Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
From what I know, we're friends with a guy who has his PhD, and MD in Neuroscience- not cheap. A lot of people are wondering how he afforded all this, some are even saying he was collecting unemployment- which I believe is probably false. 9News reported last night that one of his teachers said that he was very quiet and "socially withdrawn."

In the aftermath of this, especially after seeing one of the survivors interviewed talking about how it will be a very long time before he goes back to a movie theater, one has to wonder, will this taint that industry? Will fear rule over the fact that these instances are rare? Will you go to a movie at a theater anytime soon? Will you think twice before allowing your children to go to a movie theater?

I think looking at this the thing that angers me most is that people immediately see a tragedy and have the desire to politicize it and blame the tools used instead of the attitude and cruelty that some people possess. Guns didn't make this man evil, he was evil and had some serious issues with his mental wiring. Whatever his reasons or motives this is not something we should ignore, gun ownership would not prevent this, so I think the media and others on a crusade against guns need to instead look at what creates monsters like this and go after that- not this fallacy like we saw with Columbine that video games, music, movies, etc makes people like this. I think a lot of questions need to be answered, and what contributed to this man's psychosis and twisted morals? I'm glad he's alive and hope that we can find out why, maybe figure out what went wrong with him to make him do this unspeakable act.
I went last night to see Dark Knight at 7. It was pretty empty for being opening night of such an anticipated movie. I did sit near the exit, seemed most were avoiding those as well.

If the news reported every car accident no one would ever drive again.