Friday, July 20, 2012 at about 12:20 AM, in a 16 screen theatre complex in Aurora Colorado, a 24 year old mad man, released two tear gas grenades, and opened fire on a theatre full of innocents, killing 12 and wounding another 58. The gunman entered the theatre using an exit door on the right front by the screen. He had four legally purchased firearms, 6,000 rounds of ammunition, and had no previous law problems other than a speeding ticket years before. One of his guns, had a 100 cartridge drum, and after shooting about 40 rounds, the gun jammed. He abandoned it on the theatre floor, and continued with his other firepower till he ran out of ammunition. Had the gun not jammed, probably a lot more would be dead and wounded. He was captured a few minutes later, and has been in solitary ever since, other than Monday, when he was taken to court and remained totally silent.
He had spent weeks booby trapping his apartment with trip wires, gasoline, and 30 bombs of various kinds. Fortunately, the police were highly suspicious of his apartment, and entered it very carefully, through a window, using a fire truck aerial ladder, and eventually used a robot to trip the trip wires. Holmes had set the trap, so that the first person entering the door to the apartment, which he had left unlocked, would have probably been killed after severing a trip wire placed at the front door of his apartment. He deliberately played music at top volume, and a lady downstairs went up to complain. Fortunately, even though she found the door unlocked, she decided not to enter after knocking to complain. She would have died and maybe destroyed the entire apartment building, had she entered.
James Holmes is a brilliant, evil man, who seemed to have excelled at anything he tried, and achieved straight A grades in college with little effort. Why did he do it? The Alex Jones types think he is ’brain controlled’, and I disagree. I have no idea why he did it. The news media says it will take months to find out his motives, and if he pleads ’insanity,’ he may live, a-la John Hinckley. I don’t care why he did it. He may be a ’suspect,’ but he did it, and is guilty. He has had a court appointed public defender representing him.
To those who think he has had his brain ’controlled,’ they fail to mention how that could be done, and fail to note that he spent many weeks preparing his apartment, and purchasing his arms and ammunition. I doubt that ’brain control’ whatever that is, would work to allow him to plan, purchase, wire, etc. If they think it is hypnosis, hypnosis would never work that long or well. I am not saying that official explanations of 9/11 are correct, as they aren’t. Nor is the official explanation of the Oklahoma bombing satisfactory in any way, because a truck loaded with fertilizer and fuel oil, couldn’t possibly have done that much damage to the Federal Building. The theatre shooting and apartment booby trapping is an entirely different incident, and involves one single person, not buildings being destroyed. It is one deranged man, who possibly had an accomplice. CBS news Friday morning, had a witness who said that a man came down to the front row of the theatre, took a call on his cell phone, and proceeded to open the exit door, which gave Holmes a way to get into a locked door. That may or may not be true. Doesn’t matter. He did it and is guilty.
On August 20, 1986 in Edmund, Oklahoma, Patrick Henry Sherrill committed suicide after killing 14 and wounding 8. On November 5, 2009, at Ft. Hood, Texas, Nidal Hasan, an obvious Muslim, killed 13 and wounded 30. On April 13, 2007 in a college campus at Blacksburg, VA, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32, wounded 17, and then committed suicide. Hasan, did it because of his Muslim beliefs, but were the other two ’brain controlled’ or just plain nuts? Human brains can go berserk without being controlled by some sinister, human, evil force
Not only have the brain control units come out, but the liberals and their gun controls are out in numbers as well, which is to be expected. They fail to note that Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York are the murder capitals of America, and all have very severe gun controls, and make purchasing one virtually impossible. One movie goer with a gun, could have stopped the mass murder instantly. The gun control screechers, also fail to note than England has made any possession of a gun punishable by a year in prison, regardless of who has it, or why or how. Crime and murder have escalated to the heavens since England made gun ownership illegal. Hitler and other dictators, have made collecting all guns their first priority upon taking power.
Every day, lots of people lose their sanity and do crazy things, including murder, suicide, arson, and criminal or goofy things. Maybe it is pressure, bankruptcy, failures of various kinds, or just plain having ones brain become scrambled, causing radical, extreme, or odd behavior. We are the way we were raised, and few can escape their childhood upbringing or experiences. Was Holmes raised in an atmosphere of violence? Was he nutty in childhood? Lots of super brilliant people are as crazy as loons, and still do great math and get good grades.
The latest internet nonsense, comes from some ’anonymous’ source in Canada, who insists that Obama is going to declare martial law in America, and stop the election. Nonsense everywhere. James Holmes deserved a firing squad immediately, and to waste millions of dollars in trials and legal absurdities, makes me ill. Maybe a bit of old west justice would do well here. Often a trial was held, and punishment took place at a nearby tree.