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    Batman Premiere Shooting: Denver, Colorado 2012

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    A masked gunman dressed as the Joker opened fire at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado in 2012, killing 12 people and injuring 71 others. The 24-year-old gunman, James Holmes, had legally purchased firearms and ammunition in recent months. He booby-trapped his apartment with explosives before surrendering to police. The mass shooting reignited debates around gun control laws.

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    A masked gunman dressed as the Joker opened fire at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado in 2012, killing 12 people and injuring 71 others. The 24-year-old gunman, James Holmes, had legally purchased firearms and ammunition in recent months. He booby-trapped his apartment with explosives before surrendering to police. The mass shooting reignited debates around gun control laws.

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    A masked gunman dressed as the Joker opened fire at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado in 2012, killing 12 people and injuring 71 others. The 24-year-old gunman, James Holmes, had legally purchased firearms and ammunition in recent months. He booby-trapped his apartment with explosives before surrendering to police. The mass shooting reignited debates around gun control laws.

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    Batman Premiere Shooting


    Denver, Colorado
    2012
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    Facts:
     The masked gunman was dressed as Joker.
     Hewas armed with a Remington shotgun
    and an AR15 assault rifle and two hand
    guns.
     71 people were shot, 12 of which died.
     The gunman was 24 years old.
     Heopened fire after hurling tear-gas into
    the cinema.
    +  The shooting incident happened just 15
    minutes into the start of the midnight
    premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.
     Manythought it was a publicity stunt
    because he was dressed in a Joker outfit.
     Thegunman, identified as James Holmes,
    was a medical school drop out, previously
    studying neuroscience. He calmly
    surrendered to the police without a
    struggle.
    +  Police detectives are working on the theory
    that Holmes may have been obsessed with
    the comic book character.
     Right
    after the shooting, police officers
    were unable to enter his apartment, as he
    had booby-trapped it with explosive and
    flammable devices.
     Holmes has no previous record with the
    police, except a traffic ticket and no
    connections with any terrorist group.
     This was carefully planned.
    +  The guns used by the gunman were
    purchased legally by Holmes at stores in
    the Denver area in the past two months.
    More than 6,000 round of ammunition were
    also purchased online, according to Oates.
     Thestores where the ammunition were
    bought followed the appropriate and legal
    protocol on the sale of two weapons.
     Investigators
    said they are confident that
    Holmes acted alone.
    +  Because of this incident, once again the gun
    and violence debate ensued.
     Mayor Bloomberg of New York has waged a
    national campaign for stricter gun laws.
     On the other hand, a member of the Rocky
    Mountain Gun Owners took another view,
    stating that: “Potentially, if there had been a
    law-abiding citizen who had been able to
    carry in the theater, its possible death toll
    would have been less.”
     The
    gunman was sentenced to life
    imprisonment.
    +  During trial, part of the evidence presented
    were his diary entries, weighing if he
    should attack an airport or a movie theater.
    He rejected the airport because airports
    have “substantial security” while the
    theater he chose is “isolated” and “large”.
     Ticket sales has since lowered.
     Therehas also been a call for politicians to
    work on legislation that will require metal
    detectors at movie theaters.
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     “The message is not terrorism. The


    message is no message.”

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