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Colorado Shooting update - did shooter purposefully target a cinema where no firearms were allowed

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I haven't seen anyone mention this on the forum.

 

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=1976

 

The article suggests that the colorado/batman shooter didn't go to the closest 2 cinemas he instead went to the closest one which had a no-firearms policy. I am sure that we'll see argument and rebuttals of this as it is debated.

 

I can assume there could be other reasons why he specifically went to this cinema rather than another one, maybe it was the time the film was starting, maybe it is the one he went to previously etc.

 

Still, it is good to see what appears to be some further investigation going on.

 

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Interesting thought. Hopefully we learn something about him during the trial and psych evaluations, but something tells me that wont happen. The thing I am wondering about (if he did choose it because of its no-gun policy), did he go there to inflict the most damage without fearing return fire. Or did he go there protesting the no-gun and showing how dangerous that could be?

 

Anyone have any thoughts about that one?

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I doubt that the "guns" / "no guns" was the criteria he used for theater selection. More likely it was physical layout. A backdoor with access to a little use parking area, seating arrangement etc. Yes he is nuts, but he is also brilliant, so I would expect his choice to be made intelligently with an eye toward tactics - doubt if he was even aware of the "no guns" policy.

 

JMHO

 

Adios,

 

PIzza Bob

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I doubt that the "guns" / "no guns" was the criteria he used for theater selection. More likely it was physical layout. A backdoor with access to a little use parking area, seating arrangement etc. Yes he is nuts, but he is also brilliant, so I would expect his choice to be made intelligently with an eye toward tactics - doubt if he was even aware of the "no guns" policy.

 

JMHO

 

Adios,

 

PIzza Bob

 

If I were him, I would take physical layout, with a side door next or adjacent to a seldom used parking lot on top of a 'No Gun Policy'. Easy in, easy out and an entry point once he had his gear together. If the theater had a natural choke point (only one entrance to the theater) it would be a turkey shoot. Coupled with the NGP, you could create maximum chaos without fear of taking fire.

 

I don't think time was a consideration. The three theaters were probably showing the film at midnight, the other two probably didn't meet some insane criteria as a target.

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I doubt that the "guns" / "no guns" was the criteria he used for theater selection. More likely it was physical layout. A backdoor with access to a little use parking area, seating arrangement etc. Yes he is nuts, but he is also brilliant, so I would expect his choice to be made intelligently with an eye toward tactics - doubt if he was even aware of the "no guns" policy.

 

JMHO

 

Adios,

 

PIzza Bob

 

I wouldn't be so quick to doubt that it was a factor. I lived in AZ for a while where you see people carrying [i'd of course never seen this being from NY/NJ]. I wasn't a gun owner, yet I learned over time there were places a person could and could not carry. Holmes would have known this also, especially as a gun owner. It would be easy to find out which theaters prohibited guns and which didn't. It could have possibly been his most important tactical decision.

 

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Many movie theater layots are more or less the same, with a creepy backside parking lot w emergency exits.

 

I believe one of the several factors for what this lunatic idiot did was, 1. Cowardice 2. Convenience 3. Assurance of no CCW policy, to minimse risk of retailiation during a planned and what 'clown boy' hoped, was an uninterrupted killing spree.

 

I woukd highly doubt, that the other nearby theaters decided to put up 'No CCW' signs after this tragic event. Why? They'd be crazy if they did. Anti-gun philosophy, Constituional 'revisionists', Mainstream Media, etc, does not compare w 'boots on the ground reality' that CCW is just one element of a real world deterrent against hostile, random, mass violence.

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