14 killed in mass shooting at Batman screening

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One cannot even mention events like these without 'politicizing' them, at least without being absurd.  The political meaning and implications of these events are obvious to anyone, and to pretend that meaning doesn't exist is sheer doublethink.

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The shooter was James Eagan Holmes, 24, a graduate of UC, Riverside and a Ph D candidate at University of Colorado Medical.  Wow.

I suspect that there are few things more likely to push a man over the brink than being a PhD candidate.

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I suspect that there are few things more likely to push a man over the brink than being a PhD candidate.

True enough, but generally we don't have the time (or energy left, of course) to plan this kind of thing, let alone carry it out.

One suspects that he simply neglected his 'research' for a while, knowing that he wouldn't face evaluation, but rather prison (a lesser torture, no doubt).

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Unfortunately for our gun control advocates on this thread, what support they do have in Congress is actually shrinking -not growing.

No one seriously believes there will ever be gun control, Frodo, we're just pointing out that these slaughters are, given that fact, inevitable and unsurprising.