aurora shooting – Non Omnis Moriar https://www.nonomnismoriar.org Mon, 13 Jun 2016 05:59:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 AND ANOTHER THING https://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4184 https://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4184#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:29:55 +0000 http://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4184 As I told my friend Meghan, it would do my heart some good if all the cowboys out there would shut the fuck up. The self-congratulatory, faux-messiah, would-be hero bullshit is truly insulting to real human beings who were really there and who are really fucking suffering. Your Wyatt Earp nonsense diminishes legitimate grief and pain.

AND ONE MORE FUCKING THING, and I promise I’ll shut the hell up.

As Kate put it: ‘It doesn’t matter why the kids were at the movies in CO. Stop. Blaming. Victims.’

So fucking what if some parents took their kids to a midnight movie? Somehow it makes it /their/ fault that a lunatic gunman went berserk and shot at them? I reckon a movie theatre ranks pretty high up there in the list of Reasonably Safe Places to Take Your Children No Matter What Time It Is. Stop blaming victims.

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]]> https://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?feed=rss2&p=4184 0 https://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4189 https://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4189#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:58:31 +0000 http://www.nonomnismoriar.org/?p=4189 So, I keep seeing people go on and on about how if other people in the theatre had been packing, the tragedy in Colorado could be averted.

People of the Someone Should Have Shot Back mindset, are you saying that in a darkened theatre filled with smoke and an unidentifiable gas, hundreds of screaming, scrambling, panicking people, and gunfire, under the duress of unimaginable terror, adrenaline, and fight or flight, you would have had the presence of mind to pull out a gun, release the safety, take aim, and headshot a kevlar-armored moving target without injuring or (heaven forbid) killing a fair number of bystanders in the process? Are you confident that other law-abiding gun-toters in the theatre would be possessed of this same mystical composure?

It’s good to know that there are so many SWAT and Navy Seal-trained laymen out there ready to protect us at the drop of a hat.

What happened at the Batman premiere is horrible beyond comprehension. My heart goes out to everyone that is suffering because of that madman.

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