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(AP) - University of Colo. Med School says shooting suspect was student there but withdrew last month.
CU confirming that the guy was working towards a Ph.D in neuroscience.
The shooting at the mall was last month, roughly 7 weeks ago.Originally Posted by triggercut
Like many others, I'm just... dumbfounded when stuff like this happens. I cannot comprehend it at all. I'm empathetic in a lot of ways, able to picture myself in other people's shoes and imagine what they are feeling and experiencing... but something like this. I mean, I get life sucking and wanting to kill yourself - I don't always agree but I can see how someone arrives at that conclusion. Here though, my brain cannot processes how a person could get to a point where the answer is "I want to go shoot and kill a lot of random people."
13 dead so far.
I live in the area, along with Mini-Cyn, and it's pretty much all that's on.
Evacuated 5 building around the suspects, and suspect bobby-traps and such.
Probably donate some blood. Do my bit to help.
Glad y'all are ok.
Page 3, presentation on something called "Micro RNA Biomarkers"
Obviously there's some mental issues here, but the guy is no dummy.
“@CaptainAnnoying: In tragedies like this, let's remember the true heroes: the bloggers trying to find out which political party the shooter belonged to.”
Oh, I understand that it happens. It just hadn't hit home to me that we've gotten to the point where you really can't tell the fans from the crazies, until today.
Well, we know the guy's name. James Holmes.
From the way reports sound, he was looking a bit like a Batman foe.
Gas mask, bullet-proof vest and used smoke bombs, and explosives along with the guns.
Some news outlets have even suggested that's what he was going for.
Now back to calling family and letting them know I wasn't at the Century 16 nor was Mini-Cyn.
Yeah, for all the shit I give cops for the bad actors in the profession, there are still plenty of good guys who really are there to protect and serve.
Speaking of the good guys, I think I read that some soldiers were among the victims as well. Any life lost this way is so fucking random and sad.
Your suspect:
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I'd imagine that's because you're not a psychopath, whereas I wouldn't be surprised to find that this guy is. The fact that he was working toward a Ph.D is admittedly a strike against my uneducated guess, but the fact that his mother didn't seem surprised seems to me to speak to long-term behavioral problems.
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Yes, every time one of these things happen, people asking to ban guns are 'playing politics'.
Save us all from smirking grad students. (He looks like a less handsome, less angry version of me circa 1994.)Your suspect:
Not trying to play politics but seriously, with so many shooting incidents I just don't understand why America still allows guns. I'm not living in America obviously.
We have this constitution thing.
If only there were some way to amend it.
To outlaw guns? Come on, have you guys ever actually met any Americans? Or watched any television shows or movies we produce?
that didn't essentially require 2/3 of the country to see eye-to-eye about a single, specific thing.
Besides, there's always the "If only the rest of the people had guns!" defense.
I'm not sure the founding fathers would have enshrined the same right today, but what I can say is that as society changes, you need to have the flexibility to change some rights.
But back to the issue at hand - I'm sure reports will show if there was any indication that the gunman would do this, but I'm not sure what today's society can do about it even if there was. Until he commits a crime anyway.
I'm not sure how anyone could have done anything differently that night which would have had a different outcome.
Forget guns: America should just make murder illegal!
I'm actually all for people having the constitutional right to bear arms. As long as those arms are the ones available at the time of the drafting of the Bill of Rights. I'm willing to bet if this guy had to front load a musket for a thing like this, he'd have been tackled and beaten to death before he got a second shot off.
News sources are quoting federal law enforcement: Holmes was dressed like the Joker and had dyed his hair.
Sigh. I was really hoping he wasn't going to turn out to be one of those "I'm gonna be just as awesome as the Joker" type nuts.
Norway has some of the toughest gun laws in the world. Didn't stop Breivik.
That's because they still allow guns. Once guns are allowed or it's possible to legally own one, it's pretty much out of your hands what people do with them.
Whaddya mean bloggers?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...ct-129588.html
Hey, maybe Sorkin will make this into an episode of Newsroom!
Or not.
it bothers me too, but not half as much as people who talk out of their ass without knowing details about what they are talking about.
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