ParaParaJMo
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i say dont call this guy the joker, because taking innocent lives is not a joke. hes a terrorist who deserves more than the book thrown at him. yeah, he may be in custody and i thank auroras finest and the find young men who protected their girlfriends. those people are my heroes.
but some parents are scared of taking their children to a movie because of this asshole. my youngest brother is autistic and he is a huge batman fan and loves super heroes and jason frank was very, very, very kind to him at a seminar many years ago. he will be 25 in a couple of weeks but he is still mentally a child. my sister has 5 kids and they love super heroes like any other child. i am on the other side of the world right now and i do fear for their safety without me to look after them from monsters like holmes.
i hear that holmes is on suicide watch and in solitary confinement. i hear that the dudes in jail wanna **** him up real bad. i say lets hope that doesnt happen before justice does.
sadly, if someone like jared loughner from the tucson/gabrielle giffords shootings can get off on insanity and be put in a ward along with the reagan shooter, then concievably, so can holmes. yes, the prosecution has an EXCELLENT case that the act was premeditated but if holmes freaks out like loughner (and there was plenty of evidence to prove that his act was also premeditated) did, then the judge can say he is insane. i know in the end, justice will be served.
as for the gun control issue, i heard that aurora already had strict gun control laws. im pretty sure after columbine, that area upped their laws on guns. yes, i believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of criminals. but how is a gun salesman supposed to know if holmes was gonna commit this massacre if his own family and friends didnt see it coming? prior to this, his only record was a traffic violation. will full out banning guns solve the problem? maybe. maybe not. but i believe in education over legislation on all social issues.
but some people can argue that if the audience or one member came in was armed, they could have helped. my father would beg to differ and he was in the military for 25 years and served in vietnam and the first iraq war and says the attack was well planned out (he did not say this to praise holmes in anyway) and that any help wouldnt have made a difference. the exits were blocked off with tear gas and the theater was packed. people are panicking to the nearest exit and piling on each other and are jammed. more gun fire could have resulted to more injuries and casualties. plus, the tear gas would have hurt the other peoples concentration and vision and holmes had body armor and a gas mask. with people in your way and running and panicking and with holmes in armor, it was just impossible to have any fighting chance. this was just a tragedy that we never saw coming (even from those closest to him), but shouldnt have happened. outside of high school rotc, i have not served in uniform, but i do have training in both armed and unarmed combat and i can 100% agree with my father's evaluation of this unfortunate incident.
but incidents like this makes me feel sad that im from america and i live in japan, one of those most safest countries in the world. times like this i explain that **** like this doesnt represent who i am and where i come from. yes, japan is a very safe country to the point that i see elementary students on the trains after midnight! but yes, it does have its problems but id take living in tokyo over phoenix any day of the week, twice on sunday.
my thoughts and prayers go to those victims. if anything, i am ready to make a donation to the hospital or any associated charity and be of some help to my fellow batman fans and human beings. that is the least we can all do for these innocent people.
but some parents are scared of taking their children to a movie because of this asshole. my youngest brother is autistic and he is a huge batman fan and loves super heroes and jason frank was very, very, very kind to him at a seminar many years ago. he will be 25 in a couple of weeks but he is still mentally a child. my sister has 5 kids and they love super heroes like any other child. i am on the other side of the world right now and i do fear for their safety without me to look after them from monsters like holmes.
i hear that holmes is on suicide watch and in solitary confinement. i hear that the dudes in jail wanna **** him up real bad. i say lets hope that doesnt happen before justice does.
sadly, if someone like jared loughner from the tucson/gabrielle giffords shootings can get off on insanity and be put in a ward along with the reagan shooter, then concievably, so can holmes. yes, the prosecution has an EXCELLENT case that the act was premeditated but if holmes freaks out like loughner (and there was plenty of evidence to prove that his act was also premeditated) did, then the judge can say he is insane. i know in the end, justice will be served.
as for the gun control issue, i heard that aurora already had strict gun control laws. im pretty sure after columbine, that area upped their laws on guns. yes, i believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of criminals. but how is a gun salesman supposed to know if holmes was gonna commit this massacre if his own family and friends didnt see it coming? prior to this, his only record was a traffic violation. will full out banning guns solve the problem? maybe. maybe not. but i believe in education over legislation on all social issues.
but some people can argue that if the audience or one member came in was armed, they could have helped. my father would beg to differ and he was in the military for 25 years and served in vietnam and the first iraq war and says the attack was well planned out (he did not say this to praise holmes in anyway) and that any help wouldnt have made a difference. the exits were blocked off with tear gas and the theater was packed. people are panicking to the nearest exit and piling on each other and are jammed. more gun fire could have resulted to more injuries and casualties. plus, the tear gas would have hurt the other peoples concentration and vision and holmes had body armor and a gas mask. with people in your way and running and panicking and with holmes in armor, it was just impossible to have any fighting chance. this was just a tragedy that we never saw coming (even from those closest to him), but shouldnt have happened. outside of high school rotc, i have not served in uniform, but i do have training in both armed and unarmed combat and i can 100% agree with my father's evaluation of this unfortunate incident.
but incidents like this makes me feel sad that im from america and i live in japan, one of those most safest countries in the world. times like this i explain that **** like this doesnt represent who i am and where i come from. yes, japan is a very safe country to the point that i see elementary students on the trains after midnight! but yes, it does have its problems but id take living in tokyo over phoenix any day of the week, twice on sunday.
my thoughts and prayers go to those victims. if anything, i am ready to make a donation to the hospital or any associated charity and be of some help to my fellow batman fans and human beings. that is the least we can all do for these innocent people.
