Century 16 Movie House, Aurora, Colorado

[Bullwinkle]

       I have a brother who is a trauma surgeon, and he would be the last person to boast about what all he has done and seen.

      Bad taste, Diane.

      Don't leave us hangin, Marine. It don't mean nothin, not a thing.

[larryJ]

 ?  Should be  

I imagine ol Sarge is just as angry as the rest of us about all this.  But, if it makes you feel better, you go ahead and kick.

Larryj

[Diane Amberg]

So I'm the one with bad taste? I get challenged and called a liar as if I've never done anything but sit at home and paint my nails...I explain and it's bad taste? I don't mean to seem to be boasting, I thought I was just answering Jar.
Steve talks abut all the things he's done and knows how to do and is an expert in ...is he boasting? I didn't think so, I just thought it was interesting. I didn't know it was a contest. If so, you all win.

[Warph]

Once again..Tuscon. It did happen! Lots of chances, but nobody pulled out their gun and took down the bad guy.

Guns were pulled at Tuscon, Diane.  In fact, one person ran to his pickup and got his shotgun but, it was a parking lot where everyone was on the same level and it was impossible to see what was going on up front.  No one fired because of the fear of hitting innocent people. 

[Warph]

So, I Know I Left You To Die And Everything, But Do You Want To Get Hitched?
by John Hawkins

http://www.rightwingnews.com/culture/so-i-know-i-left-you-to-die-and-everything-but-do-you-want-to-get-hitched/

There have been some stories of tremendous heroism that have come out of the Batman shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Not one, not two, but three different men died shielding their girlfriends from James Holmes. Then there's Jamie Rohrs...

Jamie Rohrs, of Aurora, Colorado, took his girlfriend Patricia Legarreta to a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," as you might expect many boyfriends did as a date. In fact, in a mildly kind gesture, he also brought both Legarreta and her two young children.

But then the shooting which has rocked the nation happened, and Mr. Rohrs demonstrated that, far from being kind, he actually might be exactly the wrong person for someone to date. According to reports, Mr. Rohrs not only didn't try to protect his girlfriend or her children, but he actually rushed for the exit and got into his car, leaving them behind.

Fortunately for Leggareta, there was someone in the theater who was willing to try and help them – a 19-year-old college student named Jarell Brooks who escorted her and her children to the exit, where miraculously enough, the Leggaretas escaped the shooting virtually unharmed. Brooks, however, took a bullet to the leg.

Which brings us back to Mr. Rohrs. Despite his earlier show of cowardice, or perhaps because of it, Rohrs found his girlfriend and her kids at the hospital, and once there, he made the rather counterintuitive move of proposing marriage to Leggareta. And rather than slapping him for leaving her there, she apparently said, "Yes."

Wow. Just wow. Incidentally, after doing some more research, it's actually even worse than that.

Rohrs said he lost his 4-month-old son, Ethan, in the darkness and chaos of the theater, but got out himself. Then, once outside, he could not initially find Legarreta.

"I got to my truck and I drove across the mall," Rohrs added. "I'm going to call 911 and trying to call Patricia and it's just ringing, and every time it rings I'm like they're dead, they're dead, your whole family is dead."

Yes, Rohrs left Legarreta, her kids, and his own 4 month old baby in the theater and drove off without having the slightest idea of whether they were alive or dead while another man helped save their lives — and now they're going to get married? I make it a practice never to tell anyone whether I think they should get married or divorced, but it's hard to see how a relationship could survive that sort of thing long-term. Best of luck to them, because they're going to need it to make that work.

[Diane Amberg]

Warph...Tuscon, yes I know, that was exactly my point. It isn't as easy to get off a safe a shot in real life as it is in our heads. I keep hearing people say what they would do and it rarely ever works out that way.
I feel bad for the military people in the theater. I suspect they wish they could have done more, even having done as much as they did. Definitely some very heroic actions there. As far as the other guy. Who takes a 4 month old to Batman? Did he figure the kid would just sleep through it? Everybody enjoy hearing a crying baby if he woke up?   I just shook my head.

[jarhead]

I hope this is my final input on the matter but all I was trying to covey is all the infantry training manuals back in my day said "when ambushed---assault immediately". It worked 40 + years ago and probably still does today. I have been on the receiving end of an in-experienced leader screaming "ambush, left--get down" which we all obeyed and what did it get us ? Pinned down !!!!

[jarhead]

Who is manning the President's teleprompters anyway ? Fire that turkey. Using the Aurora massacre to ramp up his anti gun feelings he said today that AK-47s belong in the hands of our military. Uh Mr. President, it's your hero's that use AK-47s---our military use the M-16. The murderer in Aurora had an AR-15---not an AK-57 !!!

[Warph]

Who is manning the President's teleprompters anyway ? 

   

[Varmit]

LIke I've always said when it comes to firearms (or any weapon for that fact) practice, practice, and more practice...and for the love of halfcock aim SMALL!!  If you can't put 3 rounds in a circle the size of a quater at 25 yards (handgun) then keep training. 

Take the idiot in colorado. Started with the shotgun first, this was a mistake if he was looking for a high body count. Pistol first, then the shotgun then the AR.

One person with a well placed shot could have stopped this. And I don't give a damn what anyone says guns are not the problem. If they ever decide to try and take that freedom from us...well I wouldn't want to be the first couple of jackboots to come through my door.