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Yes, I didn't want to mention it because

this sort of thing seems to unfortunately

happen all too often in America. It is

really tragic.

I was just reading about it.  What a horrific story.  How sad for the families of the victims. 

The movie goers thought it was a publicity stunt and part of the movie hoopla until the gunman opened fire.  The eye witness accounts are just terrifying.  A very sad day.

Easy, just walk in to a Batman movie at midnight with a gas mask on,bullet proof vest,rifle,handgun,teargas grenades.

Only in America.

Many theaters on opening nights, especially sci-fi, people like to dress the part, in the past people would dress like darth vadar, batman, Joker, you name it, they would carry plastic swords, guns and whatever as a joke.  I don't think this will continue from now on. many of the survivors thought at the beginning it was a 'put-on'.  Movie theaters today especially i-max is soooo loud that I don't even think that many even heard the gunshots.  And to ROMOS, it's not only in America, its worldwide. we have over 300 million people here, there bound to be a few crazy ones.

Now comes the 'I told you so' gun debate again.. It's not the gun's fault it killed no more than the car's fault it kills or the forks fault you may be overweight. it's always the user.  we have intense gun laws here in the states, problem is they are not enforced.  Not to add more laws.  Although I am not against guns entirely, I see no reason for high capacity magazines on assault rifles. The gun he used was an AR-15 which looks like an M-16 but not fully automatic. Still he was able to take out 12 and injure 31 (I believe)..  Guns are not the culpert, there are many ways to kill people, McVeigh used a truck and fertilizer, 9/11 it was box cutters and airplanes..

There something wrong with society, we are sick and need help. Movies with constant bloodshed, games with killings and brutal at that.. Some of these wackos can't separate cyberworld from real world and they thing they favorite celebrity actor dies in one movie he shows up in another, in games, kill-kill-kill and they 're-spawn' to be killed again.

I like killing games too and love action movies and horror but I have a handle on reality,like 'most' people-- these wackos people do not.. so, what do we do??. Stop making violent movies?? no games with killings??  You can bet this won't happen so you must find a way to identify the risk.. I don't see this technological advancement for many years

Colleen

Yes ROMOS, we have the right to bear arms. I will take it any day over not being able to defend myself. If there was a gun law in all the states that allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons, how many people do you think this nut would have killed before 50 people in the audience stood up and gunned him down?

Tragic.........How terrifying for the movie goers,my heart goes out to them.

Just saw it on the news, tragic loss of life, also makes me wonder about a guy in a store in America yesterday (our time) who foiled an attempted robbery by shooting the offenders (or at least one of them) hailed as a hero, who carries guns to go shopping?? and thankfully no innocent by standers were injured,would it not have been safer to give them the money and leave it to the police rather than jeopardise the safety of others, a sad situation if people feel so threatened that leaving the house with a weapon is considered reasonable for protection

I'll bet there is some kind of issue with the fire doors that the cops aren't mentioning for some reason. Most of those fire doors are inter-linked with a alarm system and have signs warning people of not using them for exits.

There is something very strange in how this guy got in with what he did. In that one area of the story that was given to the news media, there are parts of it that are too incredulous, and seeming like a part of it hasn't been revealed.

i have to agree with jhharlan ,this person planed this ,and any amount of gun legislation would`nt have stopped this from happening ,he would have found another way.you cant take precautions for this kind of tragic event.

The guy had a plan. If he didn't block the fire door opened, he would have found another way to kill.......

Taking the guns away from the good guys isn't going to keep the bad guys from having them.

The same way a patient's pharmaceuticals should be tracked so prescriptions aren't battling against each other or creating too many of the same adverse side effects, firearm purchases should be tracked. More big brother crapola, but what do you want to do?