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12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado
beaverdownunder sends the sad news that a gunman opened fire on an audience watching the new Batman movie early this morning, killing 12 and wounding 50 others. The shooting took place in Aurora, Colorado, and the suspect was arrested by police.
"Witnesses told KUSA that the gunman kicked in an emergency exit door and threw a smoke bomb into the darkened theater before opening fire. One movie-goer, who was not identified, told KUSA the gunman was wearing a gas mask. Some people in the audience thought the thick smoke and gunfire was a special effect accompanying the movie, police and witnesses said."
impose strict laws like the rest of the first-world-west (even CH, which is strict, in the must-have-a-gun-direction) but this do-whatever-you-want-with-gunownership has got to slop
There was a right-wing nutjob on air (the fat one) saying that the character of Bain was calculated to make Romney look bad over the past week.
Just sayin'.
Just like there was a left-wing nutjob (Jon Stewart) who also compared the villain, Bain, to Romney's previous employer.
I don't know what you're talking about? This is clearly just a regular showing of the 4D version.
An "armed churchgoer" is not somehow orthogonal to "off-duty police officer." I am pretty sure that the people best trained in the use of lethal force are criminals and hobbyists; do you REALLY consider governmental bureaucratic organizations to be exceedingly competent?
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I agree fully. Who the hell those gubbermint stooges think they are to forbid me from owning canister of sarin, some landmines hidden all around my property (it is *mine* after all) and kg or two of enriched U235. I am free man and this is attack on my liberty!
Removing guns from society leaves a society of vulnerable people to the criminals with guns. With all the talk of rights infringement by the NSA on this site, I thought people here would hate the idea of losing yet another inalienable right. Surprisingly they seem all to ready to hand those rights away. No wonder the government gets away with what they do. No one cares...
Yet it is almost without exception, those who rave about the need for firearms who are the most gung-ho in favor of government surveillance, wars of aggression, freedom destroying drug laws, government intrusion into the womb warrantless spying on Americans and such similar rabidly anti-freedom legislation.
Were these cowardly traitors to believe a word of their own bullshit, they would have murdered Reagan and the Bushes who were directly responsible for most of the push to fascism in this country, instead they call everyone who stands against totalitarian fascism terrorist sympathizers. Oh until a black man gets elected and continues lockstep with the right wing extremist attack on freedom and then pretend that they weren't the driving force behind it. The goal? To elect even greater extremists to do the same damn thing.
So, please, save your deluded fascist propaganda.
I'm a home invasion victim.
I wanted to buy a gun after I found myself freaking out in certain situations. Certain situations like occupying my home.
The Muslim terrorists are right-wing nutjobs. They're the right wing of a different culture.
What's right wing about Muslim terrorists? Right wingers believe in individual freedom. Unlike left wingers, the right wing true freedom of religion as one of those freedoms (yes, even for Catholics who don't want to fund contraception). As far as I can tell, Muslim terrorists, like left-wingers, don't believe in true freedom of religion either.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.