The tragic incident that occurred at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo., has hit all of our hearts, especially the actors from the flick.
“The Dark Knight Rises,” is the third and final installment in director Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy. The film was set to debut at 4,404 locations, the second-widest release in Hollywood history behind “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.” It had also pre-sold 2,000 screenings. “The Dark Knight,” the second film in the trilogy, grossed more than $1 billion world-wide following an incident in which the film’s co-star Heath Ledger died unexpectedly from an accidental drug overdose.
At 12:30 a.m. Friday, 24-year-old James Holmes allegedly walked into the midnight showing of Dark Knight Risesin Theater 9 at the Century 16 movie complex in Aurora, carrying gas canisters, an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and at least one .40-caliber Glock handgun. Holmes surrendered himself to police after the shooting and was booked on Friday afternoon.
Authorities say he wore protective body armor and a gas mask. Holmes triggered two canisters and opened fire with the rifle, killing 12 and injuring 58 people, making this the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history, according to available data.
"My heart aches and breaks for the lives taken and altered by this unfathomably senseless act," Hathaway, who plays Catwoman/Selina Kyle in Dark Knight Rises, said in a statement Saturday to E! News. "I am at a loss for words how to express my sorrow. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families."
in my opinion:
no matter what people do there will be naysayers.We cannot give in to bitterness and attack those who wish to only give their respect, and want to acknowledge the pain others are in.No mention or glorification of the killer was made. Yes, the media will continue to harp on it, but the nation is stunned awaiting facts to make sense of the senseless. The killer is locked up away from TV or newspaper. As far as I am concerned he stopped being apart of the living 4 months ago when he started to make this plan.There is time enough to deal with the killer...court, sentencing, punishment can wait.For Now we honor our dead-the victims, their families, and their friends. Let us give comfort without fear of judgement.
guns don't kill people, people do. Blaming guns for the despicable actions of an evil person is like blaming a pencil for spelling a word wrong.
With this logic..since he was emulating the violence from the movie Batman, let's ban violent movies. There's no NEED for violent movies, right? A lot of people are dead because someone sold a movie ticket to a violent movie to a nutjob who had no need to watch/influence him. Or maybe, because he played video games..let's ban video games for being too violent..maybe they're responsible. They serve no practical purposes, right? Since he had tanks of gasoline set to booby trap his house, guess we gotta get rid of the sale of that too, right? I mean without the guns, he still would have blown up his building the next time someone walked in there. How about we concentrate on the nutjob who did it and stop looking to take away civil liberties as knee jerk reactions to tragic events that will happen regardless if there were no violent movies, games, NRA, etc.
