Exploiting The Colorado Theater Massacre

July 20, 2012 By 79 Comments

It didn’t take long. Despite 12 dead and more than 71 injured, including ten bodies that still remain in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater at this writing, reckless media were looking to exploit the rampage perpetrated by alleged killer, James Holmes, as quickly as possible.

ABC News reporter Brian Ross led the despicable charge, immediately attempting to politicize the issue. “There’s a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado,” Ross irresponsibly told Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos. Yet within hours, the network was forced to make a retraction. ”An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect,” ABC News said in a statement. “ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.”

On CNN, criminal profiler Pat Brown theorized that the rampage constituted the “best night” of alleged killer Holmes’ life, one for which he had “planned extensively,” and that such planning likely involved violent video games. “This has been something he has really been into. And now we’re going to find, probably on facebook or anybody who knows him will say, ‘Yeah, he did have a lot of interest in that. He was always playing the video games,” said Brown. “And I’m not saying video games make you a killer. But if you’re a psychopath, video games help you get in the mode to do the killing. So it is a problem in our society with teenaged psychopaths, that they do get inspired by this and want to make it real. So it is a danger but it doesn’t make you a psycho.”

Time Magazine’s Michael Grunwald, in a piece titled “The Aurora Shooting: Sometimes There’s Nothing Wrong With Politicizing a Tragedy,” contends that the ”telegenic schoolmarms we call pundits are all denouncing the politicization of the tragedy in Aurora, calling out the crass opportunists who would dare to use human suffering to advance their preferred public policy choices. I feel terrible about what happened in that movie theater, and I’m agnostic about gun control, but there is nothing wrong with politicizing tragedy.”

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Arnold Ahlert is a former NY Post op-ed columnist currently contributing to JewishWorldReview.com, HumanEvents.com and CanadaFreePress.com. He may be reached at [email protected]

  • wsg

    To the Left EVERYTHING is political. Of course they ARE our intellectual and moral superiors and therefore are going to lecture and exploit every event no matter how small or bloody to demonstrate such. Please do NOT expect any sense of decency or respect for the dead or injured to impede this compulsion to demonstrate their elite status .
    These Progressives are amoral. Their lives revolve around power and using gov't to steal other people's money so they become wealthy without having to actually earn it ! An armed populace is harder to manage than defenseless sheep !

    • Western Spirit

      good reply.

  • R.J.

    Would this have been any less tragic if he had used a home made flame thrower? He clearly had problems that more stringent gun laws were unlikely to mitigate.

    Why is it always the statist politicians and their left-wing allies in the media that always use an incident like this a a rubric to disarm the law abiding (sane) citizenry? Is it because, as history has taught us, that a disarmed populace is easier to push around by a totalitarian government? Yes, I believe that's it.

    Sorry dingbats, we've studied our history and that BS just does not cut it. We prefer it be hard for you to take this country over…And that you fear us just a little bit. The founders did too, that's why there's a second amendment. Notice it was second. First, you get to criticize you government and worship god as you please (or not for that matter). Second, you get to have the means to fight back against a tyrannical government and keep the rest of your rights.

    • Mach1Duck

      It is because, no matter how trivial or critical the event, out elected represenatives have to look like they are doing something. The thing they are doing does not have to be meaningful or even useful; but it gets their name in front of people. Now is that not sad?

  • Cathy

    If those that had concealed carry were allowed to have their firearms with them, this mass murderer could have been brought down BEFORE he was able to kill and maim so many people!!! The leftists INSIST that if guns are out of the reach of ordinary law abiding citizens that there will be no more violence!!! How utterly ridiculous….. and naive… It would mean that ONLY the criminals WOULD have guns and there would be NO ONE to protect the average citizen….

    • Papa Bear

      "The leftists INSIST that if guns are out of the reach of ordinary law abiding citizens that there will be no more violence!!!" Good post but misdirected. The Leftist don't fear the felons with guns because they prey on us, the Middle Class. The Leftists fear the Middle Class with guns because they know the harder they work to deploy their evil tactics to take over our society, they know the Middle Class will turn on them with their 240 + million guns.

  • Amused

    Let the B.S. fly , this tragedy just like every other in this country , is getting exploited by both sides , one way or another . Have fun flinging shiiit at one another .

    • R.J.

      Who on our side tried to politicize anything? The left does this EVERY single time an incident like this happens form Oklahoma city to Gabrielle Giffords and they are (at least up til now, thank god) WRONG!

      Brian Ross immediately drags the Tea Party into this. No due diligence. No verification. "we found the name James Holmes on an Aurora Tea Party roster". Did you see the thirty or so others in the phone directory, idiot?
      Mr. Holmes had to disconnect his phone! I hope he sues the crap out of that network!

      The left tries to make political hay out of everything, because, as the creepy Balarina Rham said, never let a crisis go to waste?..

      • Amused

        Are you serious ? Are you living in a cave ? do you spend 24/7/365 in this echo chamber ? No wait ! You're a schmuck .

        • Maxie

          Are you serious ? Are you living in a cave ? do you spend 24/7/365 in this echo chamber ? No wait ! You're a schmuck .

          • Amused

            very good Maxie , and yes you are a good little parrot .

          • wsg

            I've been nose to nose with Progressives in the Eco-socialist( read fascist) movement for 30 years.
            LYING is central to the Progressive narrative because when the FACTS are in play they can NOT win an election or policy debate. The presumption of their supposed "good intentions" is wearing out as the outcomes of 60 years of the Great Society/ War on Poverty continue to be a disaster for those they "intended to help." As for "saving the planet" from capitalism => AGW HOAX<= it evident they are trying to destroy Free Market economies while enriching themselves at the public's expense. Lying to destroy the political opposition is just one more tool to get and keep power. Alinsky, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Mao and Obama made it into a effective weapon.

        • R.J.

          Right, ad hominem attacks make YOU a typical left-wing drone. Can't win on substance so make the attack personal.

          I'm a schmuck, huh? It lacks originality and says a lot more about you than me, but I will wear this overused cliche of an appellation proudly! Along with "Tea bagger", "right wing extremist", "hobbit", "racist", "bigot", "homophobe", and all the rest of the garbage you, the most intolerant people on the planet,spew daily at people who have traditional American values and want there country to return to the spirit (not the letter) of it's founding.

          If you do not like our constitution and declaration of independence, leave. There are plenty of nations that forbid personal freedom for you to choose from. The United States of America was not made for people like you. I get it. Now get lost!

          • Amused

            yes , you're a schmuck , and that's simply a direct observation . And a real dumb one at that , since I made no statement implying a dislike fot OUR CONSTITUTION , or The Declaration of Independence . Nor have I used any of the terms you listed EXCEPT "teabaggers " a larger group of SCHMUCKS . But I see you are also a dyslexic schmuck sorely lacking in the skill of reading comprehension So save your phony patriotic speech , for my statements simply exposes the exploitation of this tragedy both by Dem. & Rep., which most of you hypocrites here claim to be exclusively in the realm of the left , or better put those YOU RECKON are on the left , and that is anyone who disagrees with your bullshheet, flag-draped, sanctimonious, lock-stepped politics . My statement had nothing whatsoever to do with the Constitution OR Declaration of Independence , so what in the hell are you talking about ? NO , I wont get lost , but why dont you go crawl up your arse and disappear you dunce .

          • amused

            …and YEA , you MUST be living in a cave , either that or you've got shiit in your ears .There's literally a multitude of examples of this scattered all over the internet , print media and tv . Or maybe you just need to trade your brain in for a new one eh genius ?

          • R.J.

            Sanctimonious? Brother, you are bathing in sanctimony. I'm so glad that someone like you who is so wise and above it all comes here to dispense his "wisdom". I'll bet you shared those same kernels of insight on left-wing threads where the knee-jerk libs want to blame the right or enact more stringent gun controls too, right?

            Of course you didn't, because we know who you really are. No one is fooled by your trolling here…

            Again, get lost and take your phony- baloney, plastic-banana, good-time- rock-and-roll critiquing with you.

          • R.J.

            You've proven my point in spades! Thank you! Keep posting it only exposes you for the liberal garbage that you are. Amused? More like amusing, as in fool, jester, village idiot-take your pick!

          • R.J.

            Every time something like this happens the left starts calling for more gun control, pinning it on Limbaugh, Palin, the tea party, etc. Who on the right does that? Don't give me some idiot that no one listen to or follows, obscure bloggers, etc. This was done by an MSM newscast, the mayor of new york. You're mentally disturbed if you cannot see the difference and your denigration of the Patriotic Americans fighting for traditional American values proves you are not anything but a jerk. Crawl up my arse? Pull your head out of it!

          • Amused

            LOL….no trick here ….looks like I hit a nerve . You haven't got an original though of your own in that empty head of yours do ya ? Well hypocrites like you hate being exposed ,and the respone is not a-typical – rambling rants ,avoiding the subject , pretending to be the eternal victims …just like your fellow schmucks on the left .Your delusion is that you are somehow better , lol…just as is theirs .And the facts just fly right over your heads , totally ignored for the sake of your partisan politics . PARROTS ALL !
            Obscure bloggers ? you mean like Blimpy Limbaugh ? Breitbart.com ? Alex Jones ? Statements BLAMING gun control that no one was in there packing heat to stop this guy ? Statements blaming the victims themselves that no one had a gun to stop this guy ? It's the same B.S. that everyone hears after every tragedy of this nature . Who ya kidding CHUMP ? Yourself ?

  • tgh754cmh

    I blame it all on Michael Moore. I have it on good authority that the shooter hated rich, fat, liberal directors.
    Prove me wrong.

    • Kufar Dawg

      Don't forget amoral and dishonest (as his "documentary" on the NRA proves).

      • Amused

        yea man , EVERYTHING on the internet is TRUUF ,I tell you !

        • Kufar Dawg

          Ever heard of sarcasm? Maybe you should look it up.

  • Stephan

    Holmes smiles as if he is Breivik's twin brother. Check his sex site pictures at TMZ.

  • David

    More people die from medical mistakes than from gun violence. More people die from drunk drivers than from gun violence. Almost all gun violence in urban areas [with strict gun laws like Chicago, New York, LA] is between drug dealers protecting their "sidewalk stores". The media never tell of or show stories from the millions of people each year who have protected themselves and their families from burglars, home invaders, street robbers, car jackers and other criminal activity because they were armed and either used their weapon or threatened to use it.

  • Jose_Can_U_Si?

    .
    ~ The Good News: Colorado has capital punishment!

    JOKER Quote to James Holmes regarding his future lethal injection:

    ■ “It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. Everything burns!”

    JOKER quote after legal justice is served to James Holmes:

    "Ummm, Now we’re talkin.”

  • scum

    Of course, no mention in the this article of the organization that within 24 hrs was using the shooting for aggressively political and extremely narrow reasons: A right-wing SUPER PAC using funny money to defeat Obama. I knew FPM would soon have an article like Ahlert's all greased up and ready to slide into your brain.

    • Steve Chavez

      Excuse me SCUMBAG, every news source is on this story and it is up to them to wait for the facts. The Ross angle with the Tea Party fit the narrative of the alphabet media and many tried to tie in Limbaugh, Hannity, and "right-wing radio" for this massacre just like they did during the Gifford's shooting.

      SO WHAT'S BAD, is that Ross' disinformation IS STILL BEING REPEATED AS FACT BY THOSE WHO DIDN'T HEAR THE RETRACTION. "Did you hear that the guy was in the Tea Party? Maxine Waters was right when she said "Those sons-a-bi*ches."

      We all know too that FPM writes articles on Friday to last over the weekend and if they would have waited till Monday, it would have been an old story especially if more "Breaking News" took place. HUFFPO IS ALL OVER THE STORY. ANY COMPLAINTS? They are drooling over there and sure enough, THE TEA PARTY, RIGHT-WINGERS, AND THE NRA ARE STILL BEING BROUGHT UP!

      • scum

        Actually, Steve, Ross and ABC issued a retraction, unlike Pollack on Breitbart.com who asserted that Holmes "could be a registered Democrat." Fact is, they're all wrong."

    • Looking4Sanity

      Tell the truth…you're on bath salts right now, aren't you? That's the most logical explanation I can think of for that poorly written, rambling, nonsensical excuse of a comment.

      • Amused

        Chavez is on more than bath salts , oh wait you're talkin about ALHERT .

        • Looking4Sanity

          Scum and amused on the same side on an issue. Will wonders never cease?

          • Amused

            Still looking for your sanity ? I'm all for guns , I dont fault anyone here on either side , as I said further down this thread ..NO ONE CAN OUTSMARTY CRAZY . You don't know nothing , you ASSSume like many of your fellow sycophants on this thread . In addition your reading comprehension has not improved since your last regurgitated words spilled out on this thread . Scum just recognizes the rampant hypocrisy that resides here , that is in fact easy to predict .
            BTW , I own an AK , a Bushmaster M-4 , a Ruger Redhawk , a Mossberg , an S&W .38 , Remington 30.06 , 2- 9mm's [one for the wife] 2 High Standard .22 's , and a good ole .45 -1911 . Both myself and the wife have C& C 's for over 15 -years , so numbskull which side of the issue do you think I'm on ? You can take the necessarry 24-48 hrs , it will take answer thaty question .

          • Looking4Sanity

            Take another bong hit and relax, lefty. I wouldn't want you to soil your diaper on my account.

          • Amused

            "soil my diaper " ? Are you kidding me ? I need hip boots to slosh through the piles of shiiit you imbeciles are dropping on this thread .

          • scum

            To Sanity and Chavez, and the gang: Just for the record, I don't own a gun, but nor do I push for gun control. Was Brian Ross wrong? Yes! It was lousy reporting, and he should, and did apologize. Was Joel Pollack of Breitbart wrong for calling the shooter 'a registered Democrat'? Yes, but he didn't apologize. Nor has FPM criticized Limbaugh for spewing nonsense about the evil character BANE in Batman, claiming that his name is a liberal conspiracy to smear BAIN. By the way, Sanity, why do you resort to potty talk (bath salts and poopy diapers!! REALLY!!???)? Wow.

          • R.J.

            Look, dimwit. This is pro-forma behavior from the left and it has a purpose. This nonsense has been going on since the Oklahoma City bombing. The perpetrators are despicable leftists all with the same agenda. You say you like your second amendment rights, right? Then stop with the moral equivocation. There is none! Period!

            The same people are at this every single time something like this and it is always the same story. Not once have they EVER suggested anyone but a conservative, Rush Limbaugh listener could have done these things. They come out immediately with their "investigative" journalism (also called a google search) to reveal that the Aurora Tea Party has a James Holmes on it's roster while ignoring that there are about thirty in the phone directory. That is not "sloppy" reporting. It is a drive-by mudsling. They issued a retraction? This guy had to shut his phone off. Damage done.

            I do not understand WHY you cannot see what is going on here but that is your problem, not mine or anyone else here who is on to their game. It is blatantly obvious to all but you two.

  • scum

    Of course, Ahlert presents as 'ridiculous' the idea that comic books would be censored, again not recognizing that the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s led to a Senate Sub-Comittee under Frederick Wertham to do just that. His SEDUCTION OFTHE INNOCENT called for all kinds of state controls.

  • Steve Chavez

    THEY DO THAT ON PURPOSE AND THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL REPEATING THIS PROPAGANDA since they didn't see the retraction. Some of their lies go on for days and weeks and then on the classified section of the NYT, on page 30, on the bottom left corner, IS THE TRACTION THAT NOBODY READ SO THE LIE CONTINUES.

    WHEN I HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH PEOPLE, THEY REPEAT THE LIE and then I say "didn't you hear that yesterday it was a mistake?" THEY STILL DENY IT SO IT LEADS TO AN ARGUMENT. Many of these people also only watch or read ONE AREA OF THE NEWS so by the MSM not even putting out stories that FOX does, they never hear of it SO IT NEVER HAPPENED AND IT MUST A BE RIGHT-WING LIE.

    THEN THE LIES ARE REPEATED SO MANY TIMES, AND THEY KNOW THEY ARE LYING, THAT IT BECOMES THE TRUTH.

    Sounds like the current Obama campaign and rhetoric!

    • Amused

      I can just picture you Steve arguing with your lefty opponent , both operating not on facts but their partisan bullsheeet and memes . Neither one with enough intelligence or effort to do earnest objective inquiry .Please video tape your next hairbrained argument Steve ,load it up to YouTube …lol.. I bet it'll go viral in minutes . Just put a brown paper bag over your head to retain your anonymity.

  • ★FALCON★

    I find it interesting that everytime Democrats (UN) are pushing massive gun control a freak breaks loose. It's almost like the mind controlled automatons know when to strike.

  • robertpinkerton

    Some friends and I brainstormed that outrage last night, and we came up with a horrifying possibility, syemming from Mr. Holmes academic discipline, neuroscience. Suppose that the tear gas which Mr. Holmes set off, were a mask for something else: Given his academic background, that something else underneath the tear gas, could be a biological agent or a neurotoxin. Likewise, the fact of his surrender suggests the possibility that he is infected with something, and is using his contacts with others (L.E.O.s, jail inmates, court personnel, among others) to infect them. May the Gods grant this speculation prove false.

  • Looking4Sanity

    It's the same with every American tragedy. The statist media comes out swinging immediately, throwing bombs at those on the right with no regard for the truth or the facts, and then back pedals knowing full well that their lies are going to stick in the skulls of the mindless left. We then spend the next two or three months arguing over their lies instead of focusing on important issues like getting Obama out of office.

    Sorry, MSM…it isn't going to work this time.

    • Maxie

      The Statist Media? They're all graduates of the Dan R.ather school of Criminal Journalism.

      • Looking4Sanity

        Sadly so, Maxie. It is enough for me that you see it. We just need to help others see it too.

  • Western Spirit

    If sane people were allowed to carry guns these nuts would think twice about unloading on the public. Deterrents such as the ability to defend yourself, work, but totalitarians of all stripes want to take away that ability.

    • deprogrammer

      I don't agree with your comment about deterrence. I don't think anything would deter some maniac like this. If one place is too heavily fortified he would have gone onto another target until he found the weakest one and then attacked.
      Their is no deterrence only response in these situations. I can't recall a case where the shooter made a real effort to escape. Either they surrendered like this nut job or killed themselves. Return fire would have stopped him – if it killed him.
      According to the reports I've seen this guy was wearing body armour so handgun fire would have been of limited effectiveness but if that is what you have that is what you use. A terrible situation all around.

      • R.J.

        A .45 would have put him on his ass body armor not withstanding. There are no guarantees that someone could have been able to do anything effective against this guy but some return fire might have at least slowed him down a bit. We'll never know. They could give him a belt or some shoe laces now though, maybe he'd save us the expense of a trial…

  • Western Spirit

    Taking our guns makes it the better for the big bad wolf to eat us up, or put another way, the better for totalitarians to enslave us if we are defenseless against their agenda's. So because the Left's lies about guns people die because they can't defend themselves.

  • Amused

    Ya know , I keep looking for some sign of primitive intelligence here , but alas you guy never go beyond 5th graders with Keyboards . BOTH Right and Left came out swinging , Alex Jones with a theory it was an Obama Conspiracy to bring about some gun control to the Left jumping allover the NRA ,so stop PRETENDING it's "only the left or only the right .
    Get the rocks out your heads , NO ONE CAN OUTSMART CRAZY , and there's no shortage of delusional screwballs in the world , a muslim sticks a bomb up his own brothers ass , promises Paradise and sends him off to blow someone up in Afghanistan ,Columbine ,L.A. McDonalds or any plant workplace USA …..there is no difference in a delusional mind that convinces murder must be commited .
    The press right and left is going to run with this until you're sick of hearing it , each with their own spin ,and they pledge to bring you every last detail .
    In the meantime has ANYONE asked the QUESTION why this kids mother called and said , it's got to be her son ?? Did somebody know this was going to happen , were signs clear to his Mom ?

    • R.J.

      Alex Jones? The king of conspiracy nuts and the lunatic fringe? That is your example of "the right" coming out the same way a major network and mayor of the largest city in the country did literally immediately after this senseless act? We're the primitive intellegence?

      Since you are so much above all of this, what left wing threads are you sharing your wisdom with?
      Post some links, I'd like to see how you apply yourself to informing the "primitive intelligence" on both sides of this argument. If you cannot, then you are just a fraud and a muck-raking troll!

      • Amused

        Are you playing dumb R.J. ? Go to Daily Kos, Huffpo,Media Matters, or Anti-War , and a host of others , they are your MIRROR IMAGE spewing the same partisan B.S. , and you're bloody well right , I AM ABOVE IT ALL .And that is not a hard thing , all it takes is keeping your head upon your shoulders and not up your arse like so many here .
        It means not buying into the hairbrained comnspiracy theory or secret agenda that both sides propose and jam down the willing throats of their respective members . Alex Jones , Drudge , Breitbart.com ,Blimpy Limbaugh , Michael Savage , Glen Beck , Michelle Malkin , Batshiit Crazy Bachmann , Demon hunter Coulter , WHO ya kidding R.J. ??? No one with average intelligence would buy into the pile of crap these people are peddling .
        BTW , I do not "inform " ….I MOCK . It;s too late for you jerks on both sides , you poor sob's will go to your graves in the state of willfull ignorance . You are beyond any objective reasoning ,as your thinking is not guided by logic and FACT , but by a mix of hate , slander , rumor ,innuendo and misinformation .

  • Amused

    Why dont you genius' try using your heads for something other than an empty tank waiting for your ideologues to funnel and pour their B.S. into them .

    • Maxie

      Why dont you try using your head for something other than an empty tank waiting for your ideologues to funnel and pour their B.S. into them ?

      • amused

        oh you're real clever Maxie . And look atleast 1 moron thinks you're cool ,.

  • pennswoods

    I hope the "other" James Holmes and Tea Party member of Aurora,Colorado has plans to sue ABC.

  • piratesfan

    David. Over this past St. Patrick's Day weekend in Chicago, President Obama's hometown, where his pal Rahm Emanuel is mayor there were 48 shootings deaths. This is a daily occorance in that city with the strictest gun laws in the nation and the story was not mentioned on any of the national liberal news networks. Odd how the liberals could care less about black on black mass murder isn't it?

    • Kufar Dawg

      Or black MUSLIM on black Christian violence in South Africa, where I think we're going to be seeing a genocide of black Christians not seen since Sudan/Darfur.

  • https://www.facebook.com/richard.terrell.524 Richard Terrell

    OBVIOUSLY this guy is a Christian fundamentalist! Probably listens to Billy Graham on the radio,
    or maybe Phyllis Schlafley. Wasn't he yelling out "Jesus is Great!" while pulling the triggers? I heard
    that he was!! Yessir. Probably went to the movie straight from a prayer meeting where people were
    speaking in tongues and praising God. Or am I getting this mixed up with the some other religion
    in our world acts? Hmm. Maybe I'm confused.

  • roy swanson

    I'm surprised no one has made the connection between this action of insainity and the countless hateful actions of Islamic jihadists worldwide. By the way, both seem to target random, go about there own business, every day type people.The madness lies deep in what the bible would call a blood lust. Christians in many parts of the middle east asia and africa are constantly under the threat of this kind of madness. Although many actions like this go on daily, it never seems to get the attention of the press. I wonder why???

  • Andrew Corsi

    There should be an investigation into George Stephanopolous because we all know that the acid murderer who killed six people but who claims he killed nine, was named George!
    Also it is no coincidence that Brian is the one who murdered his parents with a claw hammer! What a terrible reporter!
    Oh, wait! I have to make a retraction, the George I was writing about was John George Haigh.
    Woops, I have to make another retraction, the Brian who murdered his parents was Brain Blackwell.

  • Willy Rho

    This has the earmarks of another Fast & Furious, Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidian, Murry Bldg Bomb Fiasco. What do they all have in common? wait for it….. Eric Holder. Oh I forgot, Kenneth Trentadue's murder in prison should be included, too. These are all acts by government, Liberals that hate Liberty, Freedom of Speech and Guns, to play games of "GOTCHA". It is likely another STING gone Stupid, with STUPID at the controls. The Congress should step in and take custody of the shooter so the FBI and the CIA don't murder him like they did Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • scum

    So True: Media Bias. Didn't take long for Joel Pollack to post this little ditty: "James Holmes…could be a registered Democrat." Perhaps Holmes was acting out a diabolical strategy to implement gun control. LOL

    • R.J.

      If history is any guide, he's more likely an "occupy" person than a "tea party" one. That thing about life, liberty, and pursuit, we actually take that seriously…

  • scum

    Truly, gun owners have nothing to worry about: The weak synatax of the 2nd Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms (of course, the 'well-regulated militia' phrase is always overlooked), and the NRA is one of the most influential lobbies in the whole business of sleazy, big-money D.C. lobbying. You can keep your guns.

    • wsg

      Scum- 'well-regulated militia' – I know history isn't a Progressive's strong suit – but in the historical context of the times a militia was an armed citizenry ! The US Constitution and Bill of Rights are a CLEAR constraint on an expansive and oppressive Federal gov't. The rights enumerated are INDIVIDUAL and STATES' RIGHTS.
      Clearly ther US Federal gov't has been outside the Constitution for decades !

    • R.J.

      Let me get this straight. The government whose PRMARY purpose under the constitution is defense of the nation had to amend the constitution to allow it to arm itself after fighting a bitter war for freedom against the most powerful military of it's time. That is the kind of circular logic you can ONLY get from a liberal! You're name says it all, brother. Scum…

      It is called the "Bill of Rights" for a reason. They are our rights! Read it! It is full of "congress shall nots", dimwit! The founders did not trust congress and the Bill of Rights was a condition demanded by several of the founders to get them to commit to ratification of the new constitution. Originally, they proposed 12 but settled on these ten.
      The only way to disarm the American people is by Amending the constitution or holding a convetion and rewriting it and that ain't even close to happening now.

      Liberals, they know so much that isn't true

    • tagalog

      The language pertaining to "a well-regulated militia" is most certainly NOT overlooked; it comes up every time the Second Amendment is debated. The phrase is obviously not intended to interfere with "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." If it were, the latter language would refer to "such people," "those people," or some other limiting language indicating that "the people" in question was limited to militia.

      The NRA had absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the Aurora; they said nothing beforehand, and they've said nothing since the incident occurred. So what's all the brouhaha about the NRA? They weren't involved.

  • ross1948

    Your article draws much the same conclusions as our expat blog about the way those pinko journos shrug off their responsibility to research 'news.'
    That innocent Holmes should sue!

    http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/bl…

    And what a shock that Bloomberg jumped straight in. Even Obama has given it a decent interval though I guess he'll soon be using it as gun control propaganda fodder.

  • quark1912

    Amazing that none of the usual suspects has blamed Sarah Palin, yet.

  • Argyraspide

    During most of human history – and presently with those humans who remain in tribal societies faced with dangers from raiders and predatory animals – male members of the tribe are expected to defend the group and die fighting as may be necessary. They are all warriors, even as on a daily basis they are farmers, herdsmen, potters, smiths, etc. In our frontier days men dropped their plows and grabbed their rifles when raiders struck. Again, it was expected of them and they killed those who tried to harm their families and the group as a whole. Today we live in "protected" societies and the warrior obligation has been relegated to others. A mistake. I believe with all my heart that the males or our species have an obligation to protect and defend unto death their loved ones and the weak and helpless of their societies. I am armed and will do my duty. Shouldn't you?

  • tagalog

    If Pat Brown says that a fascination with video games is enough to trigger mass murder in a fragile mind, what does he say about generations of successful attacks on our cultural standards and injunctions?

    I wonder what Mr. Brown thinks about the movement to "de-institutionalize" the mentally ill, so that long-term involuntary hospitalization for crazies is a distant memory?

    If the prosecution of Holmes is true to Colorado form, he will be found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. Holmes will play the crazy card for all he's worth, and he'll be laughing all the while. If his photos are any indication, he's been laughing for a long time.

  • Colorado guest

    Why not go around the theme and suggest that the shooter was an anarchist instead? Daniel Pipes warned that anarchy was a looming problem around the world. Occupy Wall Street was the media pet in America. Now that there is a gigantic list of charges against the members, it is not a stretch to imagine this shooter was influenced by the protests in Denver earlier this year.

    • Amused

      it can just as easily be contrived , that he attended a tea party meeting and drank some of their paranoia tea .

  • Ghostwriter

    Let me inject some non-political stuff here. The man who did this was a lunatic. Just like Breivik. I hope he gets what's coming to him. The man deserves the death penalty and I hope it comes into play here.

  • Amused

    Hows about injecting some objectivity here .At the moment no one knows jack . Breivik DID have political motivation. Both deserve the death penalty . There are questions , where did this kid get 14k to buy all this stuff in 2 months ? WHY did his mother immediatelky know it was her son upon hearing of the shooting ?
    Yes both are lunatics , and as I said before NO ONE will ever outsmart crazy .

  • Looking4Sanity

    So, you're saying that Congress should nullify the Constitution? How patriotic of you. You must be so proud. Also…you are a filthy spammer.

  • Judahlevi

    There are already laws against murdering innocent people – this guy didn't care – and he wouldn't care about any law saying he couldn't carry a gun outside his house.

    Does anyone truly believe that more "laws" will keep someone from breaking the law? Absolutely not. It will only prevent law abiding citizens from enjoying their private security rights.

  • Chiggles

    Ignore the commercial spammer.