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Gunman kills twelve at theater in Aurora Colorado

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ChiTownBuffalo

Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
Witnesses are corroborating that it was a non-directed shooting. Was just spraying and shooting at targets of opportunity.
 
Well to be fair he doesn't know anyone involved in this shooting. Is this sad? incredibly, it breaks my goddamn heart when this happens but a person can't get upset over spoilers? Takes a horrible piece of scum to spoil a movie in a thread like this.
Crying about spoilers in a thread about people being murdered is childish, to put it kindly.

I have a lot of friends on Colorado right now, sent out some communication and they are all ok.

Skimming this thread, a lot of people need to grow up and get some perspective. Fucking Christ.
 

Coldsnap

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Feeling pretty bummed out and trying to get through the work day while thinking about this. I feel so bad for all the families that have to cope with this senseless acts. Next week we have a company outing to the I-Max theater to see Batman. I'm not sure if it would be right to go or maybe I should go and enjoy everything we have in respects to what the people lost.
 

ChiTownBuffalo

Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
They have not removed the victims from the theatre as of yet.
 

Dusk Golem

A 21st Century Rockefeller
I actually feel sorry for the madman
people are a product of their surroundings and he must have gone through some serious shit to do this kind of act

That doesn't justify shit, everyone makes a choice, and sympathy shouldn't be had for someone who opened fire into a movie theater that had children and completely innocent people in it. I don't care what tragic past you have, if you're doing shit like that as a way of 'release', you are a straight-out terrible person. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Just talked to my sister on the phone. Glad she is fine.

Hoping more people can find their loved ones that were in the incident. One of the worst feelings from personal experience is not knowing the fate of someone close during the chaos of these tragedies.
 
Stop posting, "stop posting" quotes with the god damn link in it! I think I have to check out of this thread for the rest of the day. It is making me more upset about all of this but for the wrong reasons.
 

EYEL1NER

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Mostly disorientation, burning of the eyes, respiratory issues. Mostly enough for him to cause people to do the natural thing, which is to get up and try to get out.
Well those are the intended effects, yeah.
But all the reports have said people are being treated for some kind of chemical reactions. The only treatment I know of is to walk it off. That is what I have had to do: walk around with snot dripping down to the ground and my eyes swollen shut.

If they are being treated, I'm assuming something worse than the regular burning in the face and eyes happened.
 

LowParry

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Wait, there's movie spoilers in this thread? Not to sound insensitive but why drive folks out of this thread?

I haven't seen any. I've just seen one person complaining about seeing spoilers while the event was unfolding early on. And if someone wants to spoil the movie for me to make them feel better, then by all means. I don't give a fuck. I care more about the families involved with the shooting.
 

rogue74

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What a terrible story.

You know after the 9/11 attacks, I always feared that instead of large scale operations we would be subjected to stuff like this. Shooting or bombs in packed theaters, subways, etc. Luckily it hasn't really happened here yet and this appears to be the work of a lone, disturbed person. Still, it shows how vulnerable we are in those settings. I go with my kids to the movies all the time :(

My sympathies go out to all those affected.
 

ChiTownBuffalo

Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
Mom is about to go on TV. From Rancho Penasquitos, which is a suburb north of San Diego CA. Unknown if Holmes is from SD.
 

Gaborn

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That doesn't justify shit, everyone makes a choice, and sympathy shouldn't be had for someone who opened fire into a movie theater that had children and completely innocent people in it. I don't care what tragic past you have, if you're doing shit like that as a way of 'release', you are a straight-out terrible person. No ifs, and, or butts. It's not like the theater full of people going to watch a movie have anything to do with you.

Yup, I feel sorry for people with mental health problems... who go and get help for them. Not for those who use those problems as an excuse for monstrous mass murders.
 

smr00

Banned
Crying about spoilers in a thread about people being murdered is childish, to put it kindly.

I have a lot of friends on Colorado right now, sent out some communication and they are all ok.

Skimming this thread, a lot of people need to grow up and get some perspective. Fucking Christ.
A movie was ruined for someone, he doesn't have a right to be pissed off? Yeah this is sad but the dude was pissed so get over it.

Why do i even come in threads like this? it's just filled with sanctimonious bullshit. People died and it's incredibly sad and i feel for the families and it's all ill say. I don't feel like getting in a dumbass debate with a gaffer today.
 
Just talked to my sister on the phone. Glad she is fine.
Thats good news, I'm sure its a huge relief
I actually feel sorry for the madman
people are a product of their surroundings and he must have gone through some serious shit to do this kind of act
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did you really just post t-
i'm done.
he has an anime avatar, do you think he's really all that well adjusted himself?

was it worth it?
 

Farooq

Banned
Police release any more information on the suspect?

Possible motive?

My heart goes out to the victims and their families.
 

hlhbk

Member
I actually feel sorry for the madman
people are a product of their surroundings and he must have gone through some serious shit to do this kind of act

You feel bad for the shooter???? Really????? I can tell you from experience your surroundings don't define you as a person, you do. Any other way of looking at it is making lame excuses.
 
What a terrible story.

You know after the 9/11 attacks, I always feared that instead of large scale operations we would be subjected to stuff like this. Shooting or bombs in packed theaters, subways, etc. Luckily it hasn't really happened here yet and this appears to be the work of a lone, disturbed person. Still, it shows how vulnerable we are in those settings. I go with my kids to the movies all the time :(

My sympathies go out to all those affected.

Its a isolated incident. Probably not going to happen again anytime soon.
 

I'm just trying to make sure that we aren't getting people confused.

Some people are saying Jessica Redfield was killed at the shooting but I'm also hearing about Jessica Ghawi. Are they two separate people or are some people claiming that Jessica Redfield was there (from Toronto) and it was really this Jessica who also happens to be in the same profession?

Sorry about the confusion, I'm just trying to get the details straightened out.
 

BFIB

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Apparently he offered "no resistance". So my guess is he wants to have his face plastered all over the news for attention.

Which is why that's the exact opposite of what they should do.
 

Wallach

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Well those are the intended effects, yeah.
But all the reports have said people are being treated for some kind of chemical reactions. The only treatment I know of is to walk it off. That is what I have had to do: walk around with snot dripping down to the ground and my eyes swollen shut.

If they are being treated, I'm assuming something worse than the regular burning in the face and eyes happened.

This stuff being released indoors is an entirely different can of worms to being released outside where it is usually employed. If you're stuck breathing it for a while not just your lungs but your stomach and mouth/throat will get royally fucked up.
 
A movie was ruined for someone, he doesn't have a right to be pissed off? Yeah this is sad but the dude was pissed so get over it.

Why do i even come in threads like this? it's just filled with sanctimonious bullshit. People died and it's incredibly sad and i feel for the families and it's all ill say. I don't feel like getting in a dumbass debate with a gaffer today.
Uh, I'm not mad so I don't have anything to "get over". And please.
 

Pandemic

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I'm just trying to make sure that we aren't getting people confused.

Some people are saying Jessica Redfield was killed at the shooting but I'm also hearing about Jessica Ghawi. Are they two separate people or are some people claiming that Jessica Redfield was there (from Toronto) and it was really this Jessica who also happens to be in the same profession?

Sorry about the confusion, I'm just trying to get the details straightened out.

Their the same people, I guess that's just her online username.
 
Again, I say, I wish a slow death upon him. Years in fact. I know I'm a bit terrible when it comes to death since I don't usually have a real reaction to it. I know people die, because that is what life is, and that is the world we live in. It's sad, but you learn to live with it. That said...the shit is beyond fucking outrageous when you shoot a little girl through the mouth, and another through the back. Fuck sympathy, and fuck being humane. I'm sorry, but that is and should always be grounds for severe punishment. I don't mean any disrespect to anyone that lost a life or was injured physically or mentally by this, but when you turn your cowardice wrath on female children of all things, any decency I would have had(likely very little anyway) just goes out the fucking window. How could you do that to a child?

My heart quite literally hurts thinking about that. Maybe it's because I was raised by a mother who was both a teacher and ran and ran a day care, so I've raised many a child myself. I realize I'm falling right into the type of feeling he was probably trying to inflict, but it's hard not to.

The real sad thing here is that I will be ok. I'm just upset and saddened. Someone out there lost a child to this bullshit though. Forever. Over nothing.
 
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qizah

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I don't know if this was posted, but one of the victims witnessed and survived the Toronto Eaton Centre (Mall) shooting last month and wrote a blog piece about how that day totally changed her life forever ... kinda eerie that this unfortunate event happened to her a month later.

It seems like all these violent gun crimes are happening lately from people under the age of 25 (Denzig shooting, Eaton Centre shooting and now the Auora shooting). I'm totally disgusted by the acts of these people.
 
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