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Re: Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater
Not a surprise, just look @ the loonies in the 9/11 thread
Woulda been cool if that article above had ended 'Bale is there as himself not as The Batman'.
Re: Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/wak … 30871.html
Torrence Brown Jr., one of the Aurora movie shooting survivors, is planning on suing the theater, confirmed his family's publicist on Wednesday. "We're going to make sure whoever is accountable is going to take responsibility for this tragedy," Cassandra Williams of Wet PR said. She said that Brown, who was friends with 18-year-old AJ Boik, one of the shooting victims, is handling the criticism his suit has sparked. "We know it goes with the territory, so he's fine," Williams said. She added that Brown, 18, is seeking therapy and is emotionally distraught after the shooting.
Brown's attorney Don Karpel told TMZ he plans to sue the Century 16 theater, which is owned by Cinemark, for having an exit door that was not equipped with an alarm or guarded. (Holmes reportedly left the theater through the exit door, propped it open and returned with his weapons.) Karpel also said he may sue Warner Bros for releasing violent movies that may have inspired the shooter, as well as the suspect's doctors, if he had any, for hypothetically not monitoring James Holmes' mental condition properly.
J.H. Verkerke, director of the University of Virginia Law School's Program for Employment and Labor Law, told Yahoo News that in general, it would be difficult to win a claim against a theater in this type of situation unless you could prove that the theater should have known about the threat and that its safety standards are below average compared to most movie theaters. Cinemark declined to comment on the suit on Tuesday.
Lawsuits certainly aren't uncommon in the wake of mass shootings like Columbine, Virginia Tech and Fort Hood. After the 1999 Columbine school shooting, some families of the young victims banded together to sue gaming companies for $5 billion. The class action alleged that the shooters were influenced by violent video games, especially one called "Doom." A federal judge dismissed the suit. And several suits against the school were also nixed. But some families did win a settlement against the shooter's parents and against friends involved in providing guns to the young men.
Family members of some victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting won their $8 million suit against the school for failing to notify students faster that a gunman was on campus, which they said would have saved their children's lives. The state settled with other victims' families for $11 million. More than 50 relatives of the victims of the Fort Hood massacre in 2009 sued the government, saying authorities ignored signs that the accused killer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was violent and dangerous.
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Re: Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater
So I saw this floating around the interwebs today:
http://i49.tinypic.com/slij9s.jpg
Apparently there's a group out there claiming some sort of conspiracy which I think is crazy.
If I say anything here that's already been said, I apologize. I've got thoughts that need to get out and I don't wanna flip through the pages and change my thoughts before I write.... Here goes.
My thing with this photo today is this:
It's the same dude. I'm not sure how people can't see that. I understand that he does look slightly different in the photos, but they're taken from different facial angles. The photo on the right has his chin tilted up higher, and his eyes are different because your eyes naturally look different when you're smiling, or in the case of the photo on the left, smirking.
If you take a look at his ears, you'll see that the placement is right, and they're the same.
The people saying that they arrested the wrong guy are just killing me! How about this. They found a dude. Next to a car. Registered to J.H.
He surrendered.
How do you think you have the wrong guy? You think that someone came in, shot up the joint, then took off? And someone else is there, standing by to take the blame? Nope.
I can't stand that everyone out there is looking for a government conspiracy and someone else to blame. This guy went nuts. He was used to a life of ease and when he found something that challenged him to the point of failure (apparently he failed an exam a few days before purchasing the first weapon), he lost his damn mind. It's not that far fetched.
- monkeychow
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Re: Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater
he plans to sue the Century 16 theater, which is owned by Cinemark, for having an exit door that was not equipped with an alarm or guarded. (Holmes reportedly left the theater through the exit door, propped it open and returned with his weapons.) Karpel also said he may sue Warner Bros for releasing violent movies that may have inspired the shooter,
I love the USA but this is the type of reasoning that just confuses me. You live in a nation where there are as many guns as there are people. Then when something terrible like this happens, it's the fault of the movie or the building designer? People are suggesting we should alarm all doors, and destroy all art with any hint of violence and that would be preferable to reconsidering the "right" to own weapons designed for the sole purpose to kill?????
It's just insane logic to me.
- Me_Wise_Magic
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Re: Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater
This guy is seriously fucked up beyond reason!
