First off, my heart goes out to all the victims.
Second, my immediate reactions were as follows (and apparently I feel pretty much the same as Cerv):
- Parents that took a 3-month old baby to a midnight premiere should also be in custody!
- Who lets a 6-yr old kid watch ANY of the new Batman movies?
- I am thoroughly disgusted with the way news media handles tragedies such as this. I think it should be policy to NEVER name a mass murderer. Let them rot in prison where no one will know their name and no one should see their face. Also, stop trying to blame tragedies on violent movies, video games, gun control, aliens, or any of the traditional scapegoats! Keep the politics out of it! Also, instead of interviewing "experts" on everything from movie theater security to homegrown terrorists to cooking (yes I'm being facetious just to make my point), how about we find out more details about the VICTIMS and try to celebrate THEIR lives instead of digging into the nitty gritty history of the killer and his family. I $hit you not, I read an article where they talked about how the killer's parents live in a 3-bedroom home that cost $398,000 according to a 2010 tax assessment. WHO THE HELL CARES?!?! It's a NEWS story, not a web crawl of Facebook, Trulia, and Foursquare!
- Apparently the police HQ is like 2 blocks away and they were able to arrive in 100 seconds (which is incredible!) and yet so much carnage had already been done
- These are the stories that make me wish I didn't live in a state (Maryland) with ridiculously tight gun-control laws!