Agree wholeheartedly. A simple whitepages.com search in Aurora shows 2 James Holmes with landlines and very few people in their 20's even have landlines in today's cellphone society. And young people tend to move around quite a bit, not being homeowners. Making the Hell's Canyon-sized leap to the Tea Party or gun ownership as the cause of the mass murder shows a total lack of journalistic integrity and a mind-boggling ignorance of the causes of mental illness.
But seriously - what's with Colorado? Spare me the Michael Moore Lockheed bullshit. There's something else going on there.....It's interesting that both the Columbine and Theater incident involved nerdy white guys that were essentially playing make believe. Trench Coat Mafia? A dude in a riot helmet, kevlar and tear gas canisters? So strange.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/showbiz/movies/dark-knight-shooting-film/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Youtube is starting to delete the trailers for "Gangster Squad" from their website because of the similar theater shooting in the film. However there are a few trailers on youtub that still have the trailer.
What's so fucked is that DKR would have probably grossed one of the biggest opening weekends ever. Now it's faced with being the reason our entire country has to re-evaluate itself and what is considered safe and what isn't. Sucks.
Over 860 people have died today (40 minutes) of starvation today. Death always sucks. Talking about a movie or anything else takes nothing away from that.
Was wondering the same thing. Hearing from the older folk, Colorado sounds like a peaceful and gorgeous place to live or retire to. But it's odd that both of these shootings came from young adults. Makes me wonder if it is just too much of a boring place for a kid with a weak mind to grow up in.
If you have never read Columbine, I highly recommend it. It's very thoroughly researched and gives you a taste of how the media twists stories and the motives for Eric and Dylan to murder their classmates and teachers. Basically Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was depressed and suicidal and saw the Columbine massacre as a way to end his life. Mental illness is the only way to explain these kinds of actions.
Here is a little snippet of what Marylin Manson wrote after Columbine, it still relates to this: Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? by Marilyn Manson It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world's most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon -- the blueprint for celebrity. Unfortunately, for all of their inspiring morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. A lot of people forget or never realize that I started my band as a criticism of these very issues of despair and hypocrisy. The name Marilyn Manson has never celebrated the sad fact that America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. They just created two new ones when they plastered those dipshits Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' pictures on the front of every newspaper. Don't be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols.
I think for Eric, a true sociopath, he must have not had attachment as a young infant. For Dylan, who knows.
This rhyme always spoke to me. I liked this part of the Marilyn Manson interview during Bowling for Columbine
Over the years we have paid less and less attention to mental health and clinics/institutions and such. States and the feds have focused money more and more away from it and towards other things.
