Shooting at showing of 'Dark Knight Rises'

This is just awful. Twelve people dead, fifty people injured, and all they were doing was watching a movie that they were most likely really excited for. I can't imagine what must go through a person's mind in order to take one life, let alone twelve. How can someone do such a thing? It's so sad.

Thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims.

All I'm saying criminally insane, disturbed person with access to fire arms.

No want for gun control laws that protect honest gun owners and punish those who get them illegally here.

Still, the fact he was able to smuggle a gun into a movie theater shows that something is totally wrong with something.

I thought I had read a report where he snuck in through an emergency exit door or something like that, so there was no real way for anybody to know that he was coming in.

The fact that ANYONE was able to sneak in through the emergency shows something is wrong with that theater. They're locked on the outside for a reason. Not so much so someone can shoot it up, but rather so someone can't sneak in without paying. Heck, with a HUGE movie like that, why aren't there ushers guarding the exits to make sure someone doesn't sneak in without paying?

It's a horrible tragedy, but once again, the news media is treating this like a circus. They're going on and on, deliberating on deliberations that they already deliberated, trying to Monday Morning Quarterback already with NO motive or psychological profile.

This is so scary and crazy. Why would these messed up people do that?
Not normal....I'm scared to go to a showing of The Dark Knight Rises now....

It's a freak incident in ONE theater. Theaters will beef up any security in the extremely slim chance of a copy cat attack. And Copy Cats will always fail because they're clumsy.

If nothing else, see it on a weekday during the afternoon as a matinee. It will be MUCH less crowded, MUCH lighter out, and there's NO chance someone would be dumb enough to attack during broad day light.

There is NOTHING to be afraid of. What the news isn't talking about are the thousands, if not hundreds of other Midnight showings that went out without a hitch. Heck, most illegal thing to expect with the others is someone making a crappy bootleg.

Drtooth, I really doubt Muppetfan123 was being serious when he said he's scared...

I've been watching the news all day and I find this absolutely disturbing and sick. I had tons of funny Batman statuses planned for Facebook this weekend, but now it doesn't seem right to joke about the movie that way. It almost makes me not want to see The Dark Knight Rises at all.

People don't seem to have the proper respect for the families and friends of the victims. I saw the comments on some of the articles online and wanted to vomit, with how quickly people jump to make political statements off of this. Sad.

I am speechless. I woke up at noon after being at a midnight screening and I found out the news. I can't even imagine the pain in that community right now. My heart breaks for them and the victims' families are in my prayers. I am in utter shock at this horrific event. There are honestly no words.

If cussing were allowed - uncensored - on this forum, I'd have a few words to say about that ************

Sorry, but I'm just so shocked and so outraged that this happened.

Letter to Psycho:

Dude, Arkham is not taking applications. You will never realize Joker's level of bad--- villainy. You had some promise, but Mr. J will always pwn you.

Love,
HQ

PS In all seriousness, the newest updates have him claiming to be Joker while dressed as Bane. Hardcore geek this guy clearly is not.

Heard about it this morning on the news while I was working out. It's sad, sick, disturbing and just plain dreadful. I don't think I'm going to plan on going to a movie at night for a long LONG time. I have a feeling they're going to tighten movie theater security after what just happened.

Monstrous is the closest I can come without having to be censored.

What's almost as monstrous, one of the victims was a six-year-old and one commenter over on E! was more focused on lambasting the parents for the kid being there, than caring that people actually died.

I wasn't really scared, but it's basically just a call for all those copycats to come out.
Anyway, these kind of things can happen anywhere at any time, this can happen in a grocery store......

I had that feeling too, I have a feeling this movie is going to lose money becuase of this incedent.
This story made the movie less enjoyable for me, I don't know why, but it did.

http://gma.yahoo.com/colorado-batma...d-student-085940589--abc-news-topstories.html

(Those of you more interested in hearing the story. )

People shouldn't be scared to go to the movies because of one incident with one seriously mentally ill person.

Either way, I'm still speechless that it even happened.

That's just awful to do. Was the movie right for six year olds? Probably not. But that shouldn't even matter, because that's completely obscuring the fact that a set of parents lost their six year old. Leave it to E! to give the nuanced, sensitive coverage an issue like this deserves.

Not even that. The fact they just keep repeating facts all day until one tiny detail pops up, rather than just waiting for info and going onto something else. Then they call in experts to do a complete psychological profile on someone who we don't even know the motive of yet.

But this is a tragedy, and it's going to go through 3 media steps...

1) Media oversaturation, usually giving the terrorists/crazy person/serial killer exactly what they want. ATTENTION!

2) The Blame Game. Blaming the random events of a crazy person on everything under the sun, EXCEPT massive psychological issues, and personal problems. Considering this was a Batman movie, we're going to see some real crap hitting the fan. So far, a Batman comic by Frank Miller is being taken into consideration.

3) Vowing to never EVER let it happen again, mark anniversaries by the week, month, 6 months, year, forget about it, and then completely ignore ALL the warning signs they finally found again, essentially LETTING it happen again, starting the whole process of Monday morning quarterbacking all over again, NOT solving anything.

I understand exactly what you're talking about... but..

this is going to hurt getting this out.

THIS is why I hate tragedies. We handle them terribly. We're overly sensitive, we have to walk on eggshells forever, and all it does is show that whoever caused that tragedy WON! I have nothing but the deepest regret for the victims and the blackest hate for the shooter... but an asterisk cannot and should not mar the film, the franchise, and the character's legacy. I'd hate it if the film were pulled out of theaters and a Batman merchandise burning took place. All we do will not make this tragedy not happen.

The character's legacy cannot end with one crazy guy killing a bunch of people at one of thousands of Midnight showings. We SHOULD go see this movie, make it as huge a hit as possible, buy all the merchandise we possibly can, draw all the lewd Joker/Harley fan art we can to show the crazed moron that we are NOT afraid of him! How about we actually look at the fact that National Midnight showings broke records?

Actually... you know what? Everyone WEAR your Batman shirts with pride this weekend. Watch as many episode of the cartoon you possibly can find on Youtube. Read some Bat-Comics. Not to be insensitive to those who were killed or maimed... but to stick it in the face of some loser that went nuts. That's what Batman would want us to do. Show the world we aren't afraid of dangerous crazies, and we're on the side of justice!