Special Comment on the Colorado Theater Shooting.

The question is always why, as in, why did this happen? The answer is always hard to figure out. Sometimes, we don't get an answer at all. There is no reason why the questioning should stop at why. Why not go to what, as in, what could we do to prevent another one of these shootings? If you're the gun lobby, your answer is nothing or some crazy idea that if people had more weapons, that someone could have stopped this shooting. Enter Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX).


"It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?"


Louie Gohmert said this only hours after the shooting, probably somewhere around 10 in the morning. This was, of course, before the fact came out that the shooter was wearing body armor with a riot helmet and gas mask on. All in black. So, why don't we just say that we didn't know this, kind of like Louie Gohmert. What if there were more people in a crowed dark theater, while the movie was at a shooting scene, had a weapon. Could they have fired a shot that could have killed this guy that was near the exit? No. The reason? People in the theater thought this person was part of the movie. They thought this was some special thing that happened for this speical event. Even after the fact he started shooting, people were running and trying to get out of the way of the bullets that were coming near them.


And anyway, you're going to a movie. Why the fuck do you need a weapon?


This shooter had a 2 handguns, a shotgun and an AR-15 with him...all legally purchesed. He also had 3,000 rounds of .223 (AR-15 ammo and 3,000 rounds of other bullets in his car...also all legally purchesed. The guns were purchesed from stores that were nearby and the bullets were purchesed online. Because he had no felonies or prior convictions, he could get these things pretty easily. It has came out that the shooter had purchesed the body armor, gas mask, and riot helmet all online, too.


The shooter was described, by people who knew him, as a smart person who did well in school, but was a loner. I'm pretty sure being a loner doesn't make you go crazy and shoot people. It had to be something else, but we may never know what that something else would be. He had explosives in his arpartment, he told the police after he was arrested. What he didn't tell them, and what would come to light later on in the morning, was that he booby trapped his apartment, so if anyone were to enter through the front door, the explosives would go off. If you didn't hear it yet, the shooter had rigged some sort of radio or stero system to go off, with tencho music, at midnight and shut off at 1 o'clock in the morning. If someone were to open the door, the explosives would have went off. Thankfully, this sick bastards wet dream of more people tragically killed, didn't happen.


The question still stands. What could we do to prevent another one of these shooting? Legislation on gun control would be a good idea. Of course, the gun lobby would not like that and would spend millions of dollars of trying to make sure the legislation gets repealed. The gun lobby, the NRA, doesn't care how many people get killed, just like they couldn't care about the people of Colorado after the 1999 Columbine High School Shooting and held a meeting of the NRA in Littleton. Certainly, just like after that shooting, much like this shooting, it won't stop the NRA from wanting even more people to become gun owners...no matter what the cost.


I'm no Keith Olbermann, but I did my best with this.


Thank you for reading.


Shydude89.