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Judy Goos hugging her daughter's friend, Isaiah Bow, as Terrell Wallin looks on outside Gateway High School - the spot where witnesses were brought for questioning after the shooting.
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A gas mask marked as evidence sits on the sidewalk outside the Century 16 movie theater.
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Tom Sullivan embracing family members outside Gateway High School. He has been frantically searching for his son, Alex Sullivan, who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado on Friday.
Local authorities breaking the window to get inside the apartment of suspected killer James Holmes.
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A popcorn box lies on the ground outside the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
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The scene of the crime shortly after the shooting spree at the new Batman movie.
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Just two brief questions for the gun lobby today:
A lot of questions for the Mental Health lobby,fb!
Keith, Here is my brother's reaction to your post:
This by far the best, most accurate explanation for GOD that I have ever heard or read. God was the force that created all that is now energy and died. Birth was given and GOD became an a part of the natural forces. As to good and evil, it is a concept created by earthlinks which in the infinity of time has no real meaning. What is good and what is evil is an elusive principle established (usually by majority or might) to control others. If we are part of GOD then each individual has the authority to determine what is good and what is evil. God is dead but he lives in us.
The NRA would be a terrorist organization in any other country, except maybe Somalia
24 year old James Holmes would be a terrorist, even in Somalia, Buckey. And I doubt that he was a NRA member. If there had been some NRA members that were legally carrying concealed in the theater (or in the classrooms at Virginia Tech, for example, the possibility would be there that the guman's horrific toll of dead and injured would have been consederably reduced.
There is need to have a return to the pre 2005 law regarding high capacity magazines for semi-automatic pistols and rifles I believe, but not banning the citizens right to own shoyguns, rifles, and pistols and revolvers. We have come a long way in this country to tracking and barring the ability of a would be terrorist from gaining the means to do massive damage and cause high loss of life and grievous injuries by having unfettered access to explosives or the means to manufacture explosives since the Timothy McVeigh bombing of the Oklamoha City Federal building using nitrogen fertilizer and diesel fuel mixed, and ignited with a timed detonator., and yet the internet gives access to information on how to manufacture explosives from common household ingedients still. James Holmes, the gunman in Colorado, had apparently developed a store of explosives also. It is nearly impossible to stop a mentally deranged individual or homegrown terrorist intent on doing massive damage to what are "soft targets", places where crowds of common, ordinary citizens congregate. Most often, the citizens have to take it upon themselves to be alert to the first signs of danger, and it would behoove our citizenry to have the means of neutralizing the escalation of damage and mayhem that a deranged individual or homegrown terrorist might otherwise do before the police can respond.
I posted this thought at another site,(Care2) and I think it is something people should consider.
He took extraordinary measures to ensure he survived which doesn't seem to fit the norm for people that do this sort of thing. I have heard several news personalities say they don't want to use his name, They don't want to give him that satisfaction. Here is how I think it would be best dealt with.
Perhaps it would be best for people to realize that this animal wants nothing more than to live and witness the pain that he has caused. I would suggest that instead of all of the memorials and mourning, maybe the people of Colorado should sponsor spontaneous parties, celebrating those people that miraculously survived his terror. The mourning and grief can be dealt with in private. I guarantee you that the first thing he asks his lawyer is, what is happening out there, what are they saying about me. Imagine his disappointment if he finds out that there is open celebration in the streets because he failed.
He wore all that armor because he wanted to live and witness what he had done.
Timothy F Wood.
I can't speak for the victims' families etc. but how about also a celebration of the lives that he did take. They deserve it too.
Right now James Holmes is in solitary confinement and I doubt if he is reading the papers or watching TV. Family members now there, and his defense team and criminal psychiatrists and prosecution investigators are probably occupying most of his time is the most likely situation for this deranged murderer.
When are we going to replace "thoughts and prayers" with "laws and legislation"?