This whole thing is awful and tragic on a number of levels. Tragedy always gives the media an opportunity to push ******** at 'the public'. Blaming art for psychotic acts of violence perpetrated by madmen is nothing new:
http://gma.yahoo.com/james-holmes-s...spired-batman-182624012--abc-news-movies.html
Violence like the
massacre that happened in Aurora, Colo., today is a staple of action films, including Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. A similar, now haunting, scene unfurls in "
The Dark Knight Rises" when a masked villain leads a violent gang into a packed football stadium and deploys guns and explosives on the unsuspecting crowd.
While there has been no indication as to the motives of James Holmes, the suspected 24-year-old shooter who is now in custody, new evidence suggests that he was inspired by the Batman series of comic books and/or movies.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that Holmes said "I am the Joker" when apprehended by authorities.
His hair was painted red, the same hair color of Heath Ledger's Joker at one point in 2008's "The Dark
Knight."
The AP/Yahoo never fails to go full ******. I saw another story that said he wore a bulletproof vest and gas mask 'like bane, a villain featured in The Dark Knight Rises'.
Shameful.
God Bless the victims and their families. I hope this ******* gets the justice that he deserves. This could have been any one of us here. This is all very shocking and sad.