SHOOTING AT BATMAN PREMIERE IN DENVER, 10 DEAD AND MANY INJURED

10 people feared dead after The Dark Knight Rises shooting in Denver
Two gunmen are believed to have killed ten cinema-goers at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado, after opening fire and setting off tear gas.

The shooting took place at the premiere of the new Batman movie at the Century Theater in the Aurora Mall.
Reports from local radio describe a man in a gas mask opening fire in the cinema theatre and setting off what may have been a tear gas bomb.
It is understood the two gunmen, who were said to be wearing body armour, attacked separate midnight screenings of The Dark Knight Rises within the same cinema complex.
Up to 40 people are said to have been wounded. One of two suspected gunmen has been taken into police custody. The search continues to apprehend the other suspect.
Brenda Stuart, of 850 KOA Radio, said the victims were shot dead but that there may also have been an explosion.
Police are currently searching for a second explosive device at the cinema.
The gunmen are thought to have launched their attack just as trailers before the film had had finished. They launched tear gas and then in the confusion opened fire on movie fans.
It was reported that one of the gunmen fled the scene in a vehicle with tinted windows.
The attack happened in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Ms Stuart told Sky News: 'A lot of people thought the gunshots were part of the movie. Then bullets started flying.'
Aurora police spokeswoman Cassidee Carlson said: 'The scene is still very active and we have little information for release at this time.'
Nicole Williams, a spokeswoman at the Swedish Medical Centre in the town, said two people injured at the cinema had arrived at the hospital in critical condition.
Eyewitness Paul Otermat, who was in the cinema where one of the attacks took place, said the gunman came through the emergency exit, threw a tear gas canister and then opened fire.
'There were children at that show,' he told Sky News. 'It was really crazy. He just walked in pretty casually. He just started firing. We waited til there was a lull in the firing, then we crawled out of there.
'A lot of people just dropped to the floor, a lot of people made a mad dash to the exits.'

bb1 wrote:I just checked, and it seems Colorado has the death penalty. I am not getting into a debate about the death penalty, but assuming the killers are taken alive, they most certainly will get a bit more than 25 years in a nice, liberal Norwegian prison, as may happen with Breivik.

Pat Brown CNN: "teenage psychopaths get inspired by [video games] and want to make it real" describing Batman suspect, who is in his 20s

Criminal Profiler On MSNBC Compares Colorado Massacre To ‘How A Girl Plans For Her Wedding’

by Noah Rothman | 3:45 pm, July 20th, 2012

On MSNBC’s The Cycle, criminal profiler Pat Brown compared the preparation that goes into an atrocity like the mass murder in Colorado early Friday morning to how a girl plans for her wedding. She also compared mass killers like the Dark Knight shooter to an actor walking out on stage. Brown had appeared on CNN earlier on Friday and linked the violence in Colorado to the excessive playing of video games.

Brown said that she believed that killers like Norway’s Anders Brevik, Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Hassan and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh were psychopathic and had no political motives to their actions.

“Oklahoma City bombing – I mean, really was it against the government or really was it someone who just wanted to do something amazing,” asked Brown. “The Ft. Hood shooter – which some people think was a terrorist attack. I do not. I think he was just some midlife crisis guy who wanted to say ‘you’ve ignored me all these years. I’m going to go out and shoot all my mates. Oh, yeah, but ‘Allahu Akbar.’ Ha. I’m really a terrorist.”

When Krystal Ball asked about the amount of attention an aspiring mass killer pays to those who have already committed mass killings in the past, Brown compared the level of preparation that goes into planning an attack of the magnitude of the Colorado shooting to a wedding.

She said that aspiring mass murders spend a lot of time fantasizing about the event and planning out the particulars. “You know what it is – it’s kind of a strange comparison – but it’s like a wedding,” said Brown.

“You know how a girl plans for her wedding,” asked Brown. “Oh, my God. All year long, she looks at all the wedding books. She gets all the clothing done. She looks at all the venues she can go to – how she walks down the aisle. She probably goes and watches all those wedding programs on television. So, she really fantasizes about this until the big day comes. This is all this guy is doing. It’s his own little wedding with the world.

Continuing with the analogy, Ball asked Brown for her impression of how calm the alleged shooter, James Holmes, was reported to be and asked if it is common for a shooter to be that calm whereas a bride tends not to be calm.

“Theoretically, most brides are not psychopaths, but I’ll bettcha your psychopathic brides can walk down the aisle just like this,” said Brown mimicking a thousand yard stare and laughing. She also compared the killer to an actor walking out on stage.

bb1 wrote:There's a very unpleasant undertone to that, IMO, LL - she is almost admiring the act. She certainly trivialises what these killers do.

A similar thought struck me when I was reading Tony's blog:

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/if-i-watch-hardys-video.html

with Spudgun 'snap your neck' Hardy revealing that obscene scenarios play in his head.

I suspect a lot of the haters are borderline sociopaths, or are capable of carrying out atrocities against a world that isn't interested in them.


“Theoretically, most brides are not psychopaths, but I’ll bettcha your psychopathic brides can walk down the aisle just like this,” said Brown mimicking a thousand yard stare and laughing.

She's totally off her head, coming out with offensive and sick crap like that.