What drives a person to go into a cinema and murder innocent people.....

[MrSplitshot]

That "NO FIREARMS" sticker on the door really stopped the whackjob from walking into the theater with his guns, didn't it?

When you ban guns, you just take them from the hands of law abiding citizens who can use them for good. The crazies and nutjobs and criminals obviously don't care about the law anyway.

Very sad what happened in Colorado...horrible...and the media just trips over themselves to talk about how his weapons were an assault style rifle, a Glock pistol, and a 12 gauge shotgun...as if it has any relevance at all. The problem was the person on the trigger, not the weapons used...but some people are never going to get that.

[MrSplitshot]

And you know, I'll add this...because all of this coverage of the tragedy in Colorado has got me kind of torn up and thinking about things...

The sad fact is that things like mass-shootings, bombings, terrorist activities are sometimes the price we pay for the freedoms we enjoy. We can debate it for hours, but more gun control isn't going to prevent shootings like this. I'll also concede that the real chance of a legally-armed citizen actually stopping a mass-shooting by fighting back is rather low, unless it's someone with good training - Though I still like those odds better than sitting back and doing nothing. Lastly, nobody wants all of our public spaces to be secured like fortresses with metal detectors and surveillance that prevents the freedom to move about as we please. Unfortunately, this means that when someone mentally unstable snaps and wants to kill a bunch of people, they have plenty of opportunities to do it.

I don't know what to say other than that.

God bless all the families affected by what this SOB in Colorado has done.