Shooting at TDKR Midnight Premiere in Aurora, CO. Multiple dead.

[Priest31kc]

At least 10 moviegoers were killed and 39 injured at a cinema in the Colorado city of Aurora in the Denver suburbs. They were attending a midnight showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.

The theater was packed with a lot of people, many of them young fans, at the time the shooting started, 9news reports. The violence erupted some 15 minutes after the movie started, witnesses said.

Some say that when they first heard the shooting, they thought it was some new type of special effect.

Local media reports that two gunmen were involved in the rampage. An explosive device was set off during the shooting, injuring several people.

Witnesses said the gunmen were probably wearing body armor and gas masks and used some kind of a tear gas bomb in the attack.

Some reports say police have apprehended one of the assailants while the second one is still at large.

Police have cleared people from the scene over fears that another explosive device might be on the premises.

Aurora medical services were alerted to attend to the large number of injured

http://www.rt.com/news/shooting-dark...er-aurora-654/

WOW

[LOCOChief]

I guess these guys don't believe in hell, they will soon but not soon enough.

[bevischief]

Here meet your cell mate big Been over Bob.

[Rasputin]

Prayers and thoughts go out to the victems and families.

This ****ing pisses me off that this stuff happens here in USA.

[Predarat]

So sad and tragic.

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by R8ers

In NC you cannot have a Concealed Carry at a place where admission is charged to get in, Don't know if it's similar there but 4 or 5 armed patrons could have possibly saved alot of lives and injuries...

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by manchambo

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

I was thinking about this....you'd have to be as crazy as the shooter to pull it off and beat him without injuring someone else.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by manchambo

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

Would people have been killed: yes. Would the damage done have been reduced: probably.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I was thinking about this....you'd have to be as crazy as the shooter to pull it off and beat him without injuring someone else.

At that point, things aren't going to get any worse. You would just be trying to buy time for people to get out.

[jspchief]

Originally Posted by durtyrute

The wife and I are going to visit Denver here soon. Is this type of shit commonplace there?

Is this a serious question?

[LOCOChief]

Originally Posted by manchambo

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

So if you were in that situation you would've opted to not arm yourself?

Not sure if that works either.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by manchambo

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

Even if he got hit in the chest with the vest on could have slowed the ****er down or knock him on his ass. I've never had the experience but am sure it hurts like a mother ****er. Maybe just maybe it still could have saved lives that way and subdued the mother ****er.

[suds79]

Originally Posted by LOCOChief

I guess these guys don't believe in hell, they will soon but not soon enough.

Yep. I'm sure there will be buzz words out there like "Chemical imbalace" or "temporary insanity" (that's my favorite) that his defense team will use but make no mistake about it, sometimes there's just pure evil in this world and it sucks.

[Sofa King]

Son of a bitch.

[Aries Walker]

I think I'll pass on the idea of a half dozen armed theatergoers firing wildly into the smokey darkness in the hopes of hitting the better prepared and better equipped crazy guy. The correct response when someone opens fire is to run like mad, which they did.

I feel terrible for the victims.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by manchambo

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I was thinking about this....you'd have to be as crazy as the shooter to pull it off and beat him without injuring someone else.

I don’t know about “silly” but this is a good point. Part of being a responsible CCW is not just being Johnny On-the-Spot but also knowing when not to shoot.
In this case you’ve got a motivated killer so you have to quickly come up with a plan. You can’t just pull your gat and let the lead fly, that’ll get even more killed.
I would think that if you’re in the line of fire just keep your head down and encourage everyone around you to do the same, but if you can approach from the killer’s blind side closing the distance quickly then put an end to it.