Posted on 07/20/2012 7:54:35 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
I have a CCW permit and use it for trips into Tucson. The city overall is fairly safe, but I’m usually traveling thru the liberal part - which is where all the crime is.
How he paid for it without a job.
Hmmmmm.
Follow the money.
Where did he get explosive expertise to know how to rig his apartment?
boots, there have been so many conflicting and contradictory reports today on this, head is spinning. Starting to doubt what am thinking have read ... LOL.
He had a job as a research assistant, and his family is obviously pretty wealthy.
Students are still bombarded with credit card offers, I presume. His apartment was cheap.
Turns out his “tactical vest” cost $106.00, ordered on-line.
It took me 5 seconds on Google to find this page:
http://www.bombshock.com/weapons_combat/traps_mines/booby_traps.html
When I went back on business in the 70s, the "combat zone" had moved from Denver's Skiddy Street to East Colfax.
Now, I would be cautious about visiting the neighborhood of our 1960s church in Aurora -- much less messing around on Colfax at night...
University (where James Holmes was and just across the street from his apartment building) and Children's Hospital took over Fitzsimons Army Med Center some years after it closed. They've bulldozed a lot of the surrounding motels, trailer parks, business on the south side of Colfax just outside the campus. There are new businesses that have and are popping up. Still, the area of North Aurora, in general, is lower income and more crime.
There are a lot of events inside and outside of our family converging and we are strongly considering a move. Husband and I have lived in this area most of our lives--he since he was 1 and me since I was 7. It's taken me a long time to get to this point, but it seems like the stars are aligning. This event is just one more thing to spur us on. Still, lots of memories here and family so even if we move to another town in CO it's going to be kinda sad for me.
I think I heard there were three Military men in the audience.
(among the wounded) And if the Jihad at Ft. Hood is any example it seems risky to suppose a much different outcome.
IMO the root problem is we live in a society that has rejected for the most part it’s foundation as a Religious and Moral people.Rejected the idea that there are two forces that control a man those being the Bible or the bayonet.I suppose the shooter represents the current situation where the people are subjected to the fear of the police more than they are the instruction of the Sacred Writings
Folks, when posting, writing articles or calling/writing representatives and talk radio, please set the terms of this Colorado event as MASS MURDER and not ‘tragedy.’
It was not a force of nature, outside man’s control, but murder, facilitated and exacerbated by: gun-free zone policies, dilution of 2A rights, civility and courtesy in society, and entertainment that values more and perverse violence as art—which in turn influenced an already sick, warped mind.
It is quite literally a perfect demonstration of what happens to an unarmed society. It’s just that the murderer wasn’t LEO or military. The people sitting in a movie theater were fish in a barrel.
It is hard to second guess what I would have done or anyone in that situation. I certainly don’t want to do that with these victims.
However, our society is less and less focused on individual responsibility, responding to bad behaviors in the public sector, a sense of morality that is not “relative” and a mind set that is focused on “I will stand up for myself and my family and comminty!” Just look at the ‘discussion” about the right to stand your ground in the Zimmerman case.
exactly right you are!
We are constantly told that we are not to decry bad behaviors of citizens nor expect appropriate legal responses. Told that murders on the streets of chicago are because the people are black, or poor( poor Black people who had it a lot rougher in the 30’s or 40”s didn’t shoot each other in the streets.)
Even at a less “dangerous” level, society says it is ok to harrass people on the subway, to look and act like a “thug”, to call a teacher a MF or tolerate hideous language in rap music.
Regardless of one’s religion or belief system...the Christian or Jewish or Buddhist faiths have been a civilizing force..and that is now dismissed at best or even denounced.
Great thoughts and full agreement boots!
:)
Tnx
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