Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver

[Peter Lemkin]

It is now about 12 hours they have been at this apartment, and the bomb squad and demolition experts from the military have not yet figured out how to disarm whatever this non-military, no past history of crime, PhD student in neuosciences built.

Holmes' apartment, about four miles from the cinema, contains incendiary and chemical devices and apparent trip wires, Mr Oates said, adding the operation could take hours or days. Police said pictures from inside the third-floor flat were fairly disturbing and the devices seemed 'sophisticated'. FBI agents and police used a fire truck ladder and put a camera at the end of 12ft pole in the flat. Authorities have evacuated five buildings as they worked out how to disarm flammable and explosive materials connected by trip-wires.

He also had two pistols and lots of ammo, along with his assault rifle, shot gun, full body armor, gas mask and some type of gas canisters. He apparently was firing IN the theater and fired one shot at the ceiling, fired off some gas cannisters and then started the slaughter, shooting people in their seats or as they fled. I lived a long time in Boulder, Colorado [where I went to University of Colorado and studied, among other things, neurosciences]; then worked for the Governor in Denver, so I know the area fairly well, and the school he was in too. I also lived a long time in San Diego. This one has my attention more than many......there are some huge pieces missing here and somehow I wonder if they'll ever be given out truthfully.....suspicious me. As he apparently fired nearly 100+ shots the death toll could have been much higher [72 persons shot; 12 dead; 9 critical]...and the booby-trap in his flat indicates to me he wasn't planning on coming home. Hard to explain his going back to his car and surrendering without any trouble.

One witness said the gunman appeared lackadaisical, "as calm as can be," and didn't say a word.
"He was sitting there like target practice," he said of the shooter. "He was trying to shoot as many people as he could."

.....guess he was just having a bad day with his neurotransmitters - and doesn't like people who like Batman.:mexican: