[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by courtyard

Alex Jones at Infowars.com.

That site could make your mind sick.....................

[asianthree]

after paying a small fortune to go to the movies and snacks, it has scared me to stay at home

[mermaid72]

Originally Posted by wendyquat

I'm with you! I'll be "flamed" for it but I believe if only one "properly trained" and armed concealed weapon carrier had been in that dark theater he could have "reduced" the damages by at least disabling the shooter! I've seen so much about gun control as a result of this! Don't "they" realize that evil doers will still get their weapons! Gun control would just leave honest people defenseless! Guns do not kill any more than spoons make people overweight!

A movie theater full of armed, albeit "properly trained" people? Each one believing that he will be the only one capable of saving the rest from murderous psychopaths? What a horrific situation. Who knows who is armed if all the guns are concealed?
Guns do kill people, as do bombs and knives and a million other weapons in the hands of wackos. Guns are weapons, period. They are specifically manufactured to kill or maim.
The crazed shooter in CO bought his weapons and bullets and chemical goods all legally. Assault weapons are legal.... Please tell me why an upstanding and honest and sane person needs an assault weapon? Please?
I just don't understand.
No one is taking your gun away, or your right to own one, put please how many more people does it take to die before weapons like these are banned?

I am not flaming anyone, and expect the same courtesy in return.

[MelZ]

Originally Posted by wendyquat

I'm with you! I'll be "flamed" for it but I believe if only one "properly trained" and armed concealed weapon carrier had been in that dark theater he could have "reduced" the damages by at least disabling the shooter! I've seen so much about gun control as a result of this! Don't "they" realize that evil doers will still get their weapons! Gun control would just leave honest people defenseless! Guns do not kill any more than spoons make people overweight!

Well Said

[Villages PL]

Perhaps those who are frightened should stay away from movies that feature excessive violence. It was said that schizohrenia could be involved; the gunman said he was the Joker. So it could be that this type of movie (with schizohrenia in it and excessive violence) is just what it takes to set off a mentally unbalanced person.

Personally, I don't like movies that feature excessive violence. I like comedy. So my movie going habit won't be changed.

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

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. Understanding Schizophrenia: Signs, Symptoms, and Causes

"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
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"AURORA, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado theater rampage was seeing a University of Colorado psychiatrist who studies schizophrenia, according to court records released Friday, indicating for the first time that university officials were familiar with James Holmes’s mental state."

Also, I know two sets of parents whose family members' lives have been destroyed for years because of their sons becoming schizophrenic and murderous around age 20. Both schizophrenic men (in different communities/states) have tried to kill their parents and neighbors in some of the most brutal ways imaginable (bullets would have been quicker, kinder, gentler). Most of the time they're quiet and docile, but that can't be counted on as "safe". It's an ongoing nightmare for the families.


Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes was seeing psychiatrist at university before massacre - The Washington Post

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

"AURORA, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado theater rampage was seeing a University of Colorado psychiatrist who studies schizophrenia, according to court records released Friday, indicating for the first time that university officials were familiar with James Holmes’s mental state."

Also, I know two sets of parents whose family members' lives have been destroyed for years because of their sons becoming schizophrenic and murderous around age 20. Both schizophrenic men (in different communities/states) have tried to kill their parents and neighbors in some of the most brutal ways imaginable (bullets would have been quicker, kinder, gentler). Most of the time they're quiet and docile, but that can't be counted on as "safe". It's an ongoing nightmare for the families.


Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes was seeing psychiatrist at university before massacre - The Washington Post

If you look at the literature on paranoid schizophrenia though most of the patients suffering from this mental disease are not violent, neither for themselves nor for others. http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=schizophrenia9


"Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects 2.4 million American adults over the age of 18. Although it affects men and women with equal frequency, schizophrenia most often appears in men in their late teens or early twenties, while it appears in women in their late twenties or early thirties. Finding the causes for schizophrenia proves to be difficult as the cause and course of the illness is unique for each person."

There are not 2.4 million people out there in the US committing suicide or harming other people due to paranoid schizophrenic rages.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/par...hrenia/DS00862
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizophrenia/DS00196
http://www.schizophrenia.com/family/faqindex.htm
http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/f...-schizophrenia

I just see James Holmes as an evil person who could not handle whatever was stressing him out in his life. From the news reports, it sounds like he sent those materials to a psychiatrist he knew would not get his package until after the The Dark Knight Rises premiere on July 20, 2012. He very carefully planned out the July 20, 2012 attack for months. These are not really the acts of someone who just suddenly goes off the deep end. What I am trying to say is that you cannot medicate away evil.