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Combat experience is different than sitting in a movie theater during an action movie. In combat you are expecting the worst. In a movie theater you are sitting around, relaxed, watching a movie. He could have been eating popcorn, had greasy fingers and dropped his gun. He could have been making out with his girlfriend or wife or boyfriend (who knows) at the time and not been paying attention.
You don't know what you are going to do in any situation. You can guess, you can speculate but you never truly know. Again, he could have been the first person shot, his own gun could have been shot, it could have jammed or a thousand other possibilities.
When people go through combat training it is for specific scenarios or for certain terrain and environments. I doubt any of the training this anonymous forum poster involved a movie theater, tear gas, semi-automatic weapons and hundreds of people running around screaming like crazy trying to escape the theater.
I agree that it would have taken a very level headed, able to stay relatively calm person to even think of getting a shot off, then what are the chances of that person being present, let alone armed and having a clear shot. It would have been a lucky chance for that scenario to play out. It takes intense training with the proper equipment to pull it off, even military personnel trained in this situation, would be ill equipped, even if armed, to handle this situation. The only chance I can see, is if someone who was armed was hiding behind some seats, very close to the shooter and could get a shot off to the head. Again, what are the chances?
A lot of news is going to come out that's going to dispell the myth that he was an invincible terminator cyborg sent from the future to destroy mankind.
He didn't have armor (tac-vest)
He didn't have tear gas (smoke grenade)
He had a cheap milsurp gasmask that fogs up like h*ll
His gun jammed (dummy used jam-prone drum mags)
etc.
My concern is those six students and their university monitors and medical neurology. The most bizarre kind of university project I've ever heard of. What's going on behind closed university doors with federal grants?
WHY did he want to do something to make himself infamous?
These are important questions.
Who cares? Why do we need to study the psyche of this guy? It does not do anything to prevent this type of stuff from happening. It is all some weird zoo-like exhibition. I don't care if he's crazy or not. He's a violent/murderous type of crazy and he is of no benefit to society.
Who cares? Why do we need to study the psyche of this guy? It does not do anything to prevent this type of stuff from happening. It is all some weird zoo-like exhibition. I don't care if he's crazy or not. He's a violent/murderous type of crazy and he is of no benefit to society.
Agree 100%, and when he is convicted, then kill him, I don't want to see anyone who commits this type of crime, alive so that we tax payers can give him 3 meals a day and rights to read books, play on the computer, etc. and yes, he is a menace to society...and yanno what, this business of his lawyers trying to prove him mentally ill? I don't care, and enough is enough, if your mentally ill and you commit this type of henous act, you shouldn't be exempt from any death penalty b/c your mentally ill, period. and, I don't want to see him on death row for 80 years either, lets get down to business and make our laws more repsected and carried out. Build more prisions, and get these people off the streets.
Who cares? Why do we need to study the psyche of this guy? It does not do anything to prevent this type of stuff from happening. It is all some weird zoo-like exhibition. I don't care if he's crazy or not. He's a violent/murderous type of crazy and he is of no benefit to society.
Exactly. The only ones that want to drag this out for eternity is the media and our court/prison system.
He really is no different than a rabid dog. Have a quick trial and put the piece of excrement to death.
No need to waste tax dollars on him - use that money in a productive way to help the families of the
victims who have been traumatized.
The gun toters are going to hate me for saying this but if that sheltered, malnourished lunatic had to buy his arsenal from the criminal element, there's a good chance he'd have been robbed and dumped in a garbage drum.
Who cares? Why do we need to study the psyche of this guy? It does not do anything to prevent this type of stuff from happening. It is all some weird zoo-like exhibition. I don't care if he's crazy or not. He's a violent/murderous type of crazy and he is of no benefit to society.
Because studying and understanding people like this leads to a better society. It helps law enforcement to understand how people like this tick, it helps the medical community to understand what leads people down this path, it helps society as a whole when we can understand and attempt to prevent things like this.
Can we 100% prevent this stuff? Probably not. But studying and understanding why one person goes off the wall and kills innocent people in a movie theater while another person does not advances our understanding of how the human brain works. Why wouldn't you support that?
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