Rant number 202
Yesterday in Denver, there was a premier for the movie that everyone wants to see.
The Dark Knight - the closing chapter of Christopher Nolan's fantastic Batman trilogy has been shown at premiers all around the world - just ahead of its official release today. This morning then, dedicated fans from around the area got together to enjoy the escapism - and be the first to get to see it.
There is nothing particularly exceptional about those people. They wanted to see a movie so bad that they were willing to stay up all night for it, but otherwise they were just normal until yesterday, when 12 of them were shot dead and 59 injured by some empty idiot.
The lad's name is James Holmes and as of yet, no reasons have been given for what he has done. He did however plan what he did - as he's booby-trapped his house to make sure that his dirty secrets are hard to unearth.
This isn't the first time that this kind of thing has happened in America, and unfortunately it seems it may not be the last. You see, gun's are too easy to obtain, and they really need to change things so that they are harder to get. In Colorado, you can keep a gun at home, in your car or at work, you can have as many guns as you want over the counter - even automatics! You don't even have to wait for a gun if you have a clean criminal record.
It's just unhealthy.
Guns are meant to hurt people, badly, permanently. Often fatally. You don't need one to protect you, unless the people attacking you have guns too - and that's the problem isn't it. If you can get one as a normal citizen, you can get one as a bonkers criminal too.
This shooting is around 20miles from Colombine. A place where an equally (if not more so) horrific shooting took place back in 2004. You'd think that a tragedy of that magnitude would teach people a lesson.
But the gun nuts won't have it that ready availability of guns contributes to this sort of thing. It's constitutional...
People who do these things are sick. They make me sick thats for sure. Terrorism in any form is disgusting and this kind of petit terrorism really is the worst.
I hope that they save a really special corner of hell for people who treat their fellow man with such contempt.
Rant over.
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