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Originally posted by Miraj
reply to post by Wewillallbefree
1. Credit cards? It's clear he had no worry about how he was going to pay his debt.
2. 2 Witnesses is all? Witness testimony is always going to be shoddy. Note that it was a dark theater, bright screen and lots of noise. Simple mistakes about how things happened are not suspect, they are expected.
3. All suspect points. But the gas masks could have been purchase as a pack. They often are, and how do we know things werent moved around?
4.*First report of suspects was two men fleeing the theatres both wearing back packs, what happened to these two suspects?? - Mistaken identity? There could have been more shooters but if I heard heavy gun fire then I would run away from the theater too.
*Reports of three people dragging an unknown individual into a non descript vehicle and speeding off
So you'd drive at a slow pace if you thought someone was going to chase you with a gun?
*the majority of injured and witnesses were not given access to ambulances, they were to be transported by other vehicles to the high school. WHY?
This is just trauma protocol. I doubt they had the ambulance capacity to handle 80 people at once. I'm an EMT and I'm familiar with how this works. They shipped off the most critically injured people first, and then located the less severe injuries (which was the majority of patients) to a location where EMS could set up and handle who gets to the hospital first, who actually neeeds to go, ect.
You can see this happen with just about any major incident involving trauma. Car crashes, environmental hazards (and note, they probably didn't assume what the gas was, or could be so called it safe and moved everyone.)
* Police radio that one of the shooters may be wearing blue and plaid shirt
Poor witness testimony?
*Magazine and AR-15 dropped in theatre
Well he wasn't shooting anymore. Do you think he was going to take the time to make sure he dropped his magazine in the right spot?
5. The police probably asked them not to.
6. Yes. He was a Neuroscience major, which means he had very extensive chemistry experience, along with physics. Combine that with a high intellect, and information easily gotten on the internet, and you can see how this does become plausible.
7. Just speculation. Incoherent speculation.
8. This again? Lobbyists are opportunists. I would call an emotional and very tragic shooting an opportunity to push anti guns.
9. lol. Hardly. People make much bigger purchases than this. The government isn't going to flag him for an AR-15 a handgun, and a shotgun. And again, he was clearly plan to commit suicide, or get caught. If the police took note of him before he did it, he could easilly say his rights were being violated.
10. This could be explained by facts we do not know yet. They could have moved out before the shooting. Are they obligated to draw attention to themselves because their former room mate shot some people?
Originally posted by iseetoo
the evidence is sealed. we may never know. But, sealed? something to hide?
Originally posted by Scope and a Beam
I also think that if there was an accomplice, the police are keeping quiet about it because they know he's still on the run and are worried people will freak out, bear arms and race around shooting suspects.
Originally posted by TKDRL
Or the police could be covering up their mistakes. It wasn't until a long time after they got there, that they even thought of setting up a perimeter. A lot went wrong that night for sure. The ambulance response was #ty, police didn't handle it that great, other than after a long ass time deciding to load up the victims in cruisers and stop waiting for the ambulances to show. That much I salute them for, shoulda been done sooner.edit on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:34:22 -0500 by TKDRL because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Mully
The kid definitely had some issues leading up to the shooting spree.
Originally posted by Wewillallbefree
...was earning unemployment...
Originally posted by Daughter2
Originally posted by Mully
The kid definitely had some issues leading up to the shooting spree.
Really, what issues? The only thing I read was he struggled with his exams?