This is a University that deals with the brain. If they knew that he was a threat why didn’t they warn the authorities? They should be held responsible for the deaths because they knew.
Is it possible they are covering up because they know that they are the ones who messed him up?
The other day I saw a photo of his car taken from the passenger side. On the front seat there appeared to be a brown rectangle. Could this possible have been the notebook mailed to the U? Someone could have mailed it hoping that it would be opened by the recipient.
Nobody “messed him up”. Serious mental illness has a biological basis and manifests itself at his age range.
Even though identified as a potential threat, there was no way to know when or where or even if he would actually go off.
Do you have a method for discovering and preventing thought-crime?
Is it possible they are covering up because they know that they are the ones who messed him up?
IMHO, you're closer to the most probable cause than most people discussing the issue.
The small group of six students and one professor at the university with whom Holmes was affiliated, are/were working on chemicals to tinker with the brains of people with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their eventual target patients were to be, or already are, combat veterans returning from combat operations.
Reportedly, their project involved injecting rodents' brains with chemicals to alter the behavior of the animals. It is not at all far-fetched to believe that their activities moved on to experimenting with human subjects, with or without official permission, with or without the knowledge or agreement of all the team members.
They knew he was going to open up in a movie theater with multiple weapons and slaughter a dozen people and wound dozens more... Seriously ?
Their assessment team do just that... assess.
Obviously he was doing things that put a flag on him, but nobody can predict the level of violence he was going to commit...they probably thought he was more of a threat to himself than the general public..
I'm not defending the guy, but you are still innocent until proven guilty....if having the signs of mental illness was a reason to hold someone or detain them, all the liberals in Congress should be under observation, some in straight jackets...
Eat snot mah yob! Translation: It's not my job! He's someone else's problem now.
There was nothing authorities could have done, even if concerned people from the university warned them.
My neighbor down the street is strange, very strange. But he’s not a criminal until he commits a crime, and in this country we don’t lock people up because they worry their neighbors or acquaintances.
The only one responsible for this crime is the one who did the act.
Try "warning the authorities" sometime.
Here's a tip: when it comes to dangerous crazy people, there ARE no authorities.
Look, when a crazy guy gets committed, an army of lawyers springs into action to sue the doctor and get the crazy guy out. There is no judge in the country who will hold a crazy guy with an IQ above 90 for more than 48 hours.
” If they knew that he was a threat why didn’t they warn the authorities? They should be held responsible for the deaths because they knew.”
Real life is not TV, and unlike the “Behavioral Analysis Unit” on the Idiot Box screen, real predictive capability is not available. However, history of Russia indicates Goobers in Gooberment agencies will use “psychiatric confinement” to control any person they do not like once they have such authority.
Why should the university be held responsible when they could not know “beyond reasonable doubt”.
May I suggest that evil simply exists, and that evil is best dealt with by those on the scene - armed citizens using their “Natural LAw Right to self defense”.
Please remember that if that movie chain had not banned guns, siad evil could have been greatly reduced.