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[drakyndra]

At least 10 people were shot dead at a Dark Knight Rises premiere in the US.

...What the actual fuck is wrong with people?

I was going to get around to doing a reviewy thing of the film (I really liked it, though I can see why some people wouldn't), but after hearing that...

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[transient_words]

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That's just ):

I don't think there are any words for this :/

[drakyndra]

I know, it's just so immensely fucked up.

[neadods]

I'm waking up to the news and I can't even... Why? WHY?

[drakyndra]

Because a big movie premiere is the perfect way to get a whole lot of unsuspecting victims shut in a room.

Why beyond that... I couldn't possibly understand.

[author_by_night]

I know. Was anyone we know there??

The whole thing is just SICK. How can people do such a thing??

[drakyndra]

No-one I know of was in the state - but then with a lot of my internet friends, I don't know a lot of detail about where they live.

And hopefully, since they guy is in police custody, they can dig a motive out of him. Not that it changes that this is clearly the work of a sick mind.

[fire_rose17]

It's really surreal for me because I have family near there. I mean, they used to live in Aurora. None of them were in that movie theater, but they did live somewhat nearby.

It's like the time I came home from the Twin Cities to find on the news that a major bridge collapsed there. I wasn't on the bridge, but I was there around that time.

[drakyndra]

I've never really had anything like that happen - closest has been a street in Egypt that had a bomb go off a couple of weeks after I visited. Though I suppose the fact that most of family lives in Australia, and we seem to have less of that sort of thing going on, touch wood.

The problem is with a lot of my online friends I don't really know enough about where they live to know if I should be worried for them.

[fire_rose17]

I live in Minnesota (hence, the Twin Cities), so Colorado is a fair distance away, but I did vacation there last month, and I was close to Aurora.

One of the injured was a three month old baby. Thankfully, she's going to be fine, but stuff like that just makes me sick. Apparently the theater is only twenty miles away from Columbine too.

[drakyndra]

Yeah, anywhere you are close to know it's weird to hear about in this sort of context.

[taithe]

Holy shit. What's worse is that people thought it was a movie-related stunt at first and stayed in their seats... :(

I don't have anyone in Denver, but my heart goes out to all the victims of this senseless killing.

[drakyndra]

I know. If that was intentional, the gunman was a sick fuck (not that he isn't a sick fuck for doing that to start with). I also heard they found his apartment rigged with booby traps and containing bombs.

It's so horrible. All those poor people, just wanting to go have a night at the movies.