Batman doesn't use Guns

Today was a sad day.  For whatever reason, a man took up arms against a packed theatre of helpless individuals, killing some, wounding more.   It was some sort of sick joke, during the latest Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" and the shooter claimed he was the Joker.  Very quickly the news and comments around the web devoted to two fields, demands for more gun control and claims that if there was less gun control it would have never happened.  More gun control wouldn't have stopped this.  The man had no criminal record, no recorded mental health problems. The best that could have been done was keeping the assault rifle out of his hands.  It would have made it much more difficult for him to fire so many rounds and injure as many.  Similarly, if conceiled carry permitted people to carry in the theatre, it wouldn't have stopped him either.  At best he would have fired less shots as someone pegged him.  At worst the people trying to stop him would have missed and harmed others, or have been mistaken for being a second shooter.  The theatre was packed full.  Guns don't like crowded rooms.

I also ran up against someone claiming that if an audience member had an assault rifle themselves, it would have been stopped much earlier.  Frankly, that would be much more likely to hit innocent bystanders, not to mention the inability to hide such a weapon would have made him the first target for the gunman.

Finally, good old Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) pulled another one from his book of classics and used it as an opportunity to promote the death penalty.  Here is the tweet in question:

"Aurora, CO mass murder is a terrible event near Littleton. Another very evil individual whose heinous crime calls out for the death penalty."

I'm sure all the victims and their families loved it being turned into a gun control/freedom debate so it must have been all the better that a congressman wants to add another body to the count.


Edit:  A good friend of mine from Chicago told me about a family that lives down the road from her and her husband.  Their son was in the theatre and they had not yet heard anything as to his condition.   All the area television networks were camped out on their street trying to get an interview or waiting for news.  Despicable.