[Lera]

Staged? By who? How do you “stage” a mass murder?

He did not come up with this on his own .

His shooting spree is a copy of what the Joker did in a mid 80's comic book by Frank Miller . That's why it looks staged.

My guess is he is comic book fan and probably has schizophrenia
If I was the gambling type I would lay odds that he does drugs too and was starting to have difficulty cutting the hours needed to get through medical school.

[doc1019]

He did not come up with this on his own.

Why not? He was considered a brilliant student by his professors, verging on genius (FOX news). I don't know many geniuses but I'm sure any run of the mill genius could come up with this idea on his own. Just say'n

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

I wonder if he was one of those Comic-Con fanatics.

[bigdaddy45]

That doesn’t mean its “staged”. That means its a copycat crime. “Staged” means faked. This was most definitely not faked.

[reed13k]

Wrong - the referenced story by Miller “The Dark Knight Returns” that has been making the rounds from the late 80’s was not a joker scene but from a book that related Gotham years after Batman had retired. The scene depicts a man in a porn theater driven to act out his paranoid schiz mind on the crowd. The last panel of the page is the news attempting to tie him to Batman in some way to deflect the downfall of Gotham since Batman left the scene. No Joker.

It’s a reach by a number of people to co-opt the comic form (because of the recent explosion of movies - since hollywood has no original ideas) to explain the idiot similar to the attempt to tie video games or rock music to the ills that avail us at one time or another.

The guys a nut end of story.

[JudgemAll]

I know a liberal friend who is obsessed with the Batman “Revenge” theme. His whole bedroom’s previous displays have been completely replaced with themes of revenge and Batman. It was very creepy. Now he is upset his character or his theme looks bad because of that massacre... wow.