Yoni the Blogger had some wonderful observations regarding John Holmes during the Monday afternoon Hugh Hewitt show: all you needed was one permit holder in the theater at the time, and all Mr Holmes needed was one shot to the face — a gas mask is not bulletproof — or a muzzle directly under the man’s chin. Frankly, these two scenarios make me smile.
That said, John Holmes is simply crazy. Period. The gun was the tool. The brain was malfunctioning. The motive was simple: the man is crazy. He is not a TEA Party member, he is not a Fascist, he is not a member of NAMBLA. The man is crazy. See above photograph of Mr Holmes in his first court appearance, Monday, July 23rd. I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
As an aside, an unforeseen element weighs in: rapper Ice-T: guns are the last form of defense against tyranny.
Many and most of the Talking Heads have/are weighing in on the Aurora shootings. Many or most of them are excreting: take guns away.
Because, after all, that most stringent of gun control is working SO well in, say, New York City. Or Washington, DC. Or Chicago, Illinois. The home town of Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Or Barry Soetoro. Choose your lie.
To more completely focus: the strictest gun laws exist in NYC. Let’s check out their statistics, shall we? Not good.
Isn’t it odd that the greatest surge in recent crime statistics — gun crime, specifically — seems to originate from the areas with the toughest gun laws?
Gun crime spiking in Montana? North Dakota? Wyoming? Pretty much any of the so-called “flyover states”? Uh: no.
Oddly enough, only in the areas where the greatest concentration of populations occur and, by this dint, the greatest number of Leftists reside.
I wonder: could there POSSIBLY be a correlation?
Nah.
BZ
Yep some of these folks opining about what they would have done in that scenario sure take a lot of stock in themselves.
Shooting a 6″ black target (Head) in a dark smoke filled room with incoming fire on your position would be one hell of a shot. But any shot that was coming toward the shooter may have been enough to save some people. We’ll never know though because nobody was armed except the coward.
Crazy indeed… There may have been a brilliant scientific mind involved at one time, but much like the quirks of fate that make villains in Batman movies, this Holmes character took a turn to *The Dark Side*…
Just one permit and one determined person could have made a difference in any number of past mass murders. But we’ll never know. . .
BZ
I’m not sure if he is crazy or not… All that planning???
This guy is beyond “crazy” he is way out there all by his lonesome. The sad part, this will be used as the jumping off point for control…it’s done started..
NFO, I’ve seen crazy, every day and you’ll just have to trust me on this one.
RHC, hence, we need to start removing rocks early.
BZ
Many of us would like to think that they would have stayed calm and taken care of business in that theater before the death toll rose so high, but at the very least, I think it was really to bad that one of the cops that first saw him out back didn’t “see” him raise and point his gun so they could shoot him and save a few million taxpayer dollars.
In my early days that would have been accomplished. Today, I counsel my deputies on not only OFFICER survival but CAREER survival as well.
Different times.
BZ
I don’t think that’s crazy, I think that’s just acting.
I don’t think he wore the protective gear for a police engagement.
His goal was to achieve the largest mass shooting without dying in the process.
I believe he is not nor ever will be suicidal.
As a result of his failure, he wanted to kill a bunch of people and live out the rest of his life in an asylum.
I hope he gets consecutive life sentences and is sent to Florence ADX, and put in solitary to rot until death takes mercy on him. Then the devil can have him. The less we hear from or about this person the better for all. As President I would sign an executive order that he is to be kept in solitary and never to be heard from again. I do not believe there is a damned thing that can be learned from this person. He is not worth putting to death.
∞ ≠ ø, oddly enough, Florence just happens to be in — COLORADO!
But I doubt they’ll take him federally.
. . . who knows what rumbles in the wormhole of his brain.
BZ
Wherever black people live, you are going to have lots of people killed with guns.
It is their karma.
Don’t think so? well, Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham, Atlanta ,Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Oakland, LA, et al.
Look for the Free Cheese / Violence equation to be involved.
BZ