Actually the title probably says it all.
We are so not informed of much by our media (conservative and liberal) the one thing all of them have in common is that after a near presentation of the facts they rely on speculation and opinion rather than reason or research. They quote statistics like that is all the proof anyone needs without saying or revealing much about anything other than what their take is on something.
The result was seen today.
A PHD level medical student went out at midnight with homemade gas grenades, 3 to 4 firearms and body armor and gasmask and riot helmet and walked into a movei theater unchallenged and began pulling the trigger.
Apparently he didn't aim very much.
He did hit several people and kill and wounded them.
The theater was full- capacity would be over 100 people I suspect. As I remember Knoxville theaters seat 200-240 people in the larger houses. The walls are thick but not always made of stuff firmer than cinder block.
Is he a trained terrorist. Unlikely
Is he a deranged Comic book fan? Unlikely
Is he a deluded video game player? Unlikely
What he was according to what has been released so far was a Neuro-science major who was dropping out of school. He apparently was planning to go out with a lot of violence having booby trapped his apartment. He had to be pretty smart to have been able to get into a doctrate program.
Is this about anything other than a random act of violence? yes.
But it will be blamed on the liberals, video games, batman, bane, Obama, the NRA, comic books, junk food, hate crimes and probably Newt Gingrich (isn't it always about Newt?).
The truth is that we will never really know what it was about or why he chose what he did.
I Know from what I have seen is this.
The Media needs to stick to the facts.
The NYC Police Commissioner should keep his mouth shut until his PR people tell him it is safe to open it.
People need to remember that there are always other motives than the ones the press and politicians would have us believe them to be.
Holmes (the suspected shooter) showed us that very few of us watch people closely or take notice of odd behavior. He walked up to the theater, bought a ticket, then propped open an exit (that should have been monitored by the theater) to go get his weapons. This had to take some time.
The questions I would be asking would be:
What movie did he buy a ticket to?
Had he been at the theater before?
Why wasn't there a policeman at the theater?
Why did no one pick up on what had to be some odd acquisitions for a neuroscience major?
Where was out esteemed homeland security? They are supposed to be watch dogging for this exact kind of activity.
I mean this guy built at least 2 grenades, multiple bomb like devices, bought an odd assortment of weaponry for a private individual to own. Bought a bullet proof vest/flack jacket. neck and crotch armor, gas mask and riot helmet. If that did not raise alarm bells who else is out there buying explosives, weapons and armor?
I would describe this as an unholy mess that Homeland Security better step up and handle.
but probably won't.
Let me say this also. It is pointless to blame this on the NRA. They won't do anything but dig in deeper (if that is possible) and they aren't to blame other than the insane political agenda that SOME of them are pursuing. Guns don't Kill people, people using guns kill people. (get it straight).
As to the Victims of this HATE crime. (because that is the only thing I can accept that caused this- hatred of something by the Shooter.) There is no words of comfort I can say except that the human part of me wished that Holmes had not surrendered and been killed while being captured.
As a Christian, I must forgive hime for what he has done, but it will be very very hard to do so.
Which brings me to our buddy Rush.
Rush Limbuagh says so pretty stupid things. You would think that he might google them first before uttering them.
If he had bothered to goggle Bane for instance before going out and drawing a line between Bane and Bain (Romney's company) then he would know that Bane is a fictional creation of DC Comics for the Knightfall story line and was created in 1993 long before the current movie. Bane is also South American.
Bane is also about the lamest Super-villain DC Comics ever came up with.
Yes, he is almost as lame as the boney guy who "killed" Superman.
The new Bane looks more promising but the Original Bane was a 80 lb weakling transformed into a hulking behemoth by ODing on a drug derived from a jungle plant.
Oh yeah. He also showed up in the Batman & Robin movie as a bad afterthought.
Rush, please sit down and shut up.
Thanks.
And that is Life (as unfortuante as it has been today) according to me.
We are so not informed of much by our media (conservative and liberal) the one thing all of them have in common is that after a near presentation of the facts they rely on speculation and opinion rather than reason or research. They quote statistics like that is all the proof anyone needs without saying or revealing much about anything other than what their take is on something.
The result was seen today.
A PHD level medical student went out at midnight with homemade gas grenades, 3 to 4 firearms and body armor and gasmask and riot helmet and walked into a movei theater unchallenged and began pulling the trigger.
Apparently he didn't aim very much.
He did hit several people and kill and wounded them.
The theater was full- capacity would be over 100 people I suspect. As I remember Knoxville theaters seat 200-240 people in the larger houses. The walls are thick but not always made of stuff firmer than cinder block.
Is he a trained terrorist. Unlikely
Is he a deranged Comic book fan? Unlikely
Is he a deluded video game player? Unlikely
What he was according to what has been released so far was a Neuro-science major who was dropping out of school. He apparently was planning to go out with a lot of violence having booby trapped his apartment. He had to be pretty smart to have been able to get into a doctrate program.
Is this about anything other than a random act of violence? yes.
But it will be blamed on the liberals, video games, batman, bane, Obama, the NRA, comic books, junk food, hate crimes and probably Newt Gingrich (isn't it always about Newt?).
The truth is that we will never really know what it was about or why he chose what he did.
I Know from what I have seen is this.
The Media needs to stick to the facts.
The NYC Police Commissioner should keep his mouth shut until his PR people tell him it is safe to open it.
People need to remember that there are always other motives than the ones the press and politicians would have us believe them to be.
Holmes (the suspected shooter) showed us that very few of us watch people closely or take notice of odd behavior. He walked up to the theater, bought a ticket, then propped open an exit (that should have been monitored by the theater) to go get his weapons. This had to take some time.
The questions I would be asking would be:
What movie did he buy a ticket to?
Had he been at the theater before?
Why wasn't there a policeman at the theater?
Why did no one pick up on what had to be some odd acquisitions for a neuroscience major?
Where was out esteemed homeland security? They are supposed to be watch dogging for this exact kind of activity.
I mean this guy built at least 2 grenades, multiple bomb like devices, bought an odd assortment of weaponry for a private individual to own. Bought a bullet proof vest/flack jacket. neck and crotch armor, gas mask and riot helmet. If that did not raise alarm bells who else is out there buying explosives, weapons and armor?
I would describe this as an unholy mess that Homeland Security better step up and handle.
but probably won't.
Let me say this also. It is pointless to blame this on the NRA. They won't do anything but dig in deeper (if that is possible) and they aren't to blame other than the insane political agenda that SOME of them are pursuing. Guns don't Kill people, people using guns kill people. (get it straight).
As to the Victims of this HATE crime. (because that is the only thing I can accept that caused this- hatred of something by the Shooter.) There is no words of comfort I can say except that the human part of me wished that Holmes had not surrendered and been killed while being captured.
As a Christian, I must forgive hime for what he has done, but it will be very very hard to do so.
Which brings me to our buddy Rush.
Rush Limbuagh says so pretty stupid things. You would think that he might google them first before uttering them.
If he had bothered to goggle Bane for instance before going out and drawing a line between Bane and Bain (Romney's company) then he would know that Bane is a fictional creation of DC Comics for the Knightfall story line and was created in 1993 long before the current movie. Bane is also South American.
Bane is also about the lamest Super-villain DC Comics ever came up with.
Yes, he is almost as lame as the boney guy who "killed" Superman.
The new Bane looks more promising but the Original Bane was a 80 lb weakling transformed into a hulking behemoth by ODing on a drug derived from a jungle plant.
Oh yeah. He also showed up in the Batman & Robin movie as a bad afterthought.
Rush, please sit down and shut up.
Thanks.
And that is Life (as unfortuante as it has been today) according to me.
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