The tragedy in Aurora
Yesterday, as most of us slept, some folks took in the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. One half hour into the movie, a young man, James Holmes, 24, took the lives of 12 innocent people and changed the lives of many, many more. This was a planned attack, there is no denying that fact and it was carried out in a calculated and swift manner. This individual has a screw loose and yet, looking at the commentaries on the various stories, some people want to blame everyone and everything but the man responsible for this reprehensible, horrific and senseless act. Among the dead that have been confirmed and the families notified are a Sailor who was 27, a young man who was celebrating his birthday and the next day would have celebrated his first wedding anniversary; a young sports reporter who had narrowly escaped another shooting in Toronto only to be gunned down in Aurora. A young man who threw himself in front of his girlfriend and her brother to shield then from the gunfire was ...