Shooting at Dark Knight Rises in Denver

[Buzzard7]

Psychotherapist friend of mine thinks someone might have missed a sign of his schizophrenia with a touch of psychosis. Only speculation but I would bet money on her diagnosis.

[MaSonZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuNDOQ3b-0&feature=player_embedded

tape from the dispatch through. Seen a couple comments about how they knew, maybe this will shed light. Being in EMS... I'm not sure what I would do.

[CAP1]

I dont. hes young so his purgatory, on earth at least, will be decades long

 edited, 'cause this thread scares me.......

[Beefcake]

that's odd? was it an emergency exit? those generally set off fire alarms automatically......

At a theater I used to work for the emergency exits led out to the parking lots. At the end of the movie we encouraged people to leave via the emergency exits so they got to their cars quicker and they didn't block the lobby which was full of people waiting for the next show. The emergency doors were connected to a small box in the concession stand which held lights indicating weather they were open or closed in each theater. However, the doors had to be closed tightly, even a slight crack with the door latched would trip the light so it became common to ignore them during busy times. Back then we only had to worry about people sneaking into a show though, not what happened here.

[cut67]

About 70 people have been shot is the final result I do believe.

[Plawranc]

People die. It happens. Sadly tragedies and people responsible for them, are just as inevitable.

However, that said, we can only mourn and reflect.

Our best course of action is to give the dead proper burials, serve justice upon the perpetrator and take precautions to reduce the chances of this happening again, however slight a reduction it is.

Pointless debating gets us nowhere, guns or not, this happens, and we must deal with it.

I'm not a religious man, but I will give what support I can for the victims of this dreadful event.
 

[cattb]

Curry1,
 Babies sleep alot. My wife and I took our daughter to a 10 pm movie when she was a few months old. Just because parents or parent has a baby does not mean they have to stay at home.

 Also if our daughter happen to wake with hunger pains, my wife just happen to bring some food for our daughter with her 

[icepac]

Maybe he went in earlier, duct taped the door striker like we used to do, and came back in.

[F22RaptorDude]

See Rule #4

[bj229r]

It's human nature to think EVERY bad thing in life can somehow have blame affixed to it, and be prevented in the future. History will attest that isn't likely

[guncrasher]

he went out the back door, prop it open then came back.  metal detectors woudnt have stopped him.


semp

[bj229r]

he went out the back door, prop it open then came back.  metal detectors woudnt have stopped him.


semp

Yet...in the near future, I bet every theater will have to get one

[MaSonZ]

Yet...in the near future, I bet every theater will have to get one

+1. Not to get political, but I wouldnt be surprised if this turns into something like 9/11 as far as security goes. Not nearly as large scale, but especially in larger cities searches and the sorts will become the norm im sure.

[Beefcake]

Yet...in the near future, I bet every theater will have to get one

And as a person that works in the movie theater business I can tell that this will destroy what's left the movie industry. Movie theaters already struggle to survive with high prices they have to pay for movies and rights. That $10 dollar ticket you pay for doesn't go to the theater, 90% of that goes the the distributor and movie studio, hence why concession prices are so high at theaters, that's their bread and butter. People are not going to come see a movie if they have to pass through airport security just to get in, and at the mom & pop theater I work for we don't have the money or staff to use those things.

This is a terrible, terrible tragedy, however, IMO the movie theater is not a fault in any way shape or form. I'm sick and tired of giving up freedom for fake safety.

[Widewing]

Yet...in the near future, I bet every theater will have to get one

Useless in this case... His weapons were stashed outside the theater in his car. Smuggling in two long arms in summer clothing would be an insurmountable problem. This nut job had everything outside. While the opening credits were running, he exited the emergency exit, rigged the latch to not latch (duck tape or a simple piece of cardboard will work), went to his car and got into his body armor. He then grabbed his weapons and smoke grenades and walked back in through the same, now unlocked door. Probably took him 20 minutes total. The depth of his planning is evident. This was not a momentary incidence of insanity. This evil bastige worked on this plan for months... Even if he was unable to get firearms, I have no doubt that he would have made and used IEDs as evidenced by his apartment. He really believes that he is the Joker...  Pity should not be expected.

Also, while you cannot legislate crazy, it's perfectly evident that our current popular culture contributed to his psychosis. Popular culture is teaching a generation that extreme violence is normal, and almost acceptable. Certainly, unavoidable. If we don't take stock of the prevailing culture and change it, things will only get worse, IMHO.

(edited typo)