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Police: 14 dead in Colorado theater shooting
Associated Press ^ | A.D. 20 July 2012 | THOMAS PEIPERT

Posted on 07/20/2012 6:58:43 AM PDT by Robert Drobot

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire early Friday at a suburban Denver theater at the opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 14 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said.

The gunman, who is in custody, stood at the front of the theater and fired into the crowd about 12:30 a.m. MDT at a multiplex theater in a mall in Aurora.

"Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire," Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said at a news conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: americanpsycho; aurora; aurorashooting; banglist; batman; crowd; darkknight; iranianshooter; jamesholmes; killing; shooter; unnamed
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To: chessplayer

The You tube post of the police radio traffic had the police saying the arrested shooter was Mohammed Alam. That is why it people think its a muslim.


21 posted on 07/20/2012 7:24:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Dr. Michael Baden was commenting: we have to track guns, we have to track bullets, we have to track tear gas canisters. Every time there is a situation like this, it is predictable.


Yup. Terrible thing to think, but I think the left is happy when things like this happen because it give them more ammo to try to ban guns.


22 posted on 07/20/2012 7:24:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Diogenesis
If memory serves, some of the initial reports involved two terrorists.

Apparently some of the shots in theater #9, actually went through the wall and entered an adjacent theater. That caused people to think there was a single shooter in each of two theaters. Thus, two shooters.

23 posted on 07/20/2012 7:25:21 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: DesertRhino; All

Anyone know if the theater was a defenseless victim zone? Was it posted “no guns”?


24 posted on 07/20/2012 7:26:28 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: patriot08
http://youtu.be/zUYMn10CFjA
25 posted on 07/20/2012 7:26:28 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Fiat voluntas tua)
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To: DesertRhino

Ok, thanks.


26 posted on 07/20/2012 7:27:02 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

” But, yes, the left will claim he is a tea party member.”
_______________________________

That, or they will Zimmer him.


27 posted on 07/20/2012 7:27:10 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: ican'tbelieveit
When I turned on Fox News (which I never watch anymore)

Right? My local news was covering it at the top and bottom of the hour, but when I turned to FoxNews, it was wall-to-wall with experts, people "at the scene," etc. And the guessing, the prognosticating, the absolutely saccharine journalism was nauseating. I remembered why I hate the national news outlets.

28 posted on 07/20/2012 7:27:36 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: marktwain

Good reason to pack a little concealed life assurance.


29 posted on 07/20/2012 7:33:00 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Fiat voluntas tua)
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To: marktwain

My husband says the mall there is definitely “no guns” allowed. The theater is outside the mall. He believes the the theater is the same and thinks he remembers seeing it at
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners:
http://www.rmgo.org/


30 posted on 07/20/2012 7:33:27 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: rarestia

I have turned back to the TDF, following threads on here, and have the Aurora scanner on. Thankfully I have a dentist appointment this morning that will get me going shortly. I used to like Fox News, but yuck.


31 posted on 07/20/2012 7:34:04 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: Robert Drobot

and what will Chris Matthews have to say about the shooter?Maybe he was a fan of Sarah Palin who listened to Rush Limbaugh? Here we go again!


32 posted on 07/20/2012 7:35:03 AM PDT by Reality_News
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To: Diogenesis

See Post #14 — the report had his name, and it WASN’T this latest guy.


33 posted on 07/20/2012 7:41:33 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: Reality_News
George Steffy and Brian Ross (ABC) have already tried to connect the shooter to the Tea Party - saying there's a Jim Holmes (?) in the Aurora Tea Party.
Disgusting.
34 posted on 07/20/2012 8:18:12 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Robert Drobot

Whatever he is he is without doubt a liberal. Conservatives and Christians do not behave this way. It is my view that he should be tied to a wall and executed. PERIOD!


35 posted on 07/20/2012 8:23:35 AM PDT by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth
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To: Robert Drobot

Whatever he is he is without doubt a liberal. Conservatives and Christians do not behave this way. It is my view that he should be tied to a wall and executed. PERIOD!


36 posted on 07/20/2012 8:23:55 AM PDT by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth
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To: chessplayer

Doctor Baden is not thinking it through. We need to lock everyone down in their house every night at curfew, issue electronic bracelets, and for the newborns, chip implants. Then everybody be safe.


37 posted on 07/20/2012 8:33:19 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (If you believe what you're saying, quit making taxable income.)
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To: Robert Drobot

Horrific. Absolutely horrific. The most I can do is offer prayers for the families and those who were hurt in the shooting.

I have read that a 6 year old girl was wounded and a 3 month old baby was either wounded or killed. This little girl should have never been at this PG-13 movie, and an infant, while obviously too young to watch the movie, still could be scared or disturbed by the loud noise of the movie, so the infant shouldn’t have been there either.


38 posted on 07/20/2012 8:45:12 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Woo hoo! Another moderate candidate! Thanks GOP and voters!)
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Keep FR Running

Counter the MSM spin machine.

39 posted on 07/20/2012 8:48:12 AM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: Lady Lucky

If I remember correctly, this Doctor Baden character testified at the OJ criminal trial in 1995, as part of OJ’s extended defense team.


40 posted on 07/20/2012 8:49:59 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (January 20, 2013.....The End of an Error)
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