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EXCLUSIVE: Massacre suspect James Holmes' gun-range application drew red flag
foxnews.com ^ | 7/22/12 | Jana Winter

Posted on 07/22/2012 11:35:51 AM PDT by ColdOne

BYERS, Colo. – Less than a month before carrying out the midnight movie massacre that left 12 dead, suspected shooter James Holmes applied for membership at a private gun range, unnerving the club’s owner whose calls to Holmes’ apartment reached a “creepy, weird” Batman-inspired voicemail message.

“His answering machine message was incoherent, just bizarre, really bizarre -- slurring words, but he didn’t sound drunk, just strange -- I could make out “James” somewhere in it,” Glenn Rotkovich, of the Lead Valley Range, in Byers, Colo., told

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
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To: editor-surveyor

I was on the day that Laz got “ransomed”.
I guess he was banned for some reason,
and someone offered to donate a large amount in a FReepathon to bail him out.


81 posted on 07/23/2012 8:34:18 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: thackney
Apparently you ignored the content of the post to which I was responding.

But as long as you feel good about yourself, I am happy to have helped.

82 posted on 07/23/2012 8:42:11 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: ETL

Oh, yes; thanks. . .good reminder of bad ‘things past’!


83 posted on 07/23/2012 9:04:12 AM PDT by cricket (http://voteron2012.com/)
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To: JoeFromSidney

An article said that he got a government grant to pursue his PHD and a few moviegoers in his spare time. From this I would say that we paid for his firearms and ammo. The really sad thing is that the only man who could see that this guy wasn’t right turned out to not be law enforcement, mental health professionals, college professors, or counselors, but the guy that he applied for a membership to a shooting range. In other words, a normal citizen used common sense. Kind of unusual in this world, but I was taught that it was important to have in the grand scheme of things.


84 posted on 07/23/2012 9:41:57 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Lazamataz
Cheers

Or, do you mean cheer-leaders?

85 posted on 07/23/2012 10:49:22 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
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To: NVDave

It’s better than “Toodles!”


86 posted on 07/23/2012 12:51:56 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: JoeDetweiler

People who are not very sincere.


87 posted on 07/23/2012 12:55:33 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: ColdOne
The 911 terrorists while in flight school were only interested in flying an aircraft but had no desire to learn how to land.

Remember that oldie but goodie red flag?

88 posted on 07/23/2012 12:57:34 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: FreedomPoster

Also helpful when you’re scribbling a lot of notes longhand, like making an inventory.

Nothing like getting back to your desk after a day in the field, pulling out your notes (usually scribbled on a legal pad), and repeatedly asking yourself “Is that a seven, a two, a Z...??????”


89 posted on 07/23/2012 1:27:19 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: netmilsmom; steve86
The big thing about BPD patients is they refuse to believe their diagnosis. They just walk away from it.

Not always. An ex girlfriend of mine had BPD. She not only believed it, she was proud of it. And... it worked to get her what she wanted. She could do anything and blame the 'disease'.

involve a lengthy history of stormy interpersonal conflicts and contacts with social agencies and/or law enforcement with impulsive acts

AND...she was proud of those impulsive acts, as well.

90 posted on 07/23/2012 1:29:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: nobamanomore

and he turned him down based upon a taped phone call,...without being able to see the orange hair,..like his professors were able to witness....in the Psych Neuroscience department?????


91 posted on 07/23/2012 1:32:27 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Lazamataz; editor-surveyor; ozzymandus
Dude, I think ozzy was jokin’.

"Do I look like I'm joking?"


92 posted on 07/23/2012 1:35:36 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ETL

James Holmes

Jared Loughner

Arthur Bremer

93 posted on 07/23/2012 1:37:44 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: UCANSEE2

Agree with what you say. Not at all unusual for patients with personality disorders to take pride in the condition, and as you say, skip personal responsibility and blame the disorder. But some, like narcissists, don’t do this and would never view themselves or their behavior as being flawed in any way.


94 posted on 07/23/2012 1:42:07 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: cynwoody
James Holmes

"If I had a son, he'd look just like James Holmes."


95 posted on 07/23/2012 1:45:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: traderrob6
>"there are a few Fruit Loops out their that are going to kill regardless of the means"

A short time on the Houston 610loop will give you the same conclusion.

96 posted on 07/23/2012 1:48:50 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: M1903A1
Nothing like getting back to your desk after a day in the field, pulling out your notes (usually scribbled on a legal pad), and repeatedly asking yourself “Is that a seven, a two, a Z...??????”

Especially if you are a spotter for an artillery assault.

97 posted on 07/23/2012 1:48:50 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

Ooooo, I’d say that your ex had a narcissistic subset!

What a joy she must have been to be around.


98 posted on 07/23/2012 2:54:53 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: ColdOne
"That also struck me as very, very strange,” Rotkovich said. “Who says ‘Cheers?’”

It's a generational thing related to the Internet. I remember the first time I saw somebody sign off a bulletin board with that it struck me as strange. Now it's quite familiar and I've even done it myself.

When we first started sending all the messages, it wasn't clear just how we were supposed to do it. Do we start with "Dear" or Hi" or just a name or nothing? Do we close with "Sincerely" (which sounded wrong even in letters) or something else or nothing? "Cheers" or "Best Wishes" or "Regards" were possibilities people came up with on the fly.

Now if it had been "Huzzah and Kudos!" we'd know there was something wrong. (Does that mean we have to keep an eye on Jon Stewart now?)

99 posted on 07/23/2012 3:40:22 PM PDT by x
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To: netmilsmom
What a joy she must have been to be around.

Yeah, but only about half the time.

100 posted on 07/23/2012 3:53:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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