12 shot dead at in Aurora, Colorado

[Riot]

Now stories that his apartment is booby-trapped, cops can't get into it.

Glad the police caught him alive, because at least there is some small hope for the victims and their families to try and get an answer to, "why"?

[bigrun]

Wonder if clip lives anywhere near Aurora...Hope he is ok...

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Wonder if clip lives anywhere near Aurora...Hope he is ok...

I live very near Aurora and am OK, thank you for your concern. This is just miserable, I was traveling yesterday and unable to post from the jobsite.
My wife works for Denver Health in the hospital complex and they did amazing work there with the numbers of victims they had coming in. They had done a trauma simulation on Wednesday that was eerily similar to the actual events of Friday morning.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

I live very near Aurora and am OK, thank you for your concern. This is just miserable, I was traveling yesterday and unable to post from the jobsite.
My wife works for Denver Health in the hospital complex and they did amazing work there with the numbers of victims they had coming in. They had done a trauma simulation on Wednesday that was eerily similar to the actual events of Friday morning.

That is eerie, good work by hospital staff....glad to hear from you, you have had your share out there...the shooter lawyered up..by all accounts an excellent academic record..planned this for some time...makes no sense...

[somerfrost]

Guy was well armed and dressed entirely in body armor, I think they said 6000 rounds of ammo to go along with automatic weapons and tear gas/gas mask. Tragic beyond belief...another poster boy for the NRA.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Guy was well armed and dressed entirely in body armor, I think they said 6000 rounds of ammo to go along with automatic weapons and tear gas/gas mask. Tragic beyond belief...another poster boy for the NRA.

Bought the 3 guns couple of weeks ago at local shops...6K ammo rounds bought on line...No red flags? you can buy anthing on line?

Already talk of gun control...that will go no where..

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Bought the 3 guns couple of weeks ago at local shops...6K ammo rounds bought on line...[color="Red"]No red flags? you can buy anthing on line?[/COLOR]

Already talk of gun control...that will go no where..

yeah, pretty much. i remember a story a few years back about two kids who used their mothers credit card to buy a helicopter off ebay. not a model, a real helicopter-IIRC, it was a bell.

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Guy was well armed and dressed entirely in body armor, I think they said 6000 rounds of ammo to go along with automatic weapons and tear gas/gas mask. Tragic beyond belief...another poster boy for the NRA.

Don't be ridiculous. This is the one occasion where someone actually bought the weapons legally so now we need to prevent the law abiding citizens from getting weapons.
When will people figure out that if you make something illegal then ONLY criminals get to have, thus giving them an upper hand.
No one in the theater was carrying a gun because the theater has a no guns policy, one person ignored that and got to kill a bunch of defenseless people.
Be realistic.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec...ion/na-shoot11
She wasn't supposed to be armed as that was a gun free zone. Worked out pretty well though. At least give citizens a fighting chance.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Don't be ridiculous. This is the one occasion where someone actually bought the weapons legally so now we need to prevent the law abiding citizens from getting weapons.
When will people figure out that if you make something illegal then ONLY criminals get to have, thus giving them an upper hand.
No one in the theater was carrying a gun because the theater has a no guns policy, one person ignored that and got to kill a bunch of defenseless people.
Be realistic.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec...ion/na-shoot11
She wasn't supposed to be armed as that was a gun free zone. Worked out pretty well though. At least give citizens a fighting chance.

Worked out great except for the four people he killed and five he injured.

Nowhere in the article did it say the church was a gun-free zone. In fact, the pastor says at the end that security volunteers were legally able to carry firearms.

In fact, though the security guard injured him, the assailant killed himself:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3...1#.UAwuBRxiBwc

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Guy was well armed and dressed entirely in body armor, I think they said 6000 rounds of ammo to go along with automatic weapons and tear gas/gas mask. Tragic beyond belief...another poster boy for the NRA.

gun control would keep me from owning a weapon. that guy, he'd have found a way...


edit~ just saw this, on politicizing tragedy:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...e_tragedy.html

[kp319]

Originally Posted by Riot

Now stories that his apartment is booby-trapped, cops can't get into it.

Glad the police caught him alive, because at least there is some small hope for the victims and their families to try and get an answer to, "why"?

I'm sorry the cops didn't kill him.