Gunman Kills 12, Injures 40+ in Aurora, Colorado

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:45 am

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colora ... ?hpt=hp_t1

I hope Robb, Milker, and the rest of the Denver crew pirated the latest Batman film and were not at last night's showing.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:02 am

Yes! Let's please have a roll call!

Also, shouldn't this be in the movie base?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:22 am

Everyone I know is fine - so far.

Milker was working on his haunted house. I -- Jesus. I played pinball and arcade games all night.

You know how in detective novels, the wife of the dead guy doesn't want to admit to the cops that she couldn't have killed her husband because she was fucking some other guy? This isn't like that at all. But we were doing far nerdier things.

I don't want to imply that this was extremely close to me. If I were determined to see Batman at midnight, I think there would have been one or two closer movie theaters. But it IS too close for comfort. There was another shooting that was much closer to where I was, the "Jazz in the Park" fatality where the guy killed a cop.

(For that one, the gunman was still said to be roaming around, and I came to the realization that Melissa was out walking her new dog two blocks from where the killing happened.)

I haven't read any of the articles yet, just gotten text messages from Da King and Flack (thank you fellas - I do appreciate it). Flack mentioned fuckin' tear gas though?? Jesus Christ.

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:28 am

While I do hope the JC crew was too busy fixing Qix cabinets to attend this screening, its impossible for me to read the following from the article...

"Aurora, a Denver suburb, is about 13 miles from Littleton, Colorado -- site of the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

In that incident, two teenage students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, armed themselves with guns and bombs and opened fire inside the high school. They killed 13 people and wounding 23 others before killing themselves."

And stifle an inward groan. Trying to highlight a single, random act of violence as somehow even remotely connected to another one over a decade in the past, reeks of sensationalism and someone who failed journalism 101 (give us relevant information only, pal). So... Urgh to CNN for trying to make a shooting at a Batman movie relevant to my daily life and a double Urgh for relating it to another of the most overblown mass shootings in American history.

RetroR · Post by **RetroR** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:55 am

Further information (and a picture) from someone who attended the screening and was grazed by a bullet...

themurderator from reddit wrote:no one will believe me until i post the picture, but i was there and i was shot... well, grazed really. i'm doing all right just a little shook up. me and my girlfriend waited unrtil it seemed the shooting was finished so we were some of the last people out of the theatre and there was a lot of blood. i will do an AMA once i am out of the hospital.

RetroR · Post by **RetroR** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:09 am

Another post from someone else who was at the shooting..

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RetroR · Post by **RetroR** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:34 am

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Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:43 am

Glad to hear everybody is well and accounted for.

Normally when you hear of news like this, there's no way anyone I know would be there. Like, "terrorists attack naval ship" or "gunman opens fire at yoga/sauna" ... pretty good chance my people weren't there. But when it's (a) in a town where I know people and (b) at something like the midnight showing of a comic-based movie ... there's a chance someone I knew might be there.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:57 am

I asked my girl if she knew anyone affected but I haven't heard back yet. I mean, the thing is: I know like 12 people out here. She was born and raised in Colorado so there is a greater chance.

Marlow Stern · Post by **Marlow Stern** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:29 pm

"A monumental conclusion to the epic trilogy. Audiences will be blown away."

--Marlow Stern, assistant culture editor of Newsweek

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:40 pm

I have a pet theory that the overpopulation of humanity contributes to the senseless violence that is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. It is an attempt to lessen the social pressures by eliminating some of the population.

Again, it's only a theory.

THE
ARMCHAIR
PHILOSOPHER
AARDVARK

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:13 pm

AArdvark wrote:I have a pet theory that the overpopulation of humanity contributes to the senseless violence that is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. It is an attempt to lessen the social pressures by eliminating some of the population.

Again, it's only a theory.

THE
ARMCHAIR
PHILOSOPHER
AARDVARK

Reasonable theory. Happens in other animal populations as well.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:34 pm

So I get home and my wife and I are discussing the events. Our conversation goes like this.

Wife: Did you here what happend in Colorado
Me: yeah
Wife: omg it is so terrible
Me: Yeah some poor kid lost both his parents
Wife: aww that is so sad
Me: yeah his parents were two of the richest people in all of Denver, the father ran a huge corporation
Wife: Really?
Me: yeah, the kid will probably be a ward of the state to, no other family
Wife: that is so sad
Me: Good news is he might stay with the family butler, his name is Alfred
(pause).....
Wife- oh fuck you you asshole, (storms upstairs)

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:17 pm

See? now that is funny!

So Mrs.Lincoln, besides everything else, how was the play?

THE
HUMOR IN
EVERYTHING
AARDVARK

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:20 pm

OMG

Best (and in a sense, worst) of.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:23 pm

This is kinda gay but I like it.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:20 pm

AArdvark wrote:I have a pet theory that the overpopulation of humanity contributes to the senseless violence that is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. It is an attempt to lessen the social pressures by eliminating some of the population.

Again, it's only a theory.

THE
ARMCHAIR
PHILOSOPHER
AARDVARK

stop stealing my shit asswipe!

http://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB2/viewt ... ht=tsunami

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:37 am

From 2004? I have difficulty remembering what I posted last month, much less eight years ago.

(Claps hands twice)

OK people, that wasn't an original idea, it was just me recycling stuff through my swiss cheese brain.

But I call I get to have Alzheimer's FIRST!

THE
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AARDVARK

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:22 am

Will you visit him in prison?

http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tm ... im_tmz.pdf

milker · Post by **milker** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:55 am

I just now saw this post. Flack man, thanks for thinking of us Colorado crew. We be ok and have placed our bat signal in the air.

This has been interesting to see unfold. It does bother me a bit as what I do with the haunt house can very likely be a target of public concern after such senseless acts. This is a whole topic I could go off on for hours about.
When asked many times for interviews and such I always speack to how I feel the haunt is simply showing violence that our society thrives on. The guy in the hummer this morning who would not let me over after signaling for a mile would probably prefer to see me dead on the side of the road then helping him wash his hummer or helping pay the taxes for the road he is driving his large piece of shit on.

I can only hope that the "video games, movies, music, was the cause" drum machine does not start up with this one. I mean typically these things come down to 2 things, a gun and a brain both of which we seem to care very little about in our society. Our mental health as a nation is only getting worse and semi automatic guns are not just for war anymore. They are good for hunting people is what I just heard recently.

I guess this means I need to hire several more armed security guards this year :(

My questions is this, as a society doesn't it seem that our anger and care for life continues to decrease? Anger seems to be rampant. What caused this?