The killer may have a helper; check cell phone and check phone record; go after his helper. His helper may be another real criminal that the Colorado people are looking for.

Who has helped the killer to get in from the back door when the movie is playing?

WOW! People are really having troubles mentally and taking it out on innocent. He looks so calm, just like George Zimmerman. A really innocent face, but deadly in the mind.

I am praying for all these people, Lord have mercy on the families.

Reading articles about the Colorado shooting and a number seem to insist on going back to Hollywood being responsible due to violence in films. Millions of people watch movies, play video games, etc, and they do not act violently. This was not an easily influenced teen. This guy was a med student. He graduated with a neuroscience degree. This was a messed up guy who decided he wanted to be famous. The premiere was a prime target because people were trapped in one spot. There was no space between them. It was dark. It could have just as easily been a concert, a sporting event, anything. Stop blaming Hollywood and video game creators and start taking responsibility for your children, friends, etc. His mother did an interview and said it did not surprise her that her son did the shooting. Seriously?

No surprise that the Brady Center will immediately capitalize on this horrific tragedy to further their own political ambitions. What a blatant disregard for the human condition. The bodies have scarcely cooled on the slab (heck, some reports indicate many of the bodies are still in the theater) and here comes the Brady Campaign to infer that all gun owners are dangerous psychopaths and that Colorado's government wasn't nanny enough to prevent the horror. Nanny-up, Colorado. The Brady Center told you to.

I wonder if this theatre will now ban firearms on their premises? Probably would not have prevented this tragedy. But, it will be interesting to see where this tragedy will lead the discussion in Colorado with Columbine being only 30 minutes away and a vivid memory.

People need to remember that several off duty military people were there as well. It's not the guns that kill people, it guns in the hands of people that have no business with weapons. If you take the guns away from law abiding citizens, you are left with criminals having all the weapons.

Otherwise, gun ownership is left in the hands of legislators and the feds...

Now if that's not scary, I don't know what is! The 2nd Amendment was intended as a final check of government authority, not an intention for evil people to have the means of killing innocent people.

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson

It is unlikely that the Founding Fathers would have been able to envision shotguns, assault rifles, handguns, and other modern-day artillery. If we have "the right to bear arms" for the reason it was intended, then let everyone have powder-loaded firearms. Good luck trying to shoot a large number of people in a very short time with those! Just try and take your little cannon somewhere without being noticed! Of course this isn't going to expunge the automatic weapons that are out there, but we HAVE TO start somewhere! We must start somewhere.

We need to have stricter gun-control laws in this country in order to prevent tragedies like this one.

Here's an article to start the discussion:

We need metal detectors in theatres i know prices may go up but we are living in a dangerous world. My heart goes out to the family of the 4month who survived injuries. I have a 4month old. I am not judging the parents but I would have never taken my baby to a midnight screening of batman and my husband love the franchise and were awaiting to see this movie. My best wishes and prayers go out to the families.

just as the problems with global warming, illegal immigration, the economy, politics, and on and on, the solution to the gun problem is no solution - we have these tragedys time after time and what do we do - light candles, pray for the victims, analyze the shooter, ad nasuem and what changes - only the date for the next massacre - it happens, we fight about what should be done for a few days but then are distracted with the next lindsay lohan misadventure or tom cruise's domestic problems - killings like this will eventually just be background noise just like reporting on the war in afghanistan

the only way this is related to zimmerman is for the fact all the drama is of him, his prayers came true..

just sayin..

American Terrorist on our soil, it's so sad my prayers to all the families effected to this coward animal White American Terrorist!!!!!

White Christian American Terrorist on Our soil ! My prayers for the families, this coward animal White American Christian Terrorist should be punish and not get away by pretending to be mentally insane.

The pain is so overwhelming, it is paralyzing my hope for you and your families is that you find the strength to endure this horrific tragedy. An through this dark time it is my prayer that those fighting for their lives and those recovering come through this Stormy time. For those that survived your hearts are heavy may you wonder but it is by the grace of God. Sending heartfelt prayers to you and your families be blessed.

This headline reads: "Tragedy in Colorado: 'We've had our share'"

So the question is: What are you going to do about it? More talk or something a little more concrete.

Lets execute all people, that are like this.

Bleeding hearts, say ( he's a human life)

so were the HUMANS , that were at the movie theatre.Their lives are NEVER coming back.

So in closing ,I say hang 'em high!!

Charge a small fee, you pay for the rope and have a designated tree.

The gutless wonder should have shot himself. Too bad he's going to be such a waste for taxpayers for years ahead.

There is no reason for anyone to own an assault rifle! You don't need that kind of weapon for self defense. That is only used for killing people. So how many more people will be killed and injured in Colorado before they pass stricter gun control laws?

You also don't need hundreds of rounds of ammunition! There should be a limit on how much ammunition you can buy and how many guns you can own. You can only shoot one gun at a time!

Colorado get your gun laws updated or we will continue to read about more people getting killed and injured from guns in your state.

Gun owners are more concerned about their rights than the rights of the people who were killed and injured.

Our 'share' hasn't started. The rejection of God's graces is so obvious with Christian enlightenment. Continue to reject Christ's salvation offer, continue to authorize same sex unions, continue to ignore the starving masses, continue to prohibit prayers at school, continue to war, swindle, lie, cheat & steal & continue to pretend men are good & the murders will remain a small, nearly insignificant part of horrors to come. Find the Bible Schools, enroll & accept the offer.

Its very simple, oxygen deprivation to the brain. Altitude causes horsepower losses in engines people are no different. Flatlanders can't handle the "RockyMountain High" this guy was marginal at best and then you move him into thin air, its a recipe for disaster.

I'm thinking that his rage all boils down to a sexual confusion or disdain from his parents, particularly his father. He is probably mentally unbalanced to begin with & it looks as though he was moved from a nice, comfortable home in San Diego to what looks like the rougher part of town in Aurrora, CO. The change of lifestyle, piled in with his internal rage to seek revenge against someone made this person a ticking time bomb in a place where the supplies were easily gathered.

People need to look at the real facts and see the over all picture.

Fact Sheet: Guns Save Lives

A. Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict

* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day.1 This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.2

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.3

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.4

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.5

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).6 And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."7

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year.8 Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."

B. Concealed carry laws help reduce crime

* Nationwide: one-half million self-defense uses. Every year, as many as one-half million citizens defend themselves with a firearm away from home.9

* Concealed carry laws are dropping crime rates across the country. A comprehensive national study determined in 1996 that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed firearms. The results of the study showed:

* States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%;10 and

* If those states not having concealed carry laws had adopted such laws in 1992, then approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and over 11,000 robberies would have been avoided yearly.11

* Vermont: one of the safest five states in the country. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission... without paying a fee... or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period. And yet for ten years in a row, Vermont has remained one of the top-five, safest states in the union -- having three times received the "Safest State Award."12

* Florida: concealed carry helps slash the murder rates in the state. In the fifteen years following the passage of Florida's concealed carry law in 1987, over 800,000 permits to carry firearms were issued to people in the state.13 FBI reports show that the homicide rate in Florida, which in 1987 was much higher than the national average, fell 52% during that 15-year period -- thus putting the Florida rate below the national average. 14

* Do firearms carry laws result in chaos? No. Consider the case of Florida. A citizen in the Sunshine State is far more likely to be attacked by an alligator than to be assaulted by a concealed carry holder.

1. During the first fifteen years that the Florida law was in effect, alligator attacks outpaced the number of crimes committed by carry holders by a 229 to 155 margin.

2. And even the 155 "crimes" committed by concealed carry permit holders are somewhat misleading as most of these infractions resulted from Floridians who accidentally carried their firearms into restricted areas, such as an airport.15

C. Criminals avoid armed citizens

* Kennesaw, GA. In 1982, this suburb of Atlanta passed a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in the house. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89% in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4% drop in Georgia as a whole.16

* Ten years later (1991), the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72% lower than it had been in 1981, before the law was passed.17

* Nationwide. Statistical comparisons with other countries show that burglars in the United States are far less apt to enter an occupied home than their foreign counterparts who live in countries where fewer civilians own firearms. Consider the following rates showing how often a homeowner is present when a burglar strikes:

* Homeowner occupancy rate in the gun control countries of Great Britain, Canada and Netherlands: 45% (average of the three countries); and,

* Homeowner occupancy rate in the United States: 12.7%.18

Rapes averted when women carry or use firearms for protection

* Orlando, FL. In 1966-67, the media highly publicized a safety course which taught Orlando women how to use guns. The result: Orlando's rape rate dropped 88% in 1967, whereas the rape rate remained constant in the rest of Florida and the nation.19

* Nationwide. In 1979, the Carter Justice Department found that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful.20

Justice Department study:

* 3/5 of felons polled agreed that "a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."21

* 74% of felons polled agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime."22

* 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."23

1 Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense With a Gun," 86 The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law, 1 (Fall 1995):164.
Dr. Kleck is a professor in the school of criminology and criminal justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He has researched extensively and published several essays on the gun control issue. His book, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, has become a widely cited source in the gun control debate. In fact, this book earned Dr. Kleck the prestigious American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang award for 1993. This award is given for the book published in the past two to three years that makes the most outstanding contribution to criminology.
Even those who don't like the conclusions Dr. Kleck reaches, cannot argue with his impeccable research and methodology. In "A Tribute to a View I Have Opposed," Marvin E. Wolfgang writes that, "What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clear-cut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator.... I have to admit my admiration for the care and caution expressed in this article and this research. Can it be true that about two million instances occur each year in which a gun was used as a defensive measure against crime? It is hard to believe. Yet, it is hard to challenge the data collected. We do not have contrary evidence." Wolfgang, "A Tribute to a View I Have Opposed," The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, at 188.
Wolfgang says there is no "contrary evidence." Indeed, there are more than a dozen national polls -- one of which was conducted by The Los Angeles Times -- that have found figures comparable to the Kleck-Gertz study. Even the Clinton Justice Department (through the National Institute of Justice) found there were as many as 1.5 million defensive users of firearms every year. See National Institute of Justice, "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms," Research in Brief (May 1997).
As for Dr. Kleck, readers of his materials may be interested to know that he is a member of the ACLU, Amnesty International USA, and Common Cause. He is not and has never been a member of or contributor to any advocacy group on either side of the gun control debate.
2 According to the National Safety Council, the total number of gun deaths (by accidents, suicides and homicides) account for less than 30,000 deaths per year. See Injury Facts, published yearly by the National Safety Council, Itasca, Illinois.
3Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime," at 173, 185.
4Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime," at 185.
5 Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms," NIJ Research in Brief (May 1997); available at on the internet. The finding of 1.5 million yearly self-defense cases did not sit well with the anti-gun bias of the study's authors, who attempted to explain why there could not possibly be one and a half million cases of self-defense every year. Nevertheless, the 1.5 million figure is consistent with a mountain of independent surveys showing similar figures. The sponsors of these studies -- nearly a dozen -- are quite varied, and include anti-gun organizations, news media organizations, governments and commercial polling firms. See also Kleck and Gertz, supra note 1, pp. 182-183.
6Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, (1991):111-116, 148.
7George F. Will, "Are We 'a Nation of Cowards'?," Newsweek (15 November 1993):93.
8Id. at 164, 185.
9Dr. Gary Kleck, interview with J. Neil Schulman, "Q and A: Guns, crime and self-defense," The Orange County Register (19 September 1993). In the interview with Schulman, Dr. Kleck reports on findings from a national survey which he and Dr. Marc Gertz conducted in Spring, 1993 -- a survey which findings were reported in Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime." br>10 One of the authors of the University of Chicago study reported on the study's findings in John R. Lott, Jr., "More Guns, Less Violent Crime," The Wall Street Journal (28 August 1996). See also John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns," University of Chicago (15 August 1996); and Lott, More Guns, Less Crime (1998, 2000).
11Lott and Mustard, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns."
12Kathleen O'Leary Morgan, Scott Morgan and Neal Quitno, "Rankings of States in Most Dangerous/Safest State Awards 1994 to 2003," Morgan Quitno Press (2004) at Morgan Quitno Press is an independent private research and publishing company which was founded in 1989. The company specializes in reference books and monthly reports that compare states and cities in several different subject areas. In the first 10 years in which they published their Safest State Award, Vermont has consistently remained one of the top five safest states.
13Memo by Jim Smith, Secretary of State, Florida Department of State, Division of Licensing, Concealed Weapons/Firearms License Statistical Report (October 1, 2002).
14Florida's murder rate was 11.4 per 100,000 in 1987, but only 5.5 in 2002. Compare Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Crime in the United States," Uniform Crime Reports, (1988): 7, 53; and FBI, (2003):19, 79.
15 John R. Lott, Jr., "Right to carry would disprove horror stories," Kansas City Star, (July 12, 2003).
16Gary Kleck, "Crime Control Through the Private Use of Armed Force," Social Problems 35 (February 1988):15.
17Compare Kleck, "Crime Control," at 15, and Chief Dwaine L. Wilson, City of Kennesaw Police Department, "Month to Month Statistics: 1991." (Residential burglary rates from 1981-1991 are based on statistics for the months of March - October.)
18Kleck, Point Blank, at 140.
19Kleck, "Crime Control," at 13.
20U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities (1979), p. 31.
21U.S., Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, "The Armed Criminal in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons," Research Report (July 1985): 27.