DARK KNIGHT premiere... DEADLY shootings 14 dead many injured in Co.

Just awful.

tiny, your first link is for another shooting at a church back in April. Unless I'm missing something I don't think it's the same guy who shot up the theater.

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YEAH, i THINK SO...i'LL FIX IT,

This is beyond awful. The fact that they all thought it was part of the movie experience at first.... just awful. My thoughts and prayers are with them and their families!

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Terrible news to wake up to.

Once again, a perfect illustration of why we need better gun control laws in this country.

Also, once again, Aaron Sorkin nailed it back when he was writing The West Wing. Two fantastic clips, one with the brilliant Allison Janney, the other the remarkable Richard Schiff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVnVhYxS0Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFIYLimyRHU

Gun control isn't the problem. American disrespect for and devaluation of others is.

agreed

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"Gun control isn't the problem. American disrespect for and devaluation of others is."

I don't think that has anything to do with it because we will have to wait for more info but most likely this guy is just some crazy lunatic. You can't fix crazy.

Updated On: 7/20/12 at 09:21 AM

'Gun control isn't the problem. American disrespect for and devaluation of others is.'

Oh come on, how long are so many people in America going to ignore or brush over the fact that the US gun laws are absurd. Of course the gun laws are to blame, look around at every other civilised country at there gun related incidents, they are about 1 percent of what the US have.

I'm sick of hearing that 'well they are so many guns on the streets so banning them would do nothing', well every other country who banned them also had that same issue but in time the guns faded out.

American is supposed to be a leading country in the world, a country that many others look to, yet when it comes to the ridiculous gun laws there it might as well be a third world country.

f**k the rights to own guns, if other countries can do without and get along fine then why can't the US? I mean how many mass shootings have to happen until somebody does something. People are to blame of course for acts of violence, but take away the guns and then that number will plummet. America should have woke up after Columbine.....they did not, it should have woke up after Virginia Tech....it did not, will it wake up after this.....no.

This is not an anti America post, i LOVE America and find Americans some of the nicest people on the planet, and i know many of you agree that guns should be banned, but this just get's me so f*****g angry.

This subject matter has affected me for years, Columbine broke my heart and led me to write my play Rage, but days like this i fear that nothing will ever change.

The excuse that some make that 'we have the right to protect ourselves', please, get an alarm, use the police, that's what they are paid for. America is no different from the UK etc, we can do without so can you.

Forget your rights to own guns, what about these peoples lives to live?

Sorry for the rant but i am sat here crying again over these victims, and i am sick of crying about it each time.

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Yeah but let's stop making it SO F*CKING EASY FOR THEM!

I also read that a 3 month old was injured as well. Now why the hell is a 3 month old at a movie in the first place let alone a midnight movie.

'Many countries have guns available but don't experience the gun violence the US does.'

Tell me the countries that have the same lazy gun laws that the US do? Iraq, Iran? please tell me.

'Tragedies due to mental illness will never end. I'm for gun control but lunatics can always find another way.'

Jordan is right, why make it so easy? If someone walks in with a knife, machete etc they are not gonna cause a fraction of the deaths that guns do, they would be taken down far quicker. All countries have people with mental illness etc, but it's America where this repeatedly happens.

The US society is apparently a civilised society like the UK, France, Spain, Germany etc, it has f**k all to do with society.

In Colorado the gun law reads that people can carry a loaded weapon in a car as long as it's to protect themselves or their property............how f*****g stupid, beyond stupid.

WAKE UP!!!!

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Only Hoss and Little Joe need guns.