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Ah, hell no.
-o- Batman US cinema shooting: Fourteen dead in Denver
I've just heard about the shootings at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado, and I'm dreading the fall-out. Someone is certain to blame the movie, and "violent entertainment" in general, and others will cry out for more gun controls - but one thing is, and will remain absolutely certain: you cannot legislate out of society anyone who single-mindedly goes out to kill the innocent, to the point of amassing their own armoury. Why this has happened, perhaps no-one will ever know, even though I have heard that the perpetrator is in custody - I think it's going to be purely an issue of personal power; he could take the lives of many in his hands, all in one place, and snuff them out.
As is always the case with such awful events, it could have been far, far worse - but for the families of those affected, nothing could be further from the truth. My heart goes out to them all.
-o- Batman US cinema shooting: Fourteen dead in Denver
I've just heard about the shootings at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado, and I'm dreading the fall-out. Someone is certain to blame the movie, and "violent entertainment" in general, and others will cry out for more gun controls - but one thing is, and will remain absolutely certain: you cannot legislate out of society anyone who single-mindedly goes out to kill the innocent, to the point of amassing their own armoury. Why this has happened, perhaps no-one will ever know, even though I have heard that the perpetrator is in custody - I think it's going to be purely an issue of personal power; he could take the lives of many in his hands, all in one place, and snuff them out.
As is always the case with such awful events, it could have been far, far worse - but for the families of those affected, nothing could be further from the truth. My heart goes out to them all.
