20 people shot at Batman midnight screening.

[Barrister]

6 year-olds definitely shouldn't be watching midnight screenings.

Apparently, there was a 3 month year old there.

[Kleves]

Breivik in Norway gave himself up.   

Sure, but he was Norwegian. They're not as experienced with mass killings as Americans are.

[Eddie Teach]

I think it is okay for our society not to provide care at midnight so that parents can hang out at a late night movie.

What about parents who work the night shift, huh? 

[Barrister]

6 year-olds definitely shouldn't be watching midnight screenings.

Apparently, there was a 3 month year old there.

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I'm watching the CNN and Fox News coverage. Already, some of the commentators are talking about violent video games and movies and how they probably influenced the shooter. 

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One last thought: You know some slimy Hollywood execs are pissed because this incident will scare some people from going to showings this weekend and therefore the movie won't set the new record for highest weekend opening gross.

Only an asshole would bring a baby to a movie.

I saw a baby get hit by a foul ball at a Reds game one time.  I wondered who the hell wants to bring a baby to a baseball game, particularly on one of the hotter days in August.

In my experience babies (in particular young babies) are actually pretty easy to take out to events.  They don't need much attention, just feed them when appropriate.  They are much easier to take places than my 2 year old is.

[Barrister]

Well, on the bright side, this might make it easier to get in to see TDKR this weekend.

I have to admit - I chuckled.   

[CountDeMoney]

Interesting how he gave himself up in the parking lot; usually mass shooting goofs don't allow themselves to be captured alive.

Breivik in Norway gave himself up.   

Was he an American goof?  No.  So STFU.

[garbon]

I think it is okay for our society not to provide care at midnight so that parents can hang out at a late night movie.

What about parents who work the night shift, huh? 

Sucks to be them.

[derspiess]

In my experience babies (in particular young babies) are actually pretty easy to take out to events.  They don't need much attention, just feed them when appropriate.  They are much easier to take places than my 2 year old is.

That's not my experience.  When Tommy was two he'd sit and watch most of the game.  He could walk, so I didn't have to carry him 100% of the time.  And like I said, this was August (which is hot down here) and at a baseball game, in a seating area where you'd expect foul balls.

[jimmy olsen]

FBI and police officer just spoke, dude's apartment really is booby trapped!

[stjaba]

An aspiring sports broadcaster was killed: http://deadspin.com/5927673/aspiring-sportscaster-killed-in-shooting-at-colorado-movie-theater

The creepy part? Apparently, she narrowly avoided a mass shooting at  a mall in Toronto a few months back. She wrote a blog on that experience:

Except:

I can't get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won't go away. I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm's way. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.

What started off as a trip to the mall to get sushi and shop, ended up as a day that has forever changed my life. I was on a mission to eat sushi that day, and when I'm on a mission, nothing will deter me. When I arrived at the Eaton Center mall, I walked down to the food court and spotted a sushi restaurant. Instead of walking in, sitting down and enjoying sushi, I changed my mind, which is very unlike me, and decided that a greasy burger and poutine would do the trick. I rushed through my dinner. I found out after seeing a map of the scene, that minutes later a man was standing in the same spot I just ate at and opened fire in the food court full of people. Had I had sushi, I would've been in the same place where one of the victims was found.

[CountDeMoney]

The creepy part? Apparently, she narrowly avoided a mass shooting at  a mall in Toronto a few months back. She wrote a blog on that experience:

You can only dodge so many mass shootings in life, man.

[garbon]

The creepy part? Apparently, she narrowly avoided a mass shooting at  a mall in Toronto a few months back. She wrote a blog on that experience:

You can only dodge so many mass shootings in life, man.

Many people don't come across mass shootings...

[jimmy olsen]

Seems like there might be a serious bomb inside that building. They've evacuated the five nearest apartments, fire crews have run houses and a hazmat team just showed up.

[Malthus]

The next gimmick after 3-D? 

[Neil]

Apparently, there was a 3 month year old there.

Hopefully the parents were killed.  Bringing a baby to a movie, and a midnight showing of a non-kids movie no less, is probably what set the shooter off.