Good job ignoring the first story where 7 people were killed in another incident before this one.
You proved my point that people like you pick and choose those incidents that best suits their agenda.
Also, pretty sure sarin gas is illegal everywhere on earth, but somehow, someway these guys obtained it to kill people. Point being that making something illegal is not the same as making it unavailable. By your reasoning even everything that could be used to harm people should be removed from society.
Personally I look forward to our new, Nerf swaddled future! At least until someone starts picking pieces of Nerf away from places where they want to see people injured or killed, and then what?
Sorry, not buying it. He knows EXACTLY what he's done. The problem is, he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.
If you think about the statements from the jailers, his whole act mirrors various scenes in the Dark Knight movie. Remember the prisoner that the Joker planted in the jail with a bomb sewn into his stomach that kept complaining his stomach hurts? Eerily similar to what we are hearing about him complaining his stomach hurts, won't eat, etc. Similarly, his whole act in court the other day just wreaks of how the Joker acted in the jail in that movie where he basically played the victim while he held two people hostage.
So, either he's extrememly delusional and has really, REALLY gone off the deep end and immersed himself into this whole Batman world, or he is calculated and highly intelligent and believes he's gonna beat the system using the same tactics he's observed in Heath Ledger's Joker character.
I say he's a calculated, measured, reasoning mind who has convinced himself that he's going to beat the system here and he's still just having fun. That fun will end once he get's in gen pop in the correctional system.
The Coué method
The Coué method centers on a routine repetition of this particular expression according to a specified ritual, in a given physical state, and in the absence of any sort of allied mental imagery, at the beginning and at the end of each day. Unlike a commonly held belief that a strong conscious constitutes the best path to success, Coué maintained that curing some of our troubles requires a change in our subconscious/unconscious thought, which can only be achieved by using our imagination. Although stressing that he was not primarily a healer but one who taught others to heal themselves, Coué claimed to have effected organic changes through autosuggestion.[2]
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Underlying principles
Coué thus developed a method which relied on the belief that any idea exclusively occupying the mind turns into reality, although only to the extent that the idea is within the realm of possibility. For instance, a person without hands will not be able to make them grow back. However, if a person firmly believes that his or her asthma is disappearing, then this may actually happen, as far as the body is actually able to physically overcome or control the illness. On the other hand, thinking negatively about the illness (ex. "I am not feeling well") will encourage both mind and body to accept this thought.
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Willpower
Coué observed that the main obstacle to autosuggestion was willpower. For the method to work, the patient must refrain from making any independent judgement, meaning that he must not let his will impose its own views on positive ideas. Everything must thus be done to ensure that the positive "autosuggestive" idea is consciously accepted by the patient, otherwise one may end up getting the opposite effect of what is desired.[3]
Coué noted that young children always applied his method perfectly, as they lacked the willpower that remained present among adults. When he instructed a child by saying "clasp your hands" and you can't the child would thus immediately follow.[clarification needed]
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Self-conflict
Coué believed a patient's problems were likely to increase if his willpower and imagination (or mental ideas) opposed each other, something Coué would refer to as "self-conflict".[citation needed] As the conflict intensifies, so does the problem i.e., the more the patient tries to sleep, the more he becomes awake. The patient must thus abandon his willpower and instead put more focus on his imaginative power in order to fully succeed with his cure.
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Effectiveness
With his method, which Coué once called his "trick",[4] patients of all sorts would come to visit him. The list of ailments included kidney problems, diabetes, memory loss, stammering, weakness, atrophy and all sorts of physical and mental illnesses.[citation needed] According to one of his journal entries (1916), he apparently cured a patient of a uterus prolapse as well as "violent pains in the head" (migraine).[5]
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Evidence
In the early 20th century, Emile Coue used autosuggestion to cure patients; his work is evidence to support the existence of autosuggestion and the power of the human mind
The means matter but are vastly less interesting than the reasons. You can control the reasons better, in this case it sounds like the mother knew something was wrong before it happened. That opens the door to actually preventing the tragedy.Uhm, i think the means of attack are pretty damn important. If he had a gun, or a dirty nuke, there'd be lots of dead people, rather than just 14 injuries.
September 11, 2001 terrorists with box cutters kill 2,996 people and injure 6,000+ more.
Colorado shooting victim suffers miscarriage during recovery.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/us/colorado-shooting-victim-miscarriage/index.html?hpt=us_c1
Her 6 year old daughter was killed and now this..
Colorado shooting victim suffers miscarriage during recovery.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/us/colorado-shooting-victim-miscarriage/index.html?hpt=us_c1
Her 6 year old daughter was killed and now this..
Colorado shooting victim suffers miscarriage during recovery.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/us/colorado-shooting-victim-miscarriage/index.html?hpt=us_c1
Her 6 year old daughter was killed and now this..
Let the flood of lawsuits begin!
http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/30/colorado-shooting-lawsuit-james-holmes-movie-theater-rebecca-wingo/
I did see this before and laughed at the idiots lawsuit and wish he would get stringed up for even trying most of what he is trying to sue over but sadly he will probably get money no matter what.
He wants to sue the theater for not having security guards and warner bros because of the violence in the movie.
cruel. You suck.
How would you feel if the gun victims sued the shops that sold the guns? And the ammo retailers? Would you get behind that? I would.
cruel. You suck.
How would you feel if the gun victims sued the shops that sold the guns? And the ammo retailers? Would you get behind that? I would.
How about his psychiatrist who didn't report how dangerous he was? How about his university or the NIH who gave him the money to buy guns?
What about the manufacturer of the car he used to get to the movie theater?
What about the manufacturer of the car he used to get to the movie theater?
cruel. You suck.
How would you feel if the gun victims sued the shops that sold the guns? And the ammo retailers? Would you get behind that? I would.
Let the flood of lawsuits begin!
http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/30/colorado-shooting-lawsuit-james-holmes-movie-theater-rebecca-wingo/
I blame the alarm clock company that woke him up in time to get ready.
cruel. You suck.
How would you feel if the gun victims sued the shops that sold the guns? And the ammo retailers? Would you get behind that? I would.