Aurora Shootings

This shooting reminds me of what happened here in Texas many years ago.  There was somebody trying to copy cat the Terminator by driving through the front door and shooting the place up.

That killer back then, George Hennard, had a movie ticket found on him.  The movie was called Fisher King- "a darkly comic fable marked by a massacre".  It seems to me that he combined the two elements from each movie into making his own massacre.   Hennard also hated women, which jibes with the Terminator' mission- to kill a young woman named Sarah Connor.


The most recent mass murderer, James Holmes, thought of himself as The Joker in the Batman movies.

Neither of these men could blame poverty or misfortune for their killing spree.  Hennard's father was a surgeon.  Holmes was a PHD candidate.  Both were loners and were thought to be strange in their behavior.

This was particularly well planned.  Holmes used a gas mask to help himself breathe.  He used gas to immobilize the crowd.  Besides that, he wore body armor.  It was if he anticipated someone may want to stop him, so he prepared himself so as to make that more difficult.  He entered through an emergency exit, which he had exited from himself.  Even if the exit could not be re-used as an entrance, he defeated that intention by propping it open.

It should be noted that the guy is mentally disturbed.  There will be calls for gun control, but there's no need for gun control amongst the law abiding and mentally sound population.  It would make more sense to screen people a little better before allowing them to have guns.   People such as this are not being screened very well.  It is pretty obvious to somebody out there that there's something wrong with the guy.