Posted on 07/25/2012 9:30:30 AM PDT by ColdOne
AURORA, Colo. – James Holmes, the accused gunman in last Friday's midnight movie massacre in Colorado, mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the parcel sat unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com.
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“He luckily chose guns over bombs. Bombs would have been far worse.”
Actually, he chose both! His apartment was highly boobytrapped. He had set a timer to turn on the stereo blastingly loud at just about the time of his theatre attack. Neighbor complained, and noticed the door was unlocked. He planned to blow the building up! I believe I read the cops said there were enough explosives to also take down neighboring buildings!
There are only three explanations for that package.
1. It is planted evidence.
2. No one saw it because it sat there
3. Someone saw it and put it there after the fact.
None of this explains why Holmes sent this to someone BEFORE the event when it is possible said Professor would have stopped the event from happening.
Something tells me they have plenty, Eaker.
Well...
A Chinese made AK, all polymer (heavier than wood), with a fully loaded 100 round drum magazine weighs 15.5 pounds, not 40+ pounds.
Romanian SAR1 with a milled steel receiver, full polymer stock and furniture, original trigger group (also milled), steel gas piston, with a 100 rd. stamped steel drum mag and 100 rd. of 125 gr. FMJ lead core ammo weighed easily over 40 lb.
You can quibble over models all day. I’m basing this off of my experience firing this specific rig. I’m not saying they’re all going to be the same.
The drum and AR-15 rifle would have weighed less than ten pounds.
I have shot my pistol grip 12ga with one hand and and it wasn’t that big of a deal. The hand that pulls the trigger takes 99% of the recoil anyway the other hand is just to balance it.
He knew enough to set a “timer” for his music, yet counted on a passerby to initiate the bomb(s)?
The timer was likely nothing more than a clock radio with external speakers. He had no sophisticated bomb making skills as alluded to by LEOs at his apartment as evidenced by the fact the apartment is still there.
” his mother when called telling whoever was on the line “you have the right person.” (or words to that effect). This tells me the parents were aware of what a nutcase this son might be.”
You’re a bit behind on the news. Mother refuted that report. Said a reporter called her at 5:45 AM, and asked her is she was the mother of James Holmes of Aurora Colorado.. Did not tell her anything else. She was completely unaware of the crime. She answered that “You have the right person,” referring to herself as being the guy’s mother.
See post 109...not going to keep replying here on out.
So the prosecutor would attempt to win the case by willfully suppressing evidence? That would get the first conviction tossed out pretty quickly.
The shipping weight of a 500-round case of 7.62x39 ammo is 19.5 pounds, which figures to be a little under 4 pounds for 100 rounds. And I'm very familiar with AK drum mags, and their empty weight is not 36 pounds. The AK rifle weighs 10.5 pounds, the drum mag weight is probably one or two pounds at most, plus 4 pounds for the ammo makes the total around 16 pounds, or twice what a gallon of milk weighs.
You ever fired a 12 ga. shotgun with a pistol grip with one hand?
Yep. Then again, I'm a big guy (there's a reason I'm called papa bear).
Whom else do they have as a suspect?
Yoem Pyo Lee?
That's unfortunate.
Maybe you should work up to that sort of thing from a lower level.
News outlets always use this term. If they don't, sleazy defense attorneys will claim that their client has been tried and convicted by the media and can't get a fair trial.
That's all. Nothing to get excited about.
*sigh*
Fine, I’m done arguing this damn point over weight. The point I’ve been trying to make here is that it’s completely impractical to use a drum mag in CQB when a standard mag and good aim are going to net you better groups.
As far as the shotgun, I must be the only fat asshole in the entire world who lost control of a pistol-grip 12 ga. at the range. I’m 6’2” 300+ lb. I’m not a small man.
The guy was a nutcase. Nothing He did was practical. Hence the use of a drum magazine.
He is being held because he is accused of a very serious crime. He is suspected of committing a horrific act, and is deemed by a judge to be a danger to society. He can be held until he has his day in court. You don’t have to be convicted to be held.
Look, we all know the bastard did it. He will either get life in prison, life in a mental institution, or the death penalty. He never walk the streets again. But we must honor the legal process. It is a guarantor of liberty.
Heh.
He did drop out. He filled out the paperwork. The University had not finished processing the withdrawal.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21140571/cu-officials-defend-academic-personal-support-available-holmes
Here is a link and a few more. No guns involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck
And a mass murder that didn’t happen because the bomb went off ahead of time. BILL AYERS’ friends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169
Ayers’ then-girlfriend Diana Oughton, along with Weatherman members Terry Robbins and Ted Gold, were killed when a bomb they were constructing exploded unexpectedly. That bomb had been intended for detonation at a dance that was to be attended by hundreds of Army soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Ayers himself attested that the bomb would have done serious damage, “tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too.” Notably, Ayers’ fingerprints were found at the bomb-making site, along with an assortment of anti-personnel weapons, stabbing implements, C-4 plastic explosive, and dozens of Marxist-Leninist publications.
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