze this issue and introduce pundits with their psychological points of view. Others will fight over the gun issue and once they get all the capital they can drain from this story they will move onto the next juicy story.

The issue here is society's lack of dealing effectively with people suffering neuro-brain disorders. The psychiatric community is way behind in discovering effective treatments and often doctors misdiagnose disorders. Care workers are found far too often to abuse or ignore these patients. The police agencies are not properly trained and fail miserably in containing situations often actually exacerbating them..Families unable to cope toss these folks to the curb. Then we have the fine balance of civil rights vis a vis safety issues for the public.

In the city Geel Beligum people with neuro-brain disorders live with host families. If they need hospitalization then they are taken to the hospital treated and returned to their host families. Living normally along with Geel residents provides a stable and normal environment for people with mental disorders. As a society in same manner or way we need to deal with this societal problem and prhaps we can reduce some suffering

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by rubicon

The media with their talking heads will over analyze this issue and introduce pundits with their psychological points of view. Others will fight over the gun issue and once they get all the capital they can drain from this story they will move onto the next juicy story.

The issue here is society's lack of dealing effectively with people suffering neuro-brain disorders. The psychiatric community is way behind in discovering effective treatments and often doctors misdiagnose disorders. Care workers are found far too often to abuse or ignore these patients. The police agencies are not properly trained and fail miserably in containing situations often actually exacerbating them..Families unable to cope toss these folks to the curb. Then we have the fine balance of civil rights vis a vis safety issues for the public.

In the city Geel Beligum people with neuro-brain disorders live with host families. If they need hospitalization then they are taken to the hospital treated and returned to their host families. Living normally along with Geel residents provides a stable and normal environment for people with mental disorders. As a society in same manner or way we need to deal with this societal problem and prhaps we can reduce some suffering

Good thoughts, Rubicon.

Still do not see James Holmes as someone with a mental illness. He reminds me a little bit of Ted Bundy. Except that Ted Bundy had great social skills. I have never heard Ted Bundy described as having a mental illness. Both look like they knew exactly what they were doing and planned things out very carefully.

Some of these mass killers could have been stopped though if more people had tried to help them. http://ajas29.tripod.com/massbio.html

[courtyard]

Many people on the Net have reported:

"The terrible tragedy of Aurora Colorado is already being attributed to a government plot. The theory is that the Obama administration was behind it in order to create an anti-gun public outcry in order to provide the votes he needed to pass the UN Small Arms Treaty so he can take away our Second Amendment rights."

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by courtyard

Many people on the Net have reported:

"The terrible tragedy of Aurora Colorado is already being attributed to a government plot. The theory is that the Obama administration was behind it in order to create an anti-gun public outcry in order to provide the votes he needed to pass the UN Small Arms Treaty so he can take away our Second Amendment rights."

Why would you even repeat such trash??
Just because people reported it in the net, so what?
And who are these people you are quoting?

[courtyard]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Why would you even repeat such trash??
Just because people reported it in the net, so what?
And who are these people you are quoting?

Alex Jones at Infowars.com.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Good thoughts, Rubicon.

Still do not see James Holmes as someone with a mental illness. He reminds me a little bit of Ted Bundy. Except that Ted Bundy had great social skills. I have never heard Ted Bundy described as having a mental illness. Both look like they knew exactly what they were doing and planned things out very carefully.

Some of these mass killers could have been stopped though if more people had tried to help them. A History Of Madness - Serial Killers

I agree that's why I started out by citing the usual 24/7 news coverage. Reporters do more harm now than good. Good journalism is a thik of the past
Its all mostly tabloid stuff now. How can you allow the same amount of sound bites concerning the economy as you will about kardashian love life