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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."
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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'.
He could have at least dressed up as The Joker.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Just like there was a left-wing nutjob (Jon Stewart) who also compared the villain, Bain, to Romney's previous employer.
Re:Willing to bet it was a Muzzy, because they were watching the "caped crusader"
I don't know what you're talking about? This is clearly just a regular showing of the 4D version.
It is time that the manufacture of guns to be covered by legislation. There is no constitutional amendment about the right to manufacture fire arms.
You Americans cans still own them because of your archaic constitutional amendment they will just be much harder to get.
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Some are going to blame the shooting in Colorado on the Batman movie.
There are sick people in this world. If the Batman movie didn’t set them off, the barking dog next door would. Meaning: the movie isn’t the problem, it is the person who is sick in the head, you can’t blame videogames or movies or books.
The problem with my country, that I love but otherwise has some serious deep flaws: easy access to guns.
So thank you NRA, for another sale for the industry you lobby for.
And gun lovers, as far as I am concerned, this is blood on your hands.
A well-armed populace does not result in crazy people and gang bangers and hot heads being stopped. It just means more senseless death. You can't protect against a crazy person randomly and without warning firing on you. You aren't superhuman.
Giffords in gun happy Tucson was surrounded by well-armed people. So why wasn't she protected? Because you don't have omniscient powers and hair trigger reaction times and eyes in the back of your head: a crazy person is a complete surprise. Please drop the ridiculous myth that a gun is protection from these scenarios.
In another few months we will hear about this sort of thing again.
And occurrences like this are a lot rarer in other industrialized countries. Because they have sensible gun control laws.
Weep for my country, that is held hostage by gun lovers. And therefore so many innocents must die on a regular basis due their foolish and ignorant attitude towards easy access to guns.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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!
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.