Shooting at Batman Premiere.

[SnowDrifter]

Now here comes all the people who say guns should be banned because of what this idiot has done.

The problem is that if you ban guns, then only the bad guys have guns and all the good folks like us are left high and dry. People don't think ahead enough..

IMHO that would be about as effective as banning weed/heroin/etc. Doesn't make much of a difference. People who want it will always find a way to get it.

But... That is pure speculation

[ROLEXrifleman]

I am skilled with each of my weapons. I believe strongly in being practiced and efficient with any weapon one may own. The average ccw no but theres always one in the crowd. They said he swept the isles aiming at people if his weapon was pointed at me in range where i felt mine was effective you can bet your ass it would have been pulled. As smoke said most people dont even know when a proper ccw holder is packing

Edit: im speaking of florida statues i dont know colorado laws

I'm not going to question your proficiency with firearms, I’m not going to disagree with your willingness to help. If anything I applaud that.

But with that said, from your response am I to assume that if this was going on 15 aisles in front of you that you would wait, as dozens of frantic people raced up and over you, for the individual to come toward you? And you are that confident with your skill level to accurately hit only the armed individual amongst the chaos?

Again, no debate from me... Individuals will do what they see fit. My points here are these:

1) You open yourself up to more liability if you don’t use your CCW as a defensive option. The name of the game is GET AWAY, not stay and fight.

2) As a CCW holder and civilian your responsibility first and foremost is to YOURSELF and YOUR family, not the rest of the world. While there may be opportunities in certain situations for you to come to the defense of a group (such as the 71 year old man in the cafe everyone in the CCW world is nut hugging right now) this movie theater scenario is not one of them.

3) Just as we have all the time in the world now to arm chair quarterback this tragedy, someone will have all the time in the world to armchair quarterback your actions. IF things don’t go silky smooth, sweet as pie you will be the poster child for all that is wrong with CCW.

4) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SO LISTEN UP!

If I, as a police officer, am responding to this call and walk in the theater and see an unidentified man with a weapon and feel my life is endangered I WILL SHOOT RIGHT THROUGH YOU! Plain clothed officers die every year due to this, being at the wrong place at the wrong time trying to help and getting blasted by one of their own. It's a sad fact of the job. So don’t think for one sec Johnny Bravo officer would think twice about plugging you is he can’t identify you. Your safer by just getting out of harm’s way!

In the end this played out the best way, ONLY ONE GUNMAN in a dark movie theater. Not multiple shooters who the authorities needed to identify as friend or foe when they arrived on scene. Everyone’s actions have consequences, don’t let the loss of your own life be one of them if you have the option of flight. No one will think less of you for keeping yourself alive. And if CO. is a CCW state doesn’t kid yourself, people were armed in that theater. I just goes to show that human instinct still is flight over fight

[Namosh]

Horrible tragedy. A buddy of mine is a cop in Aurora. He was on the assault team that went in. I am surprised they took the shooter alive. Hopefully justice will be swift with this fucker.

[DTS909]

Just seen this online and the news. Talk about messed up, lets have a speedy trail and put this guy to sleep indefinitely.

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[ALPINE408]

We have a constatutional RIGHT TO BARE ARMS

Sorry for spelling on moble

[CaPRiCEx383]

Damn I'm not gonna wanna move back there now if they mess with the gun laws. As was said above, Bad guys will always find guns regardless.

[Kyblack76]

Yep,... horrible tragedy.......

Makes me sick................ heart felt sorry for those directly affected.........

[dog24fret]

They talk about guns killing people which isn't true as we all know. The one thing most don't think of is even if a perp doesn't have a gun. There are many ways to cause more damage than this idiot did. Not to get anyone mad but facts are facts. Ship him to Korea they still have places to deal with people like this that human right groups can't touch. I can't think of the country that did a gun ban. The hope was to get guns out of criminals hands and into the cops only. The underground sales and illegal guns out numbered the cops 4 to 1 bad odds. I just will never understand someone wanting to kill women,children or men they don't know for no reason. In public places like this or schools and malls it makes me sick people can actually be like this.

[kryptonite]

What the hell is this world coming to? Crazy messed up people not thinking and than most likely getting a slap on the wrist for it. My manager is getting is carry and conceal, i'm contemplating getting mine now. It was said on the news here that the guy had put up a bunch of traps in his apartment and when the bomb squad went to look through the window they didn't know where to start, if any place at all. Possibility the building will just come down as a whole.

[Miguels]

i was just watching the news and seen how they want to ban guns and change our rights. people who are running the government are just plain stupid. the excuse they used was the guns where bought legal. so stopping the sell of fire arms would be good, how good will it be when only registered guns will be confiscated and all guns that are here illegally will still be in criminals hands. banning guns will not fix anything. what they have to do is give criminals more prison time or death depending on crime committed