Colorado 'batman' shooting?

I think when you have Congressmen in the press announcing it is an attack on the Christian faith, and numerous other press attempting to blame the teaching of evolution, humanist, and the God forsaken Atheist for the action it is hard not be offended. I do fine it of interest he was “A Good Christian boy”, but I recognize the 24 year old man was not a boy, and was also not in his right mind, thus I don’t blame the Christian faith for the killings. They have enough killings they are responsible for without giving them credit for these. I do blame them for their attempt to blame any other view than their own for the deaths.

 

To an extent, there is no point in arguing why the shooter committed the crime, because several of the potential reasons will include things that were of his free will and legal right.

Who cares if he was Christian or Atheist? Are we going to ban going to church as a result? What about the fact that he was a grad student in neuroscience? Let's ban people from studying neuroscience! Even if things like these made a difference, it would be useless to point a finger at them since one cannot stop a human from doing these things.

Let's look at what we can change, like the number of armed civilians able to defend themselves from crazies like the shooter.

 

Both sides have their political agendas. I don't take sides (I realize both sides are buillshit), but I am sure you do.

 

You can arm people with guns all you want, it won't do much since he had bullet-proof equipment:

"He was dressed in head-to-toe armor and looked like he meant business," said Jordan Crofter, who escaped the theater unharmed. "He just walked around like he was having fun. It was just target practice. His goal was to kill as many people as he could."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...ver-area-movie-massacre-232932177.html?_esi=1

 

I just can't believe that things like this are getting more common in the US, but we are still far from some countries such as Mexico and Brazil, in which some cities see mass killing on an almost daily basis. But at least there, there is a motive, which is often the drug trade. Here, as in this case, the only motive seems to be mental instability. Its very sad.

 

Fuck Holmes ill shoot that piece of shit 10 times in the chest. Then kick his head a few times.

 

I think it's wrong at this point and time to assume he was crazy, and that he didn't have a motive. I've done some research as to why the shooter at Colorado did what he did. Apparently he was apart of a black bloc anarchist group. This is the type of groups that help convicts to escape. This did happen in the movie with the bad guy Bain, helping all the convicts to escape. There are many other parallels with this group and the movie, such as this group has planned to blow up bridges and in the movie this happens. Is it possible that this movie put this anarachist group in a bad light caused some spite? At this point we do not know, I just have my own opinion I don't know if being apart of a group that has planned to blow up bridges, but acting on your own, constitutes as terrorist threat even if I was right about this being an act as payback for making his group look bad.

 

That is actually a very good theory. But to me that does not make him any less crazy. It just makes him a crazy man with a motive. The similarities to the movie are a bit eerie. Who here has seen the movie so far and wants to elaborate?

 

Uhmm, the figures I quoted were for the entire population of 318,470, not per 10,000. If you do the math, they come out the same.

Further I clearly stated that it was actually easier and overall more accurate to just consider TOTAL crime figures against TOTAL population numbers.[/QUOTE]

As far as the rest of your post...whatever

Dude I purposely jumped on the ludicrous side because you trying to compare crime rates between two countries with OVER A HUNDEREDFOLD DIFFERENCE IN POPULATIONS is plain silly and ignorant.
There are so goddamn many factors that need to be accounted for that you making the generalized conclusions you have is just stupid.

 

A bullet proof vest doesn't turn a guy into a freakin tank. The bullets don't just bounce off like the vest is a force field. If someone would have fired back, in the very least it would have made the shooter fall back a step and give a few more people time to get out. In the very best someone could have shot him in the head and ended it.

 

So are you saying this anarchist group had a private pre-screening of the movie so they could devise this attack plan?

 

It's amazing, how quickly we forget... One look, and we all should know what went wrong...

 

Give us the source of this info please. We'd like links to this information so we can read it for ourselves.

Let's not forget that art imitates life.

 

I wrote quite a lengthy response to this... but I've decided to take my own advice, arguing is pointless. Maybe not always, but under these circumstances on this forum, yes, it is pointless.

 

hell yeah.. that's why the other day when i got bit by a spider.. i tried jumping from the tallest building in town and tried shooting webs from my hand so i could swing from building to building.. now i type using a straw in my mouth

 

just horrible.

 

^Actually your views on what repentance actually is in Christianity is really only a definition of repentance that started emerging after the 1950's. As a Christian I am offended that you think that faith offers no incentive to avoid sin.

Also to those who say if everybody was carrying the tragedy in colorado would not have happened, are forgetting that that guy was nuts and may not have been following logic of survival at all. He was making a statement, while emulating the joker character apparently.

It should be stated that Finland and Norway have significantly less gun crime than the USA does though, and many believe it's because of their stricter gun laws.

EDIT: Also common sense tells me I don't want people high on weed while also being allowed to be forced to carry...doesn't seem like a good combination.

 

No reply from another 1-post wonder...

 

You expected better?

 

^ I will agree with you here that this was a really bad Christian to make those claims....possibly a troll?