Aurora: 12 Dead, 59 injuried in Shooting @ 12AM Showing of The Dark Knight
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pea.shooter
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Honestly, what I am surprised about (well not really given the bend of the media) is that just a few short days ago, some of the media was hailing a CCW permit holder as a hero for stopping armed robbers in an internet cafe, yet here, they are much stronger in suggesting that we need stricter gun laws. Ummm, where is the disconnect?
pea.shooter
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Also, has anyone seen more information about why the mother of the suspect was saying that they had the right guy (in referencing her son)? The only article I saw seemed to suggest it was almost as if she had a premonition, but seriously, what the heck did she know that she didn't share?
Listening to this... all I can say is "wow". That dispatcher had her hands full but she was calm and cool throughout...
And it appears that the first LEO on the scene made it there while this scumbag was still shooting.
pea.shooter
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Could not agree more. Either that or let him in a dark movie theater surrounded by our snipers in training who are instructed to randomly hit and miss, with all hits being non-life threatening. Then allow him to bleed to death.
LouisianaGuy
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The LEO's did a very good job of handling the situation IMHO....I can only imagine a LEO trying to make his way INTO the Theater at the Local RAVE here in BR, while hundreds are trying to get out....there are always officers posted at the entrance outside of the Rave's here but dont think they could really do much to help in a situation like this, no way they could get into a theater with people pouring out. This is why i am not caught with out my side arm in places like this.
Dont know how many of us have actually been shot while wearing a vest but i can tell you its not like in the movies where they take 3 in the chest and it doesnt even slow them down, one round even in this guys gear would at least slowed him up and maybe saved a life, more likley then not he would have then had to think "O Shi* some one is shooting back.
This would have been a VERY difficult situation for a CCer to even attempt to deal with.....Crowd, Smoke, Panic, No clear line of fire etc.....
I know as a general rule of thumb you want to put distance between you and your attacker when you can, but this would IMHO be one of those times in order to do right and help save lives that you would want to close the distance as fast as possible to eliminate any possible collaterial damage, and hope and pray that your training and mentality was superior to his.
Cant wait to see what the Media does with this one.....
Glad I got that 8lbs of powder and 1000 projectiles a few weeks back, cuz i feel a surge of Ammo buying and price hiking coming up
Dont know how many of us have actually been shot while wearing a vest but i can tell you its not like in the movies where they take 3 in the chest and it doesnt even slow them down, one round even in this guys gear would at least slowed him up and maybe saved a life, more likley then not he would have then had to think "O Shi* some one is shooting back.
This would have been a VERY difficult situation for a CCer to even attempt to deal with.....Crowd, Smoke, Panic, No clear line of fire etc.....
I know as a general rule of thumb you want to put distance between you and your attacker when you can, but this would IMHO be one of those times in order to do right and help save lives that you would want to close the distance as fast as possible to eliminate any possible collaterial damage, and hope and pray that your training and mentality was superior to his.
Cant wait to see what the Media does with this one.....
Glad I got that 8lbs of powder and 1000 projectiles a few weeks back, cuz i feel a surge of Ammo buying and price hiking coming up
Wow! I hadn't seen this many members in one thread since the great NOLACOP locked thread episode of 2010! 
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I've been reading comments here and elsewhere and want to make a few of my own.
100 FBI agents?
All that will do is slow down the investigation!
There are a lot of comments on FB and here about a ccw making a difference.
Maybe, but probably not unless that permit holder is well trained and has been in shooting situations before.
With all the people running and trying to get out, I doubt even a SWAT team could have gotten off a shot.
So all of you closet commandos posting about taking the shot, you would have been down on your bellies crawling for an exit.
Just like me.
I'm not stupid enough to engage an armored, heavily armed assailant with my LCP.
I see our President has flown back to the White House for this.
Why?
It's being handled by the locals along with some FBI interference.
Answer: He's making it political.
Hey ABC!
Good going identifying this guy as tea party.
You are all pathetic!
How's that retraction and apology going George?
A US Army Major a Ft. Hood goes on a killing spree and it is an "isolated incident."
No terrorist ties, no religious implications.
And this situation?
The media is killing themselves to prove a conspiracy.
The REAL issue here is those people killed and wounded and their families.
They need our prayers and their families' support.
.
100 FBI agents?
All that will do is slow down the investigation!
There are a lot of comments on FB and here about a ccw making a difference.
Maybe, but probably not unless that permit holder is well trained and has been in shooting situations before.
With all the people running and trying to get out, I doubt even a SWAT team could have gotten off a shot.
So all of you closet commandos posting about taking the shot, you would have been down on your bellies crawling for an exit.
Just like me.
I'm not stupid enough to engage an armored, heavily armed assailant with my LCP.
I see our President has flown back to the White House for this.
Why?
It's being handled by the locals along with some FBI interference.
Answer: He's making it political.
Hey ABC!
Good going identifying this guy as tea party.
You are all pathetic!
How's that retraction and apology going George?
A US Army Major a Ft. Hood goes on a killing spree and it is an "isolated incident."
No terrorist ties, no religious implications.
And this situation?
The media is killing themselves to prove a conspiracy.
The REAL issue here is those people killed and wounded and their families.
They need our prayers and their families' support.
.
Suspect was a former neuroscience Ph.D student.
Add this to all of the meticulous planning, how is it that one can say this evil creep didn't know EXACTLY what he was doing???
http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-student-photo-released-160848135.html
Add this to all of the meticulous planning, how is it that one can say this evil creep didn't know EXACTLY what he was doing???
http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-student-photo-released-160848135.html
Just wait until they declare him a Christian too and give him the power and authority to represent all Christians all b/c when they interview his Grandmother she said he went to church………....once a year for Easter....
It's done with EVERY group.
Pretty good short article that claims that gun laws are unlikely to be tightened after the shooting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ontrol-debate/2012/07/20/gJQA6qWpxW_blog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ontrol-debate/2012/07/20/gJQA6qWpxW_blog.html
