Court hears details of Colorado theater massacre

World Jan. 08, 2013 - 06:18AM JST ( 7 )

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Elbuda MexicanoJan. 08, 2013 - 10:41AM JST

What a lovely hair color! Idiot! Give him the death penalty ASAP!
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slumdogJan. 08, 2013 - 11:49AM JST

The alleged attack

The attack is not alleged. It happened.
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yabitsJan. 08, 2013 - 01:18PM JST

The mental case obtained his guns legally, right?
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Herve Nmn L'EisaJan. 08, 2013 - 03:10PM JST

" shooter James Holmes met with not one, but at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado prior to the massacre. How long he met with each one and the depth of their involvement is not clear, but it adds to the picture of Holmes being clearly on their radar in the time period leading up to the shootings." His name was brought to the attention of the university's Behavior Evaluation and Threat Assessment team or BETA for short. A flow chart released by the university shows guidelines for action that could be followed if a person is deemed a direct threat.

"University of Colorado campus police were contacted at least for a background check on Holmes, but what happened from there is not clear."

" Dr. Richard Martinez, a director of forensic psychiatry with Denver Health Medical Center, said: "At the moment you determine that there is a credible threat here, a credible possibility, the duty to warn is triggered if you will."

There were clear indications that this individual was mentally unstable, including the likelihood that at least one mental health professional was aware there was risk to himself or others, but the system failed. He could have just as easily strapped on a suicide bomb vest and killed more people. He indeed intended to kill or injure police at his booby-trapped apartment as well. Of course, this person should have been locked up before he actually harmed others. That's the true failing in the situation. Many signs were missed, or simply not heeded.
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sailwindJan. 08, 2013 - 03:11PM JST

The mental case obtained his guns legally, right?

Along with a whole lot of other things that can be obtained legally including gasoline.

“This would be one of the first times . . . we have ever seen what we can describe as a house bomb in the United States,” ex-FBI Agent Ray Lopez told CNN a day after Holmes, 24, made his bizarre first court appearance.

The explosives-packed pad of accused Colorado killer James Holmes looked like something in war-torn Iraq or Afghanistan, not a US suburb, an FBI expert said yesterday.

Holmes’ 800-square-foot, third-floor apartment in Aurora was rigged with 10 gallons of gasoline — divided among glass containers and cans — 30 homemade grenades and hoards of other incendiary devices designed to blow up when the door opened.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/aptlikewarzonecJpu3kT0m4t1tZ0hNKzxnO
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Herve Nmn L'EisaJan. 08, 2013 - 04:35PM JST

Sail, Exactly! Did he buy that gasoline legally? How about all the other doodads? All that stuff should be illegal, right? ;p
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yabitsJan. 09, 2013 - 06:43AM JST

Along with a whole lot of other things that can be obtained legally including gasoline.

Gee, all the billions of gallons of gasoline sold and as stated above, "This would be one of the first times . . . we have ever seen what we can describe as a house bomb in the United States."

There is, however, probably a very good reason to regulate the sale of napalm and incendiary explosives.

The mental case did acquire his guns legally, right? The "system" that allows mental cases to acquire his guns and some of his other "stuff" should be corrected to make things much, much tougher for people like Holmes.