Comments on: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Paris premiere canceled after Colorado mass-shooting http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/ Stylish celebrity escapism Thu, 23 May 2013 20:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TheOriginalKitten http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11756531 TheOriginalKitten Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:06:34 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11756531 @ Chris-how much do you know about American history? Watch Deadwood if you want a short and brilliant synopsis. America isn't Australia and it's naive to compare the two. In order to truly understand the relevance of guns in American culture, you have to go WAY back to the birth of this country. I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with the oversimplification of a very complex issue and I very much hate that I feel like I'm defending the right to bare arms (makes my liberal blood boil). Tougher gun laws may/may not minimize # or murders, but it won't prevent people from killing. This particular shooter had NO criminal history, nothing but a speeding ticket, no proven mental health issues. Again, I get that people are trying to find reasons, grasping for ways that this tragedy could have been prevented but it's an exercise in futility. This man WOULD have killed, with or without guns. Why don't people understand this? This tragedy is symptomatic of a very damaged, disenfranchised man who was hell-bent on killing. The gun was the easiest weapon of choice but if guns didn't exist, that would NOT have stopped him from killing.Again, I guess it's easier for people to believe that guns are responsible than to believe that an ugly aspect of human nature is at the root of this tragedy. Guns we can theoretically control, human nature we cannot. @ Chris-how much do you know about American history? Watch Deadwood if you want a short and brilliant synopsis. America isn’t Australia and it’s naive to compare the two. In order to truly understand the relevance of guns in American culture, you have to go WAY back to the birth of this country. I’m starting to get a bit frustrated with the oversimplification of a very complex issue and I very much hate that I feel like I’m defending the right to bare arms (makes my liberal blood boil). Tougher gun laws may/may not minimize # or murders, but it won’t prevent people from killing. This particular shooter had NO criminal history, nothing but a speeding ticket, no proven mental health issues. Again, I get that people are trying to find reasons, grasping for ways that this tragedy could have been prevented but it’s an exercise in futility. This man WOULD have killed, with or without guns. Why don’t people understand this? This tragedy is symptomatic of a very damaged, disenfranchised man who was hell-bent on killing. The gun was the easiest weapon of choice but if guns didn’t exist, that would NOT have stopped him from killing.Again, I guess it’s easier for people to believe that guns are responsible than to believe that an ugly aspect of human nature is at the root of this tragedy. Guns we can theoretically control, human nature we cannot.

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]]> By: TheOriginalKitten http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11756448 TheOriginalKitten Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:41:22 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11756448 @Flan-sweetheart- Are you trying to compare ICeland to the US? How many people live in Iceland? Do you have any idea? 319,000. How many people live in the US? 311,591,917. So yeah, maybe if Iceland was as large and as populated as the US there would be more shootings. In fact, GUARANTEED there would be more, just based on law of averages. Please don't oversimplify things-don't try to compare two vastly different countries, with different ages, different histories, different cultures, different populations. It's just unfair. Making guns less accessible won't prevent these kinds of crimes-do you know why? Because this man would have made pipe bombs, made molitov cocktails, made weapons. People like him are hell-bent on killing, hell-bent on destruction, and hell-bent on achieving infamy. Without access to guns, maybe he would have killed 8 instead of 12. Is that really success to you? People just want to believe that the answer is simple when it's JUST NOT. Human nature is to blame, human darkness is to blame-not guns. Sorry but that's the truth, as ugly as it may seem. It's comforting to think that this could have been preventable, that there's an easy solution. Nope. @Flan-sweetheart- Are you trying to compare ICeland to the US? How many people live in Iceland? Do you have any idea? 319,000. How many people live in the US? 311,591,917. So yeah, maybe if Iceland was as large and as populated as the US there would be more shootings. In fact, GUARANTEED there would be more, just based on law of averages. Please don’t oversimplify things-don’t try to compare two vastly different countries, with different ages, different histories, different cultures, different populations. It’s just unfair. Making guns less accessible won’t prevent these kinds of crimes-do you know why? Because this man would have made pipe bombs, made molitov cocktails, made weapons. People like him are hell-bent on killing, hell-bent on destruction, and hell-bent on achieving infamy. Without access to guns, maybe he would have killed 8 instead of 12. Is that really success to you? People just want to believe that the answer is simple when it’s JUST NOT. Human nature is to blame, human darkness is to blame-not guns. Sorry but that’s the truth, as ugly as it may seem. It’s comforting to think that this could have been preventable, that there’s an easy solution. Nope.

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]]> By: Gigohead http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11756390 Gigohead Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:14:52 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11756390 Many thanks for Hollywood for doing these cancelations. If people want to see it than that's fine but to bring in the press glorifying actors at a time like this would have people so disrespectful. Many thanks for Hollywood for doing these cancelations. If people want to see it than that’s fine but to bring in the press glorifying actors at a time like this would have people so disrespectful.

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]]> By: Mia 4S http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11754705 Mia 4S Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:54:05 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11754705 Where exactly do I say I'm just angry at him? I'm angry at the whole world right now. Do you need a list? I don't have space. The NRA, the gun lobby, the gun sellers, politicians, the media who make these killers famous, those who cut funding to mental health services...that's a start. And yes angry at him. Lots of people suffer from mental illness, but are not insane. Premeditated for months, hiding, complicated explosive hookups. He knew what he was doing, and I don't buy for a second he is legally insane. Why hide if you don't know what you are doing is wrong? Lock him up and throw away the key. Where exactly do I say I’m just angry at him? I’m angry at the whole world right now. Do you need a list? I don’t have space. The NRA, the gun lobby, the gun sellers, politicians, the media who make these killers famous, those who cut funding to mental health services…that’s a start. And yes angry at him. Lots of people suffer from mental illness, but are not insane. Premeditated for months, hiding, complicated explosive hookups. He knew what he was doing, and I don’t buy for a second he is legally insane. Why hide if you don’t know what you are doing is wrong? Lock him up and throw away the key.

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]]> By: Janet http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753517 Janet Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:48:10 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753517 The guy who did this is a psychopathic ghoul. He deserves the harshest punishment the law can give him. That said, there is no excuse for irresponsible parenting. It's two completely different issues. The guy who did this is a psychopathic ghoul. He deserves the harshest punishment the law can give him. That said, there is no excuse for irresponsible parenting. It’s two completely different issues.

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]]> By: Janet http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753510 Janet Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:43:27 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753510 @ nordicgoddess: You can't tell jack, honey. Believe me, I've been there. As a grandma already, I still remember very well how you can go stir-crazy being stuck in the house with a baby. However, there are plenty of places you can take a baby outdoors to, that both you and the baby will enjoy. A movie theater is not one of them. I was never as selfish and inconsiderate as you seem to be about disregarding the rights of people who pay to enjoy a movie without the event being disrupted by a crying, squalling baby. My husband and I went out to the movies many times while our son was a baby and later when he was a toddler, but we always took the time to find a reliable baby sitter. As I said before, parenting can involve sacrifices. If you're not prepared to make them, don't become a parent. Just because you have a baby doesn't absolve you from being considerate of other people's rights. People who pay to watch a movie have a right to enjoy it without being subjected to the "odd sound" from your baby. Your baby is no more special than anyone else's. If you think you and the baby have a right to disrupt the event, they have a right to demand that you reimburse them for the price of their tickets. Get a sitter or wait for the DVD. And in the meantime, take your own advice and grow up. @ nordicgoddess: You can’t tell jack, honey. Believe me, I’ve been there. As a grandma already, I still remember very well how you can go stir-crazy being stuck in the house with a baby. However, there are plenty of places you can take a baby outdoors to, that both you and the baby will enjoy. A movie theater is not one of them.

I was never as selfish and inconsiderate as you seem to be about disregarding the rights of people who pay to enjoy a movie without the event being disrupted by a crying, squalling baby. My husband and I went out to the movies many times while our son was a baby and later when he was a toddler, but we always took the time to find a reliable baby sitter.

As I said before, parenting can involve sacrifices. If you’re not prepared to make them, don’t become a parent. Just because you have a baby doesn’t absolve you from being considerate of other people’s rights. People who pay to watch a movie have a right to enjoy it without being subjected to the “odd sound” from your baby. Your baby is no more special than anyone else’s. If you think you and the baby have a right to disrupt the event, they have a right to demand that you reimburse them for the price of their tickets. Get a sitter or wait for the DVD. And in the meantime, take your own advice and grow up.

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]]> By: renee http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753314 renee Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:43:59 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753314 I like this, ban bullets. You get my vote. I like this, ban bullets. You get my vote.

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]]> By: flan http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753176 flan Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:21:09 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753176 Good to hear! Hope your friends are fine too. Good to hear! Hope your friends are fine too.

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]]> By: cr http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753095 cr Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:37:23 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753095 If your worried about mass shootings, or even random gun violence, don't be. Really. Unless you're heading to a 'bad' neighborhood in the city where you'll be, you'll probably be in more danger from distracted drivers or something. If your worried about mass shootings, or even random gun violence, don’t be. Really. Unless you’re heading to a ‘bad’ neighborhood in the city where you’ll be, you’ll probably be in more danger from distracted drivers or something.

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]]> By: cr http://www.celebitchy.com/241121/the_dark_knight_rises_paris_premiere_canceled_after_colorado_mass-shooting/#comment-11753089 cr Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:34:28 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=241121#comment-11753089 Oh, does he fit the profile, and throw in the trouble in grad school as well. It's sad that it's so clichéd with the 'lone gunman' profile but he does fit. Oh, does he fit the profile, and throw in the trouble in grad school as well.
It’s sad that it’s so clichéd with the ‘lone gunman’ profile but he does fit.

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