Dark Knight Rises

[DinoDoc]

Maybe the solution is to have each theatre employ/deploy a few of these -

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More efforts at remembering the victims, Sparky?

[Dr Strangelove]

Some of the victim's families are suing Caremark because they didn't secure the exit door he entered the theater through. Evidently he had been in the theater earlier and had done something to the door to keep it from locking.

I have to admit, it would seem sensible for the theater to have some sort of sensor to detect if the door was closed and the lock engaged. People sneak into theaters also.

[Al B. Sure!]

Some of the victim's families are suing Caremark because they didn't secure the exit door he entered the theater through. Evidently he had been in the theater earlier and had done something to the door to keep it from locking.

Use something as a door stop?

[SlowwHand]

[DinoDoc]

I have to admit, it would seem sensible for the theater to have some sort of sensor to detect if the door was closed and the lock engaged. People sneak into theaters also.

Is his psychiatrist going to be a co-defendant?

EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack

AURORA, Colo. – James Holmes, the accused gunman in last Friday's midnight movie massacre in Colorado, mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the parcel sat unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com

Police and FBI agents were called to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Aurora on Monday morning after the psychiatrist, who is also a professor at the school, reported receiving a package believed to be from the suspect. Although that package turned out to be from someone else and harmless, a search of the Campus Services' mailroom turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes’ name in the return address, the source told FoxNews.com.

A second law enforcement source said authorities got a warrant from a county judge and took the package away Monday night. When it was opened, its chilling contents were revealed.

“Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people,” the source told FoxNews.com. “There were drawings of what he was going to do in it -- drawings and illustrations of the massacre."

Among the images shown in the spiral-bound notebook’s pages were gun-wielding stick figures blowing away other stick figures.

The source said the package had been in the mailroom since July 12, though another source who confirmed the discovery to FoxNews.com could not say if the package arrived prior to Friday's massacre. It was not clear why it had not been delivered to the psychiatrist. The notebook is now in possession of the FBI, sources told FoxNews.com.

Both sources said the intended recipient of Holmes’ notebook was a professor who also treated patients at the psychiatry outpatient facility, located in Building 500, where the first suspicious package was delivered. It could not be verified that the psychiatrist had had previous contact with Holmes, who was a dropout from the school’s neuroscience doctoral program and had studied various mental health issues and ailments as part of his curriculum.

Holmes is accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 at a midnight showing of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora.

University of Colorado spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said she was not aware of the contents of the package or who had sent it.

Agent Dave Joly, of the FBI’s Denver Division, declined to comment on the matter, citing a gag order issued Monday by Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester. Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers' office and Aurora police also could not comment due to the gag order.

Police believe the July 20 attack was meticulously planned. Holmes allegedly tossed tear gas canisters into the crowded theater, and then fired his 12-gauge shotgun at the ceiling before turning it on the crowd. As panicked movie watchers raced for the exits, he switched to a .40 Glock pistol and a .223 Smith & Wesson M&P semi-automatic with a high-capacity drum clip, sources told Fox News. The gun jammed, likely preventing far more deaths.

After the gun jammed, Holmes allegedly walked out of the theater through the door he'd entered and was removing his body armor beside his car when he was confronted by the officers who took him down, the source said, adding that the gunman seemed surprised authorities arrived so quickly.

Before mounting the horrific attack, Holmes allegedly booby-trapped his apartment and left music blasting, possibly to create a diversion that would occupy police and rescue personnel several miles away from the theater, the source said.

Fox News has learned that the door was wired with a booby-trap and a backup system that would have triggered an explosive designed to "cut in half" the first person through the door. After that, explosions and flames would have likely consumed the entire building, presumably with the intention of trapping other residents as they slept and forcing a massive response of police and rescue personnel.

Holmes, who made his first court appearance Monday and looked disoriented and disheveled, could face the death penalty.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/25...#ixzz21eySATSE

[Dr Strangelove]

From the looks of the video the robbers weren't interested in shooting anyone. Grandpa shot first. He doesn't seem to be a very good shot. I wonder if the robbers had been in a more malevolent mood how long Granpa would have survived and how many others would have been injured or killed.

[Al B. Sure!]

He's an idiot. His plan was predicated on first responders being taken out by the bomb in his apartment (kind of like the Norwegian shooter's plan) but no one called in a disturbance. Idiot should have called in the disturbance himself.

[DaShi]

Alpert won't make the same mistake.

[Al B. Sure!]

Michael Eric Dyson got sonned!

Michael Eric Dyson, guest host on MSNBC's Ed Show: Do you think that there should be a push for tighter gun laws given the horror that you just endured and how it has impacted you personally? Do you feel compelled to push for tighter gun laws?

Jordan Ghawi, brother of victim Jessica Ghawi: Here's the thing, we can try to politicize this and make some sort of polarizing debate and make this a tenet of the election, but that's not what we're here to do right now. We're here to celebrate the lives of the victims that have been lost.

If somebody wants to do harm to somebody, they're going to find a way to do it. Whether it be with a weapon, such as a rifle or whether it be with any sort of means we should actually start to think about why people are doing this. And the reason why they're doing this is because they want their names out there.

[Felch]

From the looks of the video the robbers weren't interested in shooting anyone. Grandpa shot first. He doesn't seem to be a very good shot. I wonder if the robbers had been in a more malevolent mood how long Granpa would have survived and how many others would have been injured or killed.

The robbers probably didn't want to shoot anybody. It's like how the Soviets didn't want war, they wanted the spoils of war. If that old man weren't ready and able to stand up for what's right, the bad guys would have robbed and terrorized those people. Instead the little ****s wound up in the hospital and are facing attempted robbery charges.

I normally can't stand old people, but old people who stand their ground like men are all right by me.

[Felch]

A bit of good news: CCPs in Maryland will be a lot easier to get next month.

[regexcellent]

Maryland is finally tasting freedom

Too bad New York won't be

[MrFun]

I don't understand why NRA tools don't move to a country like Somalia. No taxes, and guns of almost any type are easily available.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't understand why NRA tools don't move to a country like Somalia. No taxes, and guns of almost any type are easily available.

I don't know maybe they care about the rule of law?

[MrFun]

I don't know maybe they care about the rule of law?

Not if the whining bastards have to pay . . . gasp . . . TAXES!!

Cry me a river.