Gunman kills 12 at 'Dark Knight Rises' screening - Page 20

Crystazul · #**191** 07-27-2012, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by KKreme15

Have you ever been shot while wearing a bullet proof vest?

No, but I am going to go out on a limb and say someone pumped with adrenaline like this guy fulfilling his role as "The Joker" is going to keep firing at the audience and not say, "Oh wow that hurts I guess I should stop shooting and turn myself in now."

For someone who has such a strong distaste for snarky replies you have been making a lot of them recently.

KKreme15 · #**192** 07-27-2012, 01:07 PM

To the whole discussion about if someone were concealed carrying in the theater: Colorado is one of the most gun friendly states in the union. You're just not allowed to carry at a place that requires admission.

DiscoGary · #**193** 07-27-2012, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by yifter

I think Mr. Williams would have made the situation worse had he been in the theater in Aurora, CO and decided to use his handgun.

Nope.

yifter · #**194** 07-27-2012, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DiscoGary

Nope.

You're right Gary, old man with gun can't knock out a kid from 5 feet with an entire magazine but would probably do better against someone in body armor with an AR-15 in a dark, tear-gas-filled theater, with 500 screaming people running around.

What a fvcking joke.

runxc6792 · #**195** 07-27-2012, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Crystazul

No, but I am going to go out on a limb and say someone pumped with adrenaline like this guy fulfilling his role as "The Joker" is going to keep firing at the audience and not say, "Oh wow that hurts I guess I should stop shooting and turn myself in now."

For someone who has such a strong distaste for snarky replies you have been making a lot of them recently.

The point of the vest is to stop the bullet, not dilute the impact. The impact of a bullet traveling at that speed is like getting hit HARD with hammer. And the vest spreads the impact out too so its not concentrated in one area but throughout the entire chest.
Source- friend's Dad in NYPD

SGT. RAPTOR · #**196** 07-27-2012, 06:16 PM

we need us some vest piercing bullets made out of silver and some tytanium alloy. that or rpg's, then the world would truly be a much safer place where criminals could not hide behind their vests. i think i should be a political engineer or something like that, i could make everyone hold hands and dance around a giant campfire.

VO2MAX · #**197** 08-06-2012, 10:20 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/james-holmes-p...opstories.html

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The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes made contact with a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about her patient's behavior several weeks before Holmes' alleged rampage, sources told ABC News.

The sources did not know what the officer approached by Dr. Lynne Fenton did with the information she passed along. They said, however, that the officer was recently interviewed, with an attorney present, by the Aurora Police Department as a part of the ongoing investigation of the shooting.

Fenton would have had to have serious concerns to break confidentiality with her patient to reach out to the police officer or others, the sources said. Under Colorado law, a psychiatrist can legally breach a pledge of confidentiality with a patient if he or she becomes aware of a serious and imminent threat that their patient might cause harm to others. Psychiatrists can also breach confidentiality if a court has ordered them to do so.

Now the police officer that he reported this to has single handedly screwed this whole case. I truly cannot stand people that don't take a psychiatrist seriously, because outcomes like this occur.

Edit: Also, this was a UNIVERSITY policeman according to the title. Now this brings the liability solely on the University and specifically their police department. A massive overhaul is in order.. The only thing they have going for them is that he didn't do the assault on campus.