GUNMAN KILLS 12, WOUNDS 50 AT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES PREMIERE IN AURORA, COLORADO
COMMENT:
College dropout decides to do a 3 gun match on a bunch of innocent moviegoers at a midnight movie.
Innocent
Unarmed
Unsuspecting
Americans.
Holmes has now become the new poster child for gun control-remember also that Littleton isn't too far from there. Remember THAT?
This bastard aims a well-planned and executed attack on ordinary Americans-Americans already taxed and controlled and who now will bleat for even more control and pay more taxes and submit to more obedience training from psychopaths.
Expect a new push for gun control, but also expect a new front: tactical training will be banned for civilians. This motherfucker performed way too well without both marksmanship and tactical training.
Get your training, your DVDs, your weapons NOW. Buy with cash, leave out your name. Buy airsoft replicas of your weapons. Train in SECRET, you will now have enhanced scrutiny. Read "How To Start A Militia-And Get Away With It" and "Second American Revolution Victory Guide 2.0".
Don't forget: the enemy just loves a nut going off shooting random, innocent people, it drives the rest of the herd to embrace more slavery.
I also find it profound that Holmes chose the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises; a movie about Batman taking on Bane, a terrorist himself.
News article below:
James Holmes, 24, is seen in this undated handout picture released by The University of Colorado July 20, 2012. Holmes is the suspect in a shooting attack which killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, according to law enforcement officials. The University of Colorado Denver-Aschutz Medical Campus confirmed that Mr. James Holmes was in the process of withdrawing from the University of Colorado Denver's graduate program in neurosciences. REUTERS-The University of Colorado-Handout
By Keith Coffman and Stephanie Simon
AURORA, Colo. | Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:10pm EDT
(Reuters) - A gunman in a gas mask and body armor killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new "Batman" movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers.
Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, he wounded another 59 with gunfire during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a mall in the suburb of Aurora, which turned into a chaotic scene of bleeding victims, horrified screams and pleas of "I'm hit, help me," witnesses said.
The suspect, identified by police as James Eagan Holmes, 24, also booby-trapped his Aurora apartment with sophisticated explosives, creating a hazard for law-enforcement and bomb squad officers who swarmed to the scene.
Authorities evacuated five nearby buildings, and created a perimeter of several blocks.
Arriving on the scene within 90 seconds of the first emergency calls, officers immediately took the suspect into custody in the parking lot behind the cinema, where he surrendered without a fight, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.
The suspect was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a 12 gauge shotgun and a Glock .40 caliber handgun, Oates said. Police found an additional .40 gauge handgun in his car parked just outside the rear entrance to the cinema, Oates said.
Holmes is a University of Colorado medical school student who was in the process of dropping out of a graduate program in neurosciences, the university said in a statement.
His family issued a statement of sympathy for the victims and asked for privacy while they "process this information."
Holmes had only a speeding ticket on his criminal record and was dressed in black with a gas mask, ballistic helmet, vest, throat guard and crotch guard, Oates said.
The living room of the suspect's apartment was crisscrossed with trip wires connected to what appeared to be plastic bottles containing an unknown liquid, said Chris Henderson, Aurora's deputy fire chief. Authorities planned to detonate the suspected explosives with a robot, he said.
"The pictures are fairly disturbing. It looks very sophisticated, how it's booby-trapped. It could be a very long wait," Oates said.
SCENE OF BLOODY CHAOS
The gunman appeared at the front of the theater during the movie and released a canister which let out a hissing sound before gunfire erupted, police said.
"When we got out of the theater it was just chaos. There was this one guy on all fours, crawling. There was this girl spitting up blood," witness Donovan Tate told KCNC television. "There were bullet holes in some people's backs, some people's arms. There was this one guy who was stripped down to just his boxers. It looked like he was shot in the back or something. It was crazy."
Confusion reigned as shooting broke out during an action scene in the summer blockbuster, one of the more highly anticipated films of the year. The gunman may have blended in with other moviegoers who wore costumes as heroes and villains.
"He looked like he was in the military or like he was a SWAT person so he just kind of blended in with the chaos of the crowd. People thought he was probably like a cop or something," witness Jennifer Seeger told NBC's "Today."
Chandler Brannon, 25, who had been watching the movie with his girlfriend, said that about 20 minutes into the movie he saw a smoke bomb go off and heard what sounded like fireworks. He later realized they were a rapid volley of gunshots.
"I told my girlfriend to just play dead," he told Reuters. "All I could see was a silhouette."
SNIP
MEMORIES OF COLUMBINE
The shooting evoked memories of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, also a Denver suburb and 17 miles from Aurora, where two students opened fire and killed 12 students and a teacher.
Bodies of victims remained in the theater while the investigation continued with some 200 local police, 100 FBI investigators and 25 representatives of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on scene, officials said.
U.S. military personnel apparently were among the casualties but it was not immediately clear whether any were killed, the Defense Department said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-usa-shooting-denver-idUSBRE86J0AM20120720
