or maybe it was aliens......
Posted on 07/23/2012 2:42:55 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon
My first thought is "Schizophrenic with psychotic break."
Usually those types have political delusions as well as any other. I expect we'll be hearing that this nutcase could be seen with the Occupiers.
And all this "don't exploit for political gain" is really them begging our side not to take advantage.
And we absolutely should take as much advantage as is effective. Absolutely.
I have no doubt that he could have done it 199% on his own. First, he has a very high IQ: phi beta kappa in a “hard science.” So figuring out things like incendiary booby traps would be a snap. As far as the money needed, it’s a non-issue. If you knew you would be dead or in jail in 3 months, you could just use a half-dozen credit cards and run up your bills. Who cares about paying it off down the road? And if he had had help or training, he would NOT have used a 100 round jamamatic magazine, but would have practiced changing 100% reliable standard 30 round mags.
199% was a touch typing typo. I meant 100%.
An ROTC unit at the college or colleges he attended as a source of the body armor?
I personally think it was a ploy to look like he was taking a phone call so he could exuse himself out the emergency exit. My guess it that no one was on the other line. In his planning, he probably wondered how he could leave without drawing susupicion and figured a phone call would do that.
I don't know if he had help, but it seems like doing this alone would have been challenging.
As I understand he purchased his ticket earlier – could have even purchased on-line, he probably came into the theater looking just like any other movie goer, then before the movie started, pretended to take a phone call and went out a side exit door, propping it open somehow or even perhaps telling someone sitting next to him or near the door “Hey, I’ve got to take this phone call, when I tap on the door, would you let me back in?” then he went to his car where he had stashed everything, got into his gear, got his guns and ammo then went back inside the theater. And since there were a number of people dressed up as Batman movie characters he probably didn’t look all that out of place.
As far as his “thousands” of dollars of equipment, he had a semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun and two pistols, some sort of smoke bomb or tear gas canister, with some holsters, straps and a few pockets, that doesn’t sound like an insurmountable amount of equipment for one person to carry.
The “exotic gear” is all available on the internet if you look around. The 100 round mag tells me he did NOT have help, or the helpers would have steered him away from those jamamatics. The booby traps they “never saw before” were original to him, a high-IQ science student. To be expected from a guy with no training or “help” in demolitions. The only things not readily available on the internet are CS grenades, we’ll have to wait to see how he found or created them. Everything else, you could have ordered and shipped to your house UPS or FedEx in three days.
This morning’s web posts indicate the shooter had a $26,000/year fellowship, but at the end of last year (a couple of months ago), his college professor met with his peers at an after-finals pizza bash. The shooter was absent sparking inquiries from his peers who were told by the professor that the shooter had resigned from the fellowship because he couldn’t keep up academically.
This implies the school had forced the hand of the shooter to resign his fellowship, but will claim he resigned on his own.
If true, then this probably occurred about the same time the shooter was starting to buy the handguns. Employment opportunities for an undergrad in neuroscience who drops out of grad school probably aren’t very high. He already had suffered the labeling as a loser, when he might have been giving all he had.
News reports this morning also indicate the only reason he was captured was that his groin and neck protection wasn’t usually worn by the Aurora responders. I suspect he was wearing them as camouflage to walk away unidentified in the mayhem.
“...this guy was equipped with exotic gear by someone with connections to military equipment. SWAT clothing, explosives, complex booby-traps... c’mon, this isn’t a “lone gunman.” This is somebody who was selected for a mission, given equipment to carry it out, then somehow brainwashed into getting it done...”
Clueless author, too lazy to conduct actual research.
How do conspiracy theorists get published in NaturalNews?
oh...by coming up with godless theories about the origins of good and evil.
You dress in black, like half of the movie goers. You park your car (illegally but who cares about a ticket) just yards from the emergency exit. All of your tactical gear is staged in the trunk, in the order of strapping it on. You leave the theater and put a piece of duct tape over the latch mechanism, go to the trunk, put on your gear, and return within two minutes.
This does not take the CIA to pull off. Remember, this kid may be a loon, but he’s a very high IQ loon. Phi Beta Kappa in a hard science, on merit scholarship.
I agree with everything you said. Especially the 100 rd magazines. The first thing you find when researching those is that they jam and jam often. Buying them is a waste of money.
Also, it bothers me that people don’t think he could have purchased all this stuff on his own. Like you said, all it takes is a few credit cards. It’s not like he planned on paying them back.
Exactly. GMTA.
Setup for an insanity defense.
Okay, I’ll buy that. I wasn’t picturing him going out to his car to get this stuff. I had assumed that would be too far away and that he’d have to stash it in a hallway. If he just went to the trunk of his car and suited up, then I can see how it would be easy.
Stupid media is assuming that he told them his apt. was rigged. I heard he inadvertently dropped a hint about more deaths and they immediately checked his apt. The cops did not say he admitted anything......
I saw a picture where his car was parked like maybe 30 yards from the door.
or maybe it was aliens......
The clincher seems to have been his oral exams, a major hurdle, actually a total obstacle, to a high-IQ guy with (looks like to me) Asperger’s Syndrome or a similar pathology.
I know a lot about this for personal reasons I don’t need to go into here, but the “symptoms” reported by classmates scream this out to me. As long as he can do papers or type his thoughts one way or the other, he’s an A+ student.
But his classmates reported he NEVER spoke, except when directly questioned, and then his answeres were the bare minimum. He never “offered his thoughts.” This is a red rocket flare to anybody who knows about Aspergers, or to be PC and use the current terminology, “high functioning autism.”
He would have known from his life experience that he would totally bomb the critical oral exams he had looming. That was when he dropped out. I’ll bet a dollar that he never went to take his oral exam in front of a panel. That was his wall, his barrier.
Just my dos centavos. We shall see what we shall see.
Almost like gun advice you'd get on any number of internet gun discussion forums...
Words cannot describe.....ok, they can...stupid, ridiculous, moronic, paranoid, convoluted, childish....
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