Formodet gerningsmand bag massakre: Jeg er Jokeren

Den formodede gerningsmand til gårsdagens massakre i Aurora i Colorado, James E. Holmes, identificerede angiveligt sig selv som “Jokeren”, efter han blev anholdt.

Holmes var helt klædt i sort, taktisk kamp-gear og havde farvet sit hår rødt, da han skød ind i publikum, der var samlet for at se premieren på “The Dark Knight Rises”.

12 personer blev dræbt i forbindelse med massakren og 58 såret. Mindst 30 personer er stadig indlagt, heraf 11 i kritisk tilstand.

Ifølge politiet skød Holmes løs med en AR-15-riffel, en 12-gauge shotgun og mindst én .40-kaliber pistol. Holmes havde lovligt købt våbene inden for de seneste to måneder i forretninger i Denver. Derudover havde han købt 6000 stk. ammunition samt det taktiske kamp-gear online.

Politiet har endnu ikke kunne få adgang til Holmes’ lejlighed, der angiveligt er mineret med sprængstoffer og fælder. Man vil nu forsøge at sende en robot ind i lejligheden, og de omkringliggende bygninger er blevet evakueret.

Instruktøren Christopher Nolan betegner drabene som en meningsløs tragedie og udtaler endvidere, at han på vegne af skuespillerne og andre, der har arbejdet på filmen, udtrykker dyb sorg over tragedien, der påvirker alle i Aurora.

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#51 Highland Park 12 år siden

akerman (42) skrev:
Det ved vi jo ikke. Omvendt kan man så sige at ved at det er lovligt, så skal han registrere sig gennem talrige formularer og igennem et baggrundscheck for overhovedet at må købe, og allerede der har myndighederne så en chance for at fokusere på ham proaktivt.

Næppe eftersom han har en ren straffeattest og hverken de enkelte indkøb eller det samlede arsenal afviger fra resten af befolkningens:
"James Holmes, Aurora Shooting Suspect, Used Internet For Arsenal"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/james-holmes-weapons-internet_n_1694451.html skrev:
DENVER — In a world where Amazon can track your next book purchase and you must register to buy allergy medicine, James Holmes spent months stockpiling thousands of bullets and head-to-toe ballistic gear without raising any red flags with authorities.

[...]

"We're different than other cultures," said Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, which advocates for firearms owners' rights. "We do allow Americans to possess the accoutrements that our military generally has."

[...]

Authorities say all of Holmes' purchases were legal -- and there is no official system to track whether people are stockpiling vast amounts of firepower.

There is no restriction on the sale of bullets in the United States, except for armor-piercing rounds, which can only be bought by law enforcement, said Ginger Colbrun, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Hence the proliferation of websites offering Amazon.com-style wish-lists for hollow-point rifle rounds or tracer bullets.

There is a federal law that bars selling body armor to violent felons -- which Holmes was not -- but it is rarely used because there are is no requirement to check whether purchasers of the material have criminal records, according to Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence.

Over four months, authorities said, Holmes received more than 50 packages at his Aurora apartment and the University of Colorado medical school, where he was studying neuroscience. As the boxes piled up, he began to shop for guns at sporting goods stores -- because of the need to pass a background check to buy a firearm, they are still generally bought at brick-and-mortar locations.

On May 22, law enforcement officials said Holmes bought a Glock pistol. Less than a week later, he upgraded to a shotgun. The following week he bought an AR-15 rifle, versions of which had been outlawed under the assault weapon ban in 1994. But that prohibition expired in 2004 and Congress, in a nod to the political clout of gun enthusiasts, did not renew it.

[...]

Oates said the shooter wore a ballistic helmet, gas mask, throat-protector, tactical vest and pants -- such complete protective gear that responding officers almost mistook him for a member of the SWAT team. [...] By the time police arrived, 90 seconds later, Holmes had shot dozens of people because his rifle was modified with a high-powered drum magazine that allowed him to fire immense amounts of bullets without reloading. "It was a pretty rapid pace of fire in that theater," Oates said.

The high-capacity magazine had also been prohibited under the assault weapon ban, and even though the federal law expired a few states outlaw the devices. Colorado, which has relatively permissive gun laws, does not.

[...]

But gun enthusiasts caution against over-reacting to the massacre. Brown, of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, said he thinks citizen's access to weaponry has made the United States "a stronger country." And he doesn't see anything unusual about many of Holmes' alleged purchases.

"If I only had 6,000 rounds for my AR-15s, I'd literally feel naked," Brown said. Then he totaled up Holmes' firearms purchases: "Two handguns, a shotgun and a rifle. That's the average male in Colorado."

... as surely as there's a mouse behind your ear.

#52 Highland Park 12 år siden

Fox News af alle steder!:
"Murder at the movies: Batman didn't do this"

#53 elwood 12 år siden

Det sku da ikke The joker, det er da Carrot Top, hvilket gør det hele mere tragisk.

Bare vent til der kommer den første antydning af spil på mandens pc, så får vi balladen igen.

Edit, fik det set igennem nu, og kan se de allerede har trukket Video game kortet, overraskende not... suk.

J. J: "This is one of my Favorite shots."
Tom Cruise: "I just love this scene, and the set"

#54 Lord Beef Jerky 12 år siden

#53 Se klippet Highland Park har givet os... manden spiller WoW!

"Avatar blev skrevet flere år før Pocahontas, og dermed (forhåbentlig indlysende) også før Irak krigen"

#55 elwood 12 år siden

Mener også hende nyhedsværten er fast mål for Jon Stewart, hendes udtalelser er simpelthen så tåbelig og høre på.

#56 Lord Beef Jerky 12 år siden

#55 Haha true dat!

#57 Highland Park 12 år siden

"Christian Bale Visits Aurora, CO Shooting Victims"

#58 The Insider 12 år siden

Badass.

War. War never changes.

#59 Batsy 12 år siden

Se selv, han er squ ikke særlig slem som folk siger, nu snakker jeg om Terminator episoden, hvor alle sagde han var et svin og fortjente ikke al den succes. Jeg vil squ gå i koma hvis han besøgte mig i en hospital, især når han er en af min favoritter og idoler.

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it".

#60 Richard Burton 12 år siden

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/dark-knig...

Jeg glemmer aldrig smagen af Werners ægte!

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