12 Killed, 59 Wounded In Colo. Theater Shooting

Tom Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School where he has been searching franticly for his son Alex Sullivan who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see “The Dark Knight Rises,” movie where a gunman opened fire Friday, in Aurora, Colo. (AP)

BY: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Colo. – Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of them at the theater.

Another 59 adults and children were wounded.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says there were four showings of the movie at the time and all were sold out. He did not know how many people that amounts to.

Oates says investigators are confident the gunman acted alone.

Police arrested 24-year-old James Holmes, whose apartment four miles away was booby trapped.

Oates says Holmes wore body armor, used an assault rifle, a shotgun and a Glock handgun.

He says Holmes’ car was parked in back of the theater.

Guest:

Megan Verlee, Colorado Public Radio reporter

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Earl Williams

On your show today, a young woman said she was afraid her grandmother wouldn’t like her writing…I didn’t hear the whole conversation. Afterwards, the announcer said we could read her writings on this website. I can’t find it anywhere…could you tell me where it is? thanks.
Harrykarmun

you say “Nra” you don’t say “over 3 million law abiding american citizens who are nra members” you neglect to mention that states with concealed carry laws have lower crime rates, and that cities with strict gun control laws have higher crime rates.there are over 20,000 gun control laws in america.none of them has been proven to save lives or reduce crime.
Jim

Is NPR a pawn to mainstream media?

Okay so we can’t do a show about that.

I am absolutely astonished, as the guest points out, the cycle keeps on occurring, even though “we” (nay, “our” professional and mainstream media, and it’s demon spawn on the internet) invariably begin to point fingers at the second amendment.

I know. That is the gut reaction from the majority of ppl who believe the Constitution itself is protected by God himself as a personal inherent given from cradle to crypt.

The reason I’m astonished though, is that two things are conspicuously absent from these first throws of any such post tragedy debate.

1. The mainstream media’s obvious bias toward the crockadile tears bias. That, with the equally obvious indicators of which single minded right wing influences now control the MSM on an almost completely global basis.

2. The simple fact that we all slap kids on the back when they emulate positive things we see in the media, as adults, which runs – per 10 million US families – maybe as high as 23% by my reckoning, for the average tv raised American family —- always remains sacrosanct, as a factor in this study? The media CAN be, and SHOULD be ascribed to the parties which own it. And parallels can be drawn there by persons better trained than I, in the professions or “sciences” if you will, of advances in psychologically oriented operations and studies.

Look. Wait. I happen to be stuck with Direct TV. The 2012 Red Sox season is a write off. That leaves us with ‘The Smoking Gun’s’ ‘World’s Dumbest’ series when AMC or TBS, Discovery or History are all caught sleeping on the job.

Sure thing. Let’s not pay attention to the extent of the control of modern day media. Let’s trust the owners of the media are intent on quadrupling the global population so as to line their own pockets. Absolutely. Sure thing. Suppose the MSM owners are as naive as our post war parents were.

These discussions must not be reduced to the level of normal safe media recommended reactionaryism, friends. 96% of us now, were brought up to rely on the MSM.

Now each offspring in too many Worldwide “families” feels the constitution entitles them to a 1:1 yacht ownership ratio. Their “inallienable right”, or as an essential reward for towing the new world order, substituted for any old tossed-off relic of any “American” line of nouveau global “planetarinasim”?

This I gather is a good enough maxim for the long range survival of a balanced economic human system in the global versus soveriegn context. For some conniving insatiables, cunning enough to prey upon such trust, we are but a herd of sheep.

Why do I tolerate how my DTV playlist includes 20 Religion channels, 20 DIY whatever channels, 20 infomercial channels, particularly where I’m left to believe Dish is pretty much gonna be a mirror image of the same false 2-choice paradigm we are seeing in politics?

3. Meanwhile, at no point, will our best ever NPR scouts dare to raise the scenario of how current national restrictions on concealed carrying requirements, probably did manage to maximize the death toll in this tragedy. Simply because nobody else in that theater was guessed (by the perpetrator) or expected to be carrying a weapon.

This story has two sides.

I submit the other side of the 2nd Amendment debate is being wholly suppressed.