Batman The Dark Knight Rises shooting massacre

http://www.rt.com/news/shooting-dark-knight-rises-batman-denver-aurora-654/

I don't know what to say without potentially insulting our American lovahs, but to us non-Americans this just feels horribly familiar. When people say 'the right to bear arms' here most people think it just means rolling your sleeves up

its tragic and sad. babies and kids were killed.

Fucking asshole.

And a ex medical school student! What could possibly snap so badly in your head that you could go from pursuing a career where you heal people to *this*?? Absolutely tragic.

Is there nothing about motive? So sad reading that people thought it was a special effect at first.

Violence like the massacre that happened in Aurora, Colo., today is a staple of action films, including Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. A similar, now haunting, scene unfurls in "The Dark Knight Rises" when a masked villain leads a violent gang into a packed football stadium and deploys guns and explosives on the unsuspecting crowd.
While there has been no indication as to the motives of James Holmes, the suspected 24-year-old shooter who is now in custody, new evidence suggests that he was inspired by the Batman series of comic books and/or movies.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that Holmes said "I am the Joker" when apprehended by authorities. His hair was painted red, the same hair color of Heath Ledger's Joker at one point in 2008's "The Dark Knight."

There are more parallels. In Frank Miller's iconic 1986 comic book series, "The Dark Knight Returns," the Joker murders a television studio audience by deploying "smile gas." Holmes began his massacre by setting off smoke bombs throughout the theater.
In the same book, Arnold Crimp, a disturbed man who just lost his job, pulls out a handgun in an adult film theater and kills three people. A scene from the strip shows a news anchor saying, "Three slain in Batman-inspired porn theater shoot-out."
Seventy-one people were shot during today's early morning massacre; 12 have died.
PHOTOS: 'Dark Knight Rises' Shooting
Christopher Irving, author of "Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics," dismissed Internet theories that Holmes was taking on the persona of Bane, the villain in "The Dark Knight Rises."
"Bane does not use brute force," he told ABCNews.com. "He wouldn't waste his time, that's not his character's style."
Irving cautioned against blaming an iconic, fictional character for today's tragedy.
"If there is a story with a shooting like this, I can only assume it was a sad, tragic coincidence," he said.

Shootings happen in Europe too. In Finland 2 or 3 times now (in schools and one in a street). We have more strict gun laws and still many have them or take them from their friends, family et cetera. Crazy people is, what crazy people does.

Nicky Mayfair wrote:

I don't know what to say without potentially insulting our American lovahs, but to us non-Americans this just feels horribly familiar.

Anders Behring Breivik was not american and he shot 80 people dead.

"The Cumbria shootings was a killing spree that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, killed 12 people and injured 11 others before killing himself in Cumbria, England. "

Do you know if he rolled his sleeves up to do this Nicky?

and dunblane

Nicky must be busy relaxing on his barge in de Nile because not that it has my attention there was this as well.


The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on 19 August 1987. The gunman, 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, shot and killed sixteen people including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then fatally shot himself. A report on this incident was commissioned by the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. It remains, along with the 1996 Dunblane massacre and the 2010 Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history.

Gun laws over here were tightened up in response to Dunblaine but you can't stop every nutter.

Its seems to be a fashion trend of sort, to just start shooting.

Like people are competing to do the most fucked up thing all the time.

Saw this on the news before I went to bed last night then just saw it again on Yahoo news.


A Maine man was arrested when he told authorities that he was on his way to shoot a former employer a day after watching "The Dark Knight Rises," Maine state police said Monday.
Timothy Courtois of Biddeford, Maine, had been stopped for speeding, and a police search of his car found an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns, ammunition and news clippings about the mass shooting that left 12 people dead early Friday, authorities said.

I winced when we were watching it yesterday, during the scene where Bane and his men break into the stock exchange and start blasting away

Shocking. You must not have seen that coming! Not like me;I WILL see it coming when I go and see the movie myself, this weekend.

Thank you for the spoiler.

that is not a big spoiler!! 'Batman baddie robs bank!!' - no shit, Sherlock!

You don't get to decide if it's big or not; I haven't seen it, yet? nd it's not a bank; it's the stock exchange.How do i know: YOU TOLD ME! i'm not familiar with the characters. so maybe i'm expecting a 'suave' kind of villain who will keep people hostage in a small bank? Anyway, you have succesfully desensitized me from a possible visceral reaction to that scene. You connected the dots to the massacre FOR me; by SPOILING!

Don't make excuses; man up, aknowledge spoilage, apologize...and I might forgive you. MIGHT!

(not so) little shit....

no! nevah!! it's a tiny scene and has no impact on the plot at all!

a tiny scene, you say?THANK YOU FOR SPOILING THAT, TOO, bitch! Why don't you just whip out the transcript and copy-paste it!