Denver shooting

[Andrew Boulton]

I'd like to offer my sympathies to anyone affected by this senseless attack.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I am really sorry to hear what happened. What a senseless act.

I'd also like to smack the idiot commentator on CNN that gave away the ending to the new Batman movie.

 

[DangerousThing]

I've never figured out why people do such things. My sympathies go out also.

 

[Garyius2003]

We RPG players may get the shaft off of this. The media is starting to pitch that he was a gamer.



For those not in America, our media tends to grind these cases into the ground with over coverage, and pick out someone/something to blame other than the actual evil doer. Then they slam their target in mass over and over demanding legal bans or new taxes, until the politicians give in and do it.

 

[Blue Ghost]

We RPG players may get the shaft off of this. The media is starting to pitch that he was a gamer.



For those not in America, our media tends to grind these cases into the ground with over coverage, and pick out someone/something to blame other than the actual evil doer. Then they slam their target in mass over and over demanding legal bans or new taxes, until the politicians give in and do it.

I wrote about that very thing in my blog. I really hate this guy, and his freakish grin on his photo. He just made life that much harder for me. Now I have to go to parties with extra loud obnoxious music and loads of alcohol just to show I'm normal.

I swear, I'm going to sell my house, buy a Swan 90 (https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/i...IoZRxsybBJOkljIUPb3TShzKPR0LJE0Tne-aPw839kleg) and live out on the Pacific for the rest of my life ... and of course post here.

Just a heads up.

I get enough cautious looks from my neighbors already because I refuse to marry, now this goddamn nut case has to paint everyone who's into gaming and self company in a frightening light.

Thanks a lot mister James Holmes. I hope they throw you in front of a firing squad.

 

[bozzutoman]

I almost went to that midnight showing... decided to stay home and play on the PS3. Found out about the massacre about 1am. It's very mindbending to have almost been a part of this tragedy, and yet that is absolutely nothing compared to the trauma of those who were actually there.


What gets me (apart from the near-instantaneous politicizing of it) is that in interviews with witnesses, they keep asking them what they thought the shooter's motivations were...

WTF? His motivation was to kill people. Asking a victim to guess at the underlying causation is just worthless speculation.

Even the post-event talking heads, who haven't interviewed the shooter, blather on without any merit.

There're numerous factors behind such psychopathic actions, so without an in-depth analysis of this guy... trying to assert/divine what is to blame strikes me as beyond ridiculous.

 

[Carlobrand]

...There're numerous factors behind such psychopathic actions, so without an in-depth analysis of this guy... trying to assert/divine what is to blame strikes me as beyond ridiculous.

True, but it is a very human thing to try to comprehend the incomprehensible in a moment like this.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I don't think there's much to comprehend, he's just a scum bag.

 

[Hyphen]

Dear Folks -

[Trumpkin] "I dare say you two youngsters - Kings, I should say - know how to skin a bear?"
"Let's go and sit down a fair way off," said Susan to Lucy. "I know what a horrid messy business that will be." Lucy shuddered and nodded. When they had sat down she said: "Such a horrible idea has come into my head, Su. "
"What's that?"
"Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day, in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you'd never know which were which?"
"We've got enough to bother about here and now in Narnia," said the practical Susan, "without imagining things like that."

C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian.

Something I think about whenever I hear dreadful, incomprehensible events like this one, and wonder what we are doing to ourselves in society that makes us revert from "Talking Animals".

 

[Garyius2003]

I think we are okay, the meme on TV this morning was all anti-gun. For those not in America, Sunday mornings is when the media interviews politicians and push questions them into the agenda for the week.


Cynical me would think fantasy role playing is a little too close to film/TV fantasy. That was close, though. This could have been worse than the 80s D&D devil worship panic.

 

[McPerth]

Just let me add my prayers for all the victims of this senseless crime and to their families. I cannot understand some human being is capable of all this senseless killing