Evidently he rigged it to blow.....

Guns don't kill people, they just make it a whole lot easier.

Put the TSA at all theaters so we can be safe (sarcasm)

This guy was an OWS tool

Your source?

So, all the rest of you left-whinners out there, take a good look at your spawn.

What does this even mean?

Ak satin

If this young man was angered over the "Bane" name you can thank right wing guru Rush for that. How small of you to bring your hatred here after this tragedy. You are Sick!

You are a fool if you believe that!

@Elaine: could be he busted through the emergency exit or it was part of a premeditated act he did earlier.

Look at a world without guns before guns where made was it a utopia of goodness. Think of the Vikings the Mongols and so many others the facts tell the truth even if only the police had guns how fast can they get there 5 mins 10 mins or in Detroits case 9 hours the physically strong would rule over the weak the young the old the women no offence and any one sick or not as strong as the bad group or one person that attacks them guns make the strong stronger but guns make the weak just as strong
God made men but Guns make them equal

How are we going to defend ourselves from criminals with assault rifles without assault rifles of our own? Because even if they are "banned" there are still millions and millions out there that will never get confiscated...

Yeah, cause if we ban assault rifles, no way would he be able to get one illegally, right?

What!?! Ban more weapons?

One is retarded if you truly believe that will solve anything and shows the glorious lack of critical thinking. You can take away all the guns in the USA and they will still kill. Anybody with any sort of basic chemistry classes under the belt can make nerve gases with standard household products found in 99% of our homes among many other things everywhere!!!

As an Army Vet I love to fire assault rifles and I have used other firearms that no civilian will ever have a chance to even touch in there entire lifetime thanks to crazy laws in place and less as times goes on as more items get banned. Its not fair for those of us that use it legally and really enjoy to shoot.

Its the person behind the weapon that needs to be called into question, not the weapon/tool he/she is using. Rifles, weapons, cars, knifes, shovels, hammers, etc.... are mindless tools. Its the crazy nut job who wants to kill that is the threat. The whole gun ban argument is invalid however somehow it still rages among the idiots.....

Oh some facts for you, the vast majority of crimes committed with weapons are committed by illegal gun-owners.

Another fun fact for you, area's with higher legal gun-owners have statistical proof that crime levels are far lower in areas with strict anti firearms laws.

Logic and Facts > Gut reaction and Stupidity

here' s a fun fact, if that guy would have had a revolver in his hand instead of an assault weapon 11 of those 14 kids would still probably be alive. Now, you can raise the semantics that it isnt actually a FACT but conjecture but your statistical source will bear out that that killer would have had much less chance of killing that many people withoutthe weapon he had and this guy was a medical student who just flunked out. he wasnt a career felon. The reason they are dead today is the availabity of a weapon like that to anyone.

Your suggestion that a hammer or shovel or a car or actually successfully creating a gas bomb that would explode and kill those people is a long shot.the critical thinking you accuse others of lacking, you seriously lack yourself.

@elaine:

Read an article that the FBI said he brought a ticket and went in first time without weapons..then propped the exit door open slightly..left and can back with the weapons from the exit door.

Michael, he stopped to reload several times and no one did anything to stop him. So if he had used a revolver he still would have killed many people, just slower. Also look into speed loaders for revolvers.

If he used a shot gun, he could take out numerous people with all the buck shot; wouldn't even need the "assault" weapon. Criminals and crazy people will always be able to get guns, somehow. More sane people need to carry. One good shot at the beginning from someone in the audience and he would have been done.

Everybody thinks they are John Wayne with a pistol. The assailant was wearing full body armor: leg armor, groin armor, neck armor and a kevlar helmet. John Wayne also must shoot through the tear gas, which the armored assailant also was protected from. Further more once John Wayne #1 starts firing, how is John Wayne #2 supposed to know who the assailant is? When John Wayne #3 and #4 enter the picture, all we have is 5 shooters in a theatre, 4 of which are blind and choking.

Yeah, everybody thinks they are John Wayne with a pistol.

Amminadab- it was a theater, dispersal rate of tear gas is not that great and only a small are would have been effected. (army experience). The body armor he was wearing does not stop most bullets, .22 at most since he was wearing flack material. Even IF it was able to stop the round, it would knock him on his ass. People like yourself like to think any gun wielding person is a complete idiot and will whip out firing like "john Wayne" when in fact they don't. Legal gun owners are well aware of the laws that govern the conceal carry what risked are involved when/if we have to pull our arms. Know what will happen when police arrive, what we are suppose to do when LE arrive, and proper rules of engagement. All things required to learn and test out before you can get a conceal carry. Your "John Wayne" would not happen and has not happened.

Love sofa firearms professionals....

Oh and Mike, where are your facts? A revolver is far more accurate!!! The guy never reloaded, dropped guns as he ran out. "Oh its so hard to load a revolver!!" BS, its called speed loaders, take the same time to reload. Fact. And the last line you are trying to dispell did not prove anything other than your own short sighted views without any logic. Sorry try again with facts.

i agree.he kill 12 people including kids!!!

Apparently, he sat for the beginning of the movie, left through the door and propped it open. Such a sick tragedy, guy deserves to be locked up for life.

Surely you can get more creative than that? Over too quickly.

Doesnt need to be the head. He has extremities.

He may have just wanted to get all the attention he is getting. To discourage more of these, the press should concentrate on the victims and not make the gunman the headline news where ever you go!

Just to clarify one thing. Assault rifles don't kill anyone. People , its the hands that hold the weapon and the decision they make makes them respond to what they do.

while that is true an assault rifle can rattle off 200 shells very quickly. The person could be taken down on a reload or because of his inability to spray shells all over the room in 3 seconds flat. That is the argument, not to stop anyone from owning a gun but if the sole purpose of a weapon is to kill many quickly, and there is no other purpose for it, why allow them?

Let's take an extreme example. If we should all be able to carry guns then why not a tank? you should have the right to own and drive around a sherman tank if you want right? Free country. the problem is, there is no use for a tank other than to take over a city. And when a nut case gets ahold of one, the entire country sheriffs department cannot keep him from killing one of your kids.

Michael, you seem to have very incorrect ideas about what a legal "assault" rifle is. First of all, this guy purchased all of his weapons legally here in CO in May and June of this year (this has been confirmed by law enforcement and is a fact you can easily check up on). A legally issued AR-15 (which is the "assault" rifle the man used--again, a verified fact) is NOT an automatic weapon and has a clip that holds 15 bullets. It's possible that he purchased a 30 round clip (which is illegal in the city and county of Denver, so he would have had to have bought it elsewhere in the state/suburbs). Because these AR-15 ARE NOT automatics, you have to squeeze the trigger for EACH round to be fired. This is not a weapon that can "rattle off 200 shells" as you claim. A person shooting an AR-15 also cannot "spray shells all over the room in 3 seconds flat", as you assert. You watch way too many movies. The only reason these are even called "assault" rifles by the media and all the anti-gun folks (yourself included) is because there are automatic versions of the weapon (they're ILLEGAL by the way, and that's not what this shooter had) that release 2-3 bullets per trigger squeeze and any type of label that can make something sound worse than it is is right up your alley and that of the media. However, even the automatic versions are still limited to a 30 round clip at most. And just a reminder, because you seem to not understand this, automatic weapons are illegal and cannot be legally purchased. Since this guy's weapons were verified to have been purchased legally, it's pretty easy (for most of us) to see that HE DID NOT HAVE AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON.

Your hyperbole and wild descriptive terms, coupled with your obvious lack of knowledge of firearms highlights exactly what is wrong with your ilk. You all go wild describing things (INCORRECTLY, I might add) and throw in a bunch of conjecture and dramatization (like your idea about "carrying" tanks). Try having a decent, educated argument that isn't full of inaccuracies and straw-man fallacies. You might find people won't dismiss your words so quickly.

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Goldburg66

Give it a Rest...please. No one is going to take your woo bee.oops I meant guns away. Get your shorts out of its wad and go polish your NRA badge. This is Not about You!

Chirs: One of the most honorable ways to die. Now they can move onto a better place, knowing they lived full lives, and died honorably."

The 6 year old will be most comforted "knowing she lived a full life" and "died honorably" "by a gun"? SERIOUSLY?

I don't know about the afterlife, as I of course have not been. I do know the ones left behind would be comforted knowing the manner was honorable. There still would be the loss, I just feel some comfort could be sought.

Phew, you kinda need to crawl back under your rock. An "honorable" way for a 6 year old to die? You, sir/madam are a moron.

A little common sense here please. Honor has nothing to do with age. People of any age can do honorable things. I don't know why you think that age has anything to do with honor?

Now I gues that 6 year old, according to what you believe, will have 21 virgins at his disposal.

Your an idiot.

In spite of what you think, I was just pointing out, that their death was honorable, not that I know what they will get in the afterlife. History shows us that many cultures had great respect for those who die in battle. This might not have been a war, but all those who have died, did so with great honor. An honor most of us will unfortunitly never know. If that does not bring comfort to the survivors, I don't know what will.

So really, who is the idiot? I know it's not me. I call them like they are.

No, you are most definitely an idiot. How does being murdered while eating overpriced popcorn have anything to do with an honorable death? There is no honor in this situation whether you are the victim or the perpetrator. You really need to put down the bong and spend more time outside in the fresh air.

I don't do drugs, though I can't speak for the people replying here. People these days would not know honor if it feel out of the sky and hit them on the hear. It is honorable because of the manner in which they died. Nothing to do with the popcorn. What are you thinking? To die in a hail of gunfire is honorable no matter what way you slice it. This is something most of us will never have the oppertunity to have happen to us. Oh well, you just don't get it, and that's fine with me.

You're right....I don't get it, nobody could be as stupid as you profess to be by suggesting that being murdered by a lunatic is in any way an honorable way to die.....THERE'S NOTHING HONORABLE ABOUT BEING MURDERED!! I'm sure that all the people who died would much rather have their lives back then to have been "honorably" murdered by this wackjob.

Ya know, the thought just occurred to me that you must be a troll, just stirring up emotions by making blatantly foolish comments and I fell for it. At least I hope that's the case cuz if you really were to believe what you're saying than you deserve to be in the padded cell right next to the wackjob that created this tragedy. You should either be ashamed or committed and only you would know for sure.

Good riddance.

Give the guy a break. He is not an automaton, he is just a simple robot like the rest of us. Right?

Are you kidding??? Obama is the KING of scripts... He couldn't tell his own children to go to bed if it weren't written down...

Nothing that happened today is about politics. Even the canidates are giving it a break.

Why is Romney *making a statement* at all? He's not the president. He hasn't even been nominated yet & the way things are looking, might not be the nominee. I don't see a bunch of other *unemployed* folk getting to make statements to the press about nat'l tragedies. I don't see politicians elbowing ea other out of the way to issue a statement on this. Anything to get his face in front of a camera. Disgusting self-interest & nothing else. STFU.

Common Sense2004266???? I guess you have never seen Obama speak in public before? Obama ALWAYS has a speech written for him. Just saying, and now on to the victims, which is what we should be talking about.

I agree Super Sport 1966 and Mr Burns 100% with you.

Yeah, the USA is much more dangerous than Mexico, right??

Get ready for more. Our system of capitalism has devalued the human life to the point that this type of occurance has become commonplace. Think about your priorities and your hypocritical way of justifying your own existance. I doubt most of you will ever get it but one thing you will understand is that there are more and more of these "crazies" going off all the time. Get used to it while you ignorantly ponder how someone could do something like this. You should all join the military, deploy to some other @!$%#ed up country, then come back here and just try not to be pissed off beyond all recognition. You will begin to understand that there is no reciprocity, no justice, etc. Just @!$%#ed up humans everywhere you go. I don't think these people are crazy at all. Whether they are military or not they are just pissed of beyond all recognition and have no hope for any type of salvation. When you believe you have nothing more to lose and have no hope or reason to live, and have a beef of some sort, what the hell do you ignorant @!$%#s think is going to happen next. Get ready for more, as if you don't know where this kind of behavior comes from. Your grandparents could tell you how this @!$%# comes to fruition. Gun arguments, give me a @!$%#ing break you stupid @!$%#s.

Agree with the hanging, but no admission - make it mandatory. Just maybe, some of the other insanes might get a little idea that this is not a fun way to die. Would it stop them? Who knows, couldn't hurt (well, hope it hurts him like H).

By the way, does this animal look kind of "alternate"?

where is the Taliban when you need them...they know how to handle situations like this! no court trial no waste of time.. take his So rry a s s to a stadium where every one can watch and shoot him in the leg first, arms and kill him slowly..

that what I call the old western Soviet justice

Our government will never ban guns because we use them for protection. Even if you ban guns, criminals will always find a way to get/make guns. Also, how do you expect a weak person to fend off a bunch of strong attackers?

@Vlad Manttari - I only wish it were that easy. Unfortunately, if laws were passed that banned all guns it would create an odd imbalance of power. The fact is that the only people who obey the laws of the land are the same good people that would not commit robbery or murder. In an anti-gun society the only people that would be armed would be the criminals and the government. Personally, I find that to be a terribly frightening thought. I know of countries where that type of an arrangement exists and many citizens live in terror. It's a sad truth that there is no real-world way to control criminals. It's also a fact that the police can't be there all of the time. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. In the old west, where criminals could ride into town to murder, steal, and destroy, the townsfolk realized that no law would ever stop the bad guys. So, instead they armed themselves. A criminals worst fear is an armed victim. Criminals thrive on the ability to overpower their victims. When a potential victim is as powerful as a criminal it becomes a deterrent. Criminals want weak victims. At the very least, if a criminal attempts something like this in an armed group, there is potential that someone could stop it. Sadly, as it was in this horrible situation in Aurora, the assailant continued to fire into a crowd of helpless individuals. They had no chance of fighting back and that's what the criminal wanted. I am licensed in 37 states to carry a firearm, but I rarely do. In my state it is required by law that each license holder receive training. Incidences like this one have me reconsidering my stance on daily carry of my firearm. I have been trained. I am a good shot. If I could stop a man like this and save lives at the cost of my own life, I would do it. It's my duty as a trained civilian and as a Christian man to protect and defend. Guns aren't the problem. If this man could not have obtained a gun, I'm sure he would have used one of a dozen other ways to kill and injure. He is deeply disturbed. We need to focus on the mental health of our society. We need to strengthen our moral base and focus on instilling our children with a stronger character, unfaltering integrity, and a deep appreciation for life. That is how we prevent things like this from happening. If you remove a weapon, the intent to harm will still persevere. However, remove the intent to harm and nothing will be used as a weapon.

Yes, ban them and nobody will find a way, ever again, to get them and use them on the weak and defenseless. Have you lost your mind? Sorry, I asked a rhetorical question there.

Great idea, I bet if we ban drugs, no one will get them either.

Guns are banned in the UK. Now they just have a high rate of knife attacks instead. And occasionally a criminal pops up w/ a gun anyway. If someone wants to commit mayhem, they'll find a weapon.

Great idea, I bet if we ban drugs, no one will get them either.

Mimi, you're slayin' me w/ that one LOL

He would not have used a bomb, he would have used another KIND of gun. That is the point, not to ban guns but the idea that in the time frame of his bad mood, he was able to get ahold of a firearm that would kick out 200 shells in 30 seconds AND the power that these shells produce. Your more likely to survive a single 9 mm shot than a single shot from a high powered rifle. that's the issue. would 1, 2 or 3 people have died? Maybe, but not 14.

Your lack of firearms knowledge is astounding Michael. The bullet he fired out of theAR-15 is of .223 caliber. That is not a high powered rifle round, but an intermidiate round. It is the standard issue caliber for the US military. It was chosen over bigger rounds because it's lighter so a soldier can carry more rounds by weight. The other reason it was chosen was that it does not produce enough energy to kill people with one shot. The idea behind this was that maiming an enemy soldier causes more soldiers to render aid, removing them from the fight. Your assertion that a 9mm does less damage than a .223 is flat out wrong. The shotgun he carried was probably the most effective killer out of his arsenal. With 00 buck shot you get nine .33 caliber steel balls per shell. Educate yourself before engaging in a debate next time.

uh wrong. He wouldnt have killed 14 people with a knife. Please, use your head. The argument isn't would he have killed 1 person, its the number of people he killed.

Michael, please use your head and realize these weapons are not legal to kill people in a theater, but to protect ourselves from a police or miliary take over of the country. If a coward uses them to walk into a theater and kill unarmed people it is only his fault.

Yea, understandable. Well, the best way to give, is to forgive. I hope the families can work on that, and so can the public. Hopefully he will get the help he needs, and only need a light sentence.

Rustyowls, this was a 24 year-old adult who lived in a different state than his mother and had no prior record. What was she supposed to do? Get him arrested for being a less than ideal son? I would rather hear her say "She wasn't surprised" than to hear her say, "My son wouldn't do this." She wasn't in denial about the events, for you to insinuate that there is anything she could have done is pretty baseless. We know nothing about her relationship with him yet and I strongly believe in tough love as a parent. It won't get through to everyone and some people are just beyond help. We need to stop placing blame on a million other factors just grasping sand for a cause. James Holmes is the cause and it isn't anyone elses fault. He did it, blame him. So you really think his mother 1,000 of miles away could stop him? Please. I'm sick of people saying that "we" are to blame also. Society isn't to blame, I am not to blame; humans are flawed and sometimes uncontrollable creatures.

Everybody thinks they are John Wayne with a pistol. The assailant was wearing full body armor: leg armor, groin armor, neck armor and a kevlar helmet. John Wayne also must shoot through the tear gas, which the armored assailant also was protected from. Further more once John Wayne #1 starts firing, how is John Wayne #2 supposed to know who the assailant is? When John Wayne #3 and #4 enter the picture, all we have is 5 shooters in a theatre, 4 of which are blind and choking.

Yeah, everybody thinks they are John Wayne with a pistol.