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Horror: This Terrifying Infographic Lays Out Every Piece of Equipment in Suspected Gunman James Holmes’ Arsenal

When alleged gunman James Holmes stormed a theater in Aurora, Colo. during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” police reports and eyewitness accounts claim he was armed with multiple firearms, a ballistic helmet, a gas mask, a bulletproof vest, and more than 100 rounds of ammunition.

Victims of the attack recall that about 30 minutes into the film, teargas began to fill the theater and then, from out of the smoke, a black-clad, heavily armored silhouette emerged and opened fire.

The following infographic from Allison Cross, Jonathan Rivait, and Richard Johnson of The National Post gives us a small glimpse into the horror of the “Batman” massacre [although we cannot even begin to imagine the terror the victims must have felt]:

Horror: This Terrifying Infographic Lays Out Every Piece of Equipment & Bullet in James Holmes ArsenalClick to enlarge

A silver lining takeaway: “Looking closely at the ammunition and equipment involved, it becomes clear that last Friday’s attack could have been much worse.”

(h/t Business Insider)

Comments (219)

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  • jimmc
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:39pm

    Good graphic. How many mags did he have for each gun? Two come with the Glocks if I remember right. A hundred round mag. for the AR-15. Two round extender on shot gun. That is a lot of ammo I agree. He could not have carried all the ammo in the graphic 260lbs-ish. Now the gun control nuts are going to come out. Remember he set bombs with trip wires at his apartment. How many pipe bombs could he have placed in the theater before people started to take their seats. A gun will not discharge till some one pulls the triger. A sharpened wood #2 pencil, ball point pen, book bag with couple text books in it, make great weapons, where is the call to ban them? I don’t think he is crazy, he planned for a while to get every thing he thought he needed. He got his 15 min of fame at a high price and it has cost some all.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:09pm

      JIMMC
      If guns were banned, how many bombs/IEDS could he have set around the city? I bet if he had he would have killed more than 12 people.

      If he had put the 1st one by a bus stop, he could have got a dozen people. The FBI would show up but they would not have much to go on. If nothing happens for a month, the politicians & public might think it was a one off & forget about it. By that time he is on his second bomb. Maybe this one could have been planted in Denver. The terror created at that point would be like Beltway sniper attacks.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

      “The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured.”

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

      Liberals have no clue. If James Holmes was prevented from buying guns because no one could buy guns legally would he have suddenly become less evil or sick? He would have still built his bombs & bobby traps. Only he might have then then placed them around a city like IEDs. Can a liberal argue with that?

      I thinks not. The trolls & (especially paid trolls) only post on certain stories now unlike last year where they think that conservatives look bad.

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    • rabblechat
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:34pm

      Ok whats so terrifying about this picture? It was his actions, not the tools he used that were horrific.

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    • Texanbyluck
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:36pm

      @Walkabout… If I understand you correctly, your logic seems to be that if this level of assault capability was not available to him, he would have killed more people by using different destruction devices.

      I find that logic perverse and offensive. It is twisted logic supporting to gun rights to imply that guns can only kill a limited number of people.

      Clearly, anyone, anywhere, regardless of any law can kill massive numbers of people. This guy perhaps could have killed or injured more people by driving his car at high speed into the people lined up before the movie started.

      While I fully support the 2nd Amendment, selling 100 round mags is dangerous, and wrong. The car that he could have used to hurt people has many, many valid and productive uses. A 100 round mag has only one use.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:03pm

      Texanbyluck

      I find your argument offensive & twisted. Britain has stricter guns laws than than America. Yet the the 7/7 bomber managed to build bombs & kill numerous people. They got 13 fatalities & almost 200 wounded per bomber.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

      The worst mass killing by a person in the U.S. was done using bombs by a single disgruntled, upset person. the Bath school bombing.

      This what I expect. You pass a law banning these magazines & you might have a decrease in fatalities year to year. If you ban guns there will be fewer fatalities. But after a dip someone will start using Improvised explosive device & gain noteriety. Then other disgruntled people will copy cat that person & crime will go right back up.

      I have looked a the stats comparing homicides in Britain to the U.S. The availability of guns is one variable. Other variables are the homogeneity of the population. One thing I see is that as the homogeneity of the population goes down, crime goes up. The Nordic countries for example are becoming heterogeneous. Crime is going up such as rapes and other violence.

      Maybe you & Senator Di Fi (Feinstein) can peruse the latest copy of Shotgun news & ban guns by color again as well as by magazine size also.

      You do reaIize magazine is simply a stamping , a spring & a molding. If you deny them to law abiding citizens, criminals will import them or make them in machine shops the size of a garage if they wan

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:06pm

      Texanbyluck

      The AR 15 Jammed. The perp switched to a shotgun. Howe many people died due to the high capacity magazine & how many due to the shotgun?

      How many people died due to no one having a CCW? The perp had body armor. That doesn;t mean he was immune to bullets.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:57pm

      @ texan:

      “I find that logic perverse and offensive. It is twisted logic supporting to gun rights to imply that guns can only kill a limited number of people.”

      Maybe you are not old enough to remember, or you want to forget. The Happy Land fire killed 60 (not by gunshot, but burned to death) and severely injured over 100 more. It was done by a deranged immigrant with a CAN OF GAS AND A PAPER MATCH.

      And yes, firearms can only kill a limited number of people, at some point the weapon jams or the bullets are exhausted or the perp gets whacked.

      Infernos, chlorine gas, mustard gas, ricine, cow manure, dirty bombs.. .these are all indiscriminate and only stop killing when God so decides.

      McVeigh used no firearms.

      From what I understand, his AR did jam, and he reverted to the oldest, deadliest weapon in the list, that was his shotgun.

      It wasn’t his tools, it was his deranged mind. Weapons can’t be deadly on their own. They are only things. The human mind is the weapon that kills, and it can use any tool in the shed or even invent one on the fly.

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    • NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:30pm

      The real nut jobs are the one’s who believe this exaggerated BS. All of this equipment was laying around the parking lot i.e. HE WAS NOT WEARING IT UPON DETENTION. Which leads to, who IDed him as the shooter? Evidently the MSM. The heavy padding indicates RIOT GEAR, not body armor. If you view the court hearing, HE WAS DRUGGED OUT OF HIS MIND. In the still photos, his irises could hardly be seen, the pupils were so large. Mind control is a real thing, this is why scopolamine is called “devil’s breath”, look it up. He exhibits the signs of being drugged: nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-james-holmes-claims-amnesia-article-1.1122289
      Yet, I doubt they will test for anything, as this accommodates the UN small arms treaty to be signed on the 27th.
      But the brainwashed morons will go along w/ what the media tells them.

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    • IsThereADifference
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:32pm

      Yea it could have been alot worse if he had really geared up. I think before he did the deed he decided he wanted to make it out of the whole ordeal alive. If he would have put all that on and decided to go all out. He more than likely would have ended up dead.

      A definite psycopath who wanted to be the center of attention. Boy the media sure did him favor in that respect. The media, and their pals the progressive politicians will use this psycodic as amunition to further hamper our 2nd amendment rights. Not to mention what will happen when Hillary and Obama finish up their trip to the U.N. today.

      Ron Paul was the last best hope I had for this country….

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    • IsThereADifference
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:48pm

      TEXANBYLUCK, “Clearly, anyone, anywhere, regardless of any law can kill massive numbers of people. This guy perhaps could have killed or injured more people by driving his car at high speed into the people lined up before the movie started.”

      Exactly; you said it yourself there are a million ways to kill large amounts of people if that is their plan. Outlawing 100 round mags will only keep them out of the hands people who fully support the 2nd Amendment. The bad guys will get their high cap. clips if they really want them.

      “While I fully support the 2nd Amendment, selling 100 round mags is dangerous, and wrong.”

      No sir. You do not fully support the 2nd Amendment. If you did you would not be in favor of the government hampering them in every way possible.

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    • garylee123
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:15pm

      Let’s face it, a person with that armor and 2 machetes could have killed just as many.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:21pm

      @YittaYadda,

      Like your post. There is more to this than meets the eye. If there is a “free press” we will find out this boy was on meds of the strongest sort. But I fear that the “machine” has already covered their bases.

      Lee Harvey wasn’t the shooter. His story was closed out by Jack Ruby. Just saying.

      This is deep. And I’m sure we will never know.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:29pm

      @Garylee

      LOL, I’m rolling on the floor! Let me see, as a historian, I remember such a scenario. It was in the Philippines. Mudslime Moros were hacking our officers to death, AFTER they had been shot six or more times by the “venerable” .38

      MacArthur and Pershing thought that the .45 Colt 1911 would be a real fixer.

      And they NEVER looked back.

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    • SoonerBorn68
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Just be thankful he didn’t have an AK-47. It wouldn’t have jammed and would have had more punch in that closed environment.

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    • Dennis McMurtrey
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Guess preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse is NOW considered taboo….
      Rather meager gun collection and ammo supply. Only people horrified are
      those who don’t own any real firearms or go shooting at a range quite often.

      TheBlaze really NEEDS to get a clue a just focus on the psycho not what he drives, wears are uses as a weapon, besides where are all the 30 illegally homemade bombs that ARE banned from ownership in this graphic? There aren‘t any because it doesn’t suit the agenda of anti-gun ownership Nazis, that is why. The mere presents of ANY of those bombs on this infographic would undermine their illogical reasons period.

      Quite throwing gas on the libofacist arguments aiding them.as if their arguments are valid.
      EVERY household in Switzerland is ORDERED by law to own an be training in (OMG!) full auto military weapons and have more ammo per household than this nutjob had. And Switzerland crime is almost non- existent. Nor have they ever been invaded in any world war.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:34pm

      Funny, I don’t see a single AK-47. Liberal press and O’reilly, don’t spout off unless you KNOW what you are talking about. Bill, love you man, but a “heavy weapon” is crew served, like a .50 cal machine gun, aka Ma Deuce, or a vehicle mounted grenade launcher aka M19, or a recoilless rifle like an M2 or M3 Carl Gustav, or a Javelin AT weapon, or a TOW-2, or a Mortar, or a Artillery piece. I am sick to death of hearing uninformed ignoramuses spout off about ANYTHING of which they have not a clue.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:35pm

      Walkabout
      What about just driving a car into the crowd???

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:38pm

      Walkabout
      Quoting Ron White in “Behavioral Problems” “Pooter got him, he shot him in the head” , or foot or side or axilla… Idiots, we are surrounded by Idiots.

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    • Flyingfish
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:06am

      The only thing that kept this from being worse than it turned out,was the obvious fact this guy did not know what he was doing.

      He had a movie audience of 250 in a small kill box and only managed to wound 50 and kill 12? He must have been blindly firing into the crowd. A nominal amount of training, a little practice, and decent magazines (not those garbage 100rd types) and it would have easily been in the tripple digits.

      Stupid/crazy people will always do stupid/crazy things. Let’s start talking about dealing with them (the real problem) before we blame inanimate objects using 5 year old logic.

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    • NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:08am

      Does anyone else think it odd the shooter removed his gas mask last?
      wordpress.com/2012/07/22/aurora-massacre-what-does-the-location-of-the-gas-mask-tell-us-what-about-security-cameras-are-they-related/

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    • Pouncing Porcupine
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:14am

      If this guy didn’t have accomplices in high places, I’ll eat my hat.

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:39pm

      What in the Sam Hill are you people talking about? Gun laws will never and do not have any effect on BOMBS. Nor do they really have an effect on a madman other than he can access the weapons faster.

      This is one of those situations where everyone is stupid.

      Conservative POV: “Well guns are just guns and that’s all, they don’t kill anyone. People kill people, that’s all, I should be able to own whatever gun I want.”

      Liberal POV: “Guns are evil and bad and they kill people, all there is to it, we should get rid of them.”

      Real life: Crazy man bought guns, shot people. Gun laws could have had an effect on this, though I imagine only one involving time and not so much equipment, he would have eventually gotten whatever he wanted by other means. But a more in depth gun law would have stopped him or at least have had someone ask him some questions.

      Sorry folks, I’m all up for being a little inconvenienced when I buy my next hand gun if it saves someone from shooting random people, even if there’s a chance it does. Buying a gun is quite simple in the state I’m in and while I like it that way (I own a couple of guns) a little more paperwork wouldn’t kill you.

      (Here come the slipper slopes.)

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:09pm

      .
      Something is wrong with this information.
      I’ve never seen a gun store that sold ballistic vests.
      The author claims that he bought 3,000 rounds of .223
      for $680. That’s about $227 per/ 1000, way too cheap.
      How much was made up?
      And what difference does it make if he bought 3,000 rounds?
      His crappy drum jammed and he only shot a few rounds out of the AR.
      Would you feel better if he only bought a 100 round box at Wal*Mart?
      Most of the shooting was done from a Remington 870, the most popular
      shotgun in the country.
      Are you going to ban them?

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:10pm

      .
      Now, look at all this crap he was wearing and carrying, and tell me some guy couldn’t have knocked him down.
      Think. Don’t be a victim.

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    • Maji
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:12pm

      So..if anyone has noticed or not?
      Isn’t that the same get up “COPS” wear??

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:38pm

    Beware of who you vote for. The lesser of two evils keeps screwing us.

    Romney on gun control. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzYTdM9b5F4

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:43pm

      I did not know Wall Mart sold those Tear Gas grenades. Are they in stock or do they ship them?

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    • bannie
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:52pm

      If you’re drowning, and a half-inflated raft floats by…you grab the half-inflated raft! Obama is drowning us.

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    • bannie
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:54pm

      To COMCAST3; It’s funny how the absolute liberals point out the more liberal aspects of the more conservative candidate is–in an attempt to dissuade us. Go fig’er!

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    • Comcast3
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:55pm

      @Mutiny, you sound like a Liberal or devout, Ron Paul, supporter.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Ron Paul is very connected to the far left.

      http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/ron-pauls-soros-defense-plan/

      http://www.aim.org/aim-column/ron-paul-campaign-uses-soros-funded-research/

      The only reason Ron Paul is even still in this election,is to help his old Buddy’s George Soros and the National Socialist…

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    • Comcast3
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:05pm

      @Bannie, I couldn’t agree more. Mutiny is mostly likely a Liberal who failed to mention, Obama, on our economy, national debt, the southern border, national security, once-foreign allies, honesty and common sense…etc, etc…

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    • Comcast3
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:09pm

      @The-Monk, wish Rand Paul was in the race…

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    • Comcast3
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:11pm

      @TheBlazze, you removed my first comment! Shame on you…I edited the f-bomb! and shame on me:))

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    • FREDINOHIO
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:46pm

      We have only one choice in this election. We either vote for Romney or whoever you vote for will be a vote for Obama. Do you really hate Romney so much that you continue to cast doubt on the choice? I you convince even one person to not vote for Romney you should be seriously ashamed of yourself, Mutiny.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:05pm

      Hi MONK, I’ve said it before and will say it again. I am in favor of making Ron Paul the Secretary of the Treasury, but with lots and lots of adult supervision.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:15pm

      @the monk

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OfX28V-UmI Soros endorses Romney.

      The panel was designed to look at cutting fat out of the defense department. Do you not think that is a good idea? Do you think the defense department has zero waste? Dont be naive.

      @comcast and bannie

      You must be new here. I am against things all of those things and rail against the constantly here. The problem I have is Romney is for the same garbage as Obama.

      Economy – Romney has a budget that doesnt cut current spending levels. That means he is endorsing Obama’s spending levels.

      National debt – Romney even if he adopts the Paul Ryan plan only cuts 500 billion a year. That leaves us with 25 trillion + in debt in ten years.

      Southern border – Our problem with the southern border is two fold one we give illegals free stuff. Romney doesnt end that. Second we are fighting a federal drug war that has cost us over a trillion dollars. The war is lost, drugs are here.

      National securtity – Osama Bin Laden in 1998 said on CBS he was declaring war on us. His reason was our “occupation” in the Muslim holy lands of Saudi Arabia. 15 of 18 911 hijackers were Saudi . Invading these countries only brings more hostility towards us. We cannot bankrupt our country in fear of being attacked. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan and the rest of the middle east cannot attack us. No country has the logistics to launch an invasion on us.

      Its time to wake u

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:18pm

      @bannie

      If you are going drowning you have three options do nothing, grab the half inflated raft, or get to shore. The problem we face is the river we are drowning in has a death insuring waterfall up ahead. Grabbing the half inflated raft means you still die.

      Some of us want to swim to shore.

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    • Watermain
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:18pm

      Anyone out there that is running or may run is less evil than who we have now, I think.

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    • Chutz30
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:33pm

      @ Mutiny

      Please post one fact to back any of that. I can debunk that in two sentences. 1) Romney isn’t in office so you have no clue what he will do. 2) We’ve been fighting Islam since we ratified a constitution, it was our very first foreign war.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:37pm

      @fred

      You are the one who should be ashamed of yourself. People like you gave us McCain and now Romney. The GOP doesnt own my vote. They have to earn it.

      Why would I vote for someone who has the same major polices as Obama? If you did your own research instead of allowing Fox news and morons like Rush, Oreilly, Hannity, Levin, and Beck to tell you who to vote for you in no way could support Romney.

      1. Romney is pro FED.
      2. Romney is pro UN.
      3. Romney is pro continuing wars that are bankrupting us.
      4. Romney is pro gun control.
      5. Romney has been pro choice all his life and will do zero work on trying to overturn Roe v Wade.
      6. Romney is pro Patriot Act.
      7. Romney is pro NDAA.
      8. Romney is pro bailouts.
      9. Romney believes man is a factor in global warming.
      10. Romney is pro amnesty.

      Tell me, what major policy differences are there between Romney and Obama?

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:05pm

      @chut

      Economy – http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-06-18/commentary/32283535_1_tax-plan-bush-tax-cuts-tax-rates

      Debt – http://www.therightperspective.org/2012/04/09/paul-ryan-budget-doesnt-cut-anything-of-substance-ron-paul/

      Southern border – What facts are needed here. We give free stuff to legals. Do you really want to debate if it brings them here or not?

      National security – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhJwxYsomw&feature=related Osama Bin Laden interview on CBS in 1998. He even says there will be more attacks like the one like the first attack on the World trade center because of our occupation.

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    • IsThereADifference
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Chutz30, You’re right. We have no idea what Romney will do. He is a weathervane candidate of no real substance, a progressive, and a compromiser who cares about nothing but the power that comes along with election and re-election.

      It is sad how easily the Amercian people were convinced to walked away from the constitution and towards progressivism.

      Yes; Obama is worse, but the sheeple are still sheeple, and have yet to wake up to the fact that their parties are being controlled by establishment progressives. Obama may win again because some people like to learn things the hard way.

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    • The0bserver
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:05am

      @Mutiny, can’t argue with your Romney list. The fact is, we only have two choices. We know that O is communist. If you don’t vote, the communist wins. If Romney is as bad as you say, and he is just like O, then it wouldn’t hurt to vote for Romney.

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  • wraith67
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:37pm

    Yep. The amount of ammo he had at the house is irrelevant. It makes for an interesting aside from breathless ****** reporters to say so-and-so had xxxx rounds at the house – if the guy had a million rounds, it wouldn’t matter, he wasn’t carrying it all.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:53pm

      I went through 500 rounds at the range with a friend in about an hour. So these dopey Marxists that complain about “thousands of rounds found in a house” have little meaning to me and most of society. Gosh, the MSM could make it seem that 2000 rounds of lethal .22LR was found, in reality that would be less that 4 boxes and $40.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:36pm

    All that and he surrendered meekly to police. Just doesn’t make sense.

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    • DEFCON4
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:51pm

      @gonzo- I have been thinking that same thought since the first time I heard of the murders……..

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:08pm

      Hi Gonzo,

      I think the police were already out back, could not open the door and Holmes walked out (in shock of what he witnessed himself doing) and the Police just tackled him and put him in cuffs.

      I think he was in shock.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:22pm

      That makes some sense Monk. I just can’t imagine going as far as he did and not committing suicide by cop. He had to know it was either death or life in prison. I would take death, no question. Not understanding a nut is a good thing I suppose.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:21pm

      GONZO, MONK, This might be an oversimplification of the incident. But, I think that the actual act that Holmes committed really physically drained him. If he came down from an adrenalin high, I’m sure he found himself too exhausted, as well as too dazed and confused to continue. He likely practised his ‘mission,’ be he was not in any way as well trained as any cop or service member.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:46pm

      Yeah it does. He wore the equipment as a disguise to keep people from being able to identify physical details, especially facial details. That’s the only purpose it served. Who the hell was going to shoot him in a gun free zone?

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    • nosharia
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:00pm

      ….and…. how could so many FBI agents be there within on hour? They had advance notice. None of them were shot. Fast & Furious Phase 2?

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    • AmericanMiscellany
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:39pm

      Did he have help?

      http://www.naturalnews.com/036612_Batman_massacre_covert_op.html

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  • All Pro
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:36pm

    Face forearms and the back of everything is totally exposed. My 40 cal Sig would have made short work of him. He wasn’t trained, I’m a combat Vet. Always look very closely for exposed areas, then go for it because you have nothing to lose in that situation.

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  • BornWithCommonSense
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:35pm

    Thankfully he didn’t have real training with clearing a jammed firearm. If I remember correctly the Az shooter also had a problem with his aftermarket magazine jamming the gun. Then someone rushed and wrestled him to the ground.
    Never place your life on the line with an aftermarket magazine.
    Also with the availability to get soft/hard body armor on the internet. You should practice the Mozambique drill (2 to the chest and 1 to the head).
    My GOD keep you and your family safe.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:49pm

      For sure. He sucked with firearms and it’s a damn good thing.

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  • republic2011
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:33pm

    Good luck buying some of that stuff in CA, but that doesn‘t mean the same thing couldn’t happen here. Where there is a will, there is a way… and don‘t think the criminals and drug dealers don’t have this type of equipment. Worse yet, a lot of them have done a tour of duty in our armed services overseas, so, now, they don’t only have guns, they have training; which makes them even more dangerous. The average citizen, with an M-16 submachine gun wouldn’t have a chance against these guys with tactical training, gang money, etc. Think about it. You really think more laws will help? Look at Illinois, New Jersey, New York… any safer? I think not.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:40pm

      WHAT HORROR?

      Police use this equipment all the time. Are our police a Horror too. Was this Arora massacre ordered by the White House to force a gun ban or passage of the UN Civilian Disarmament Treaty. Obama has a Kill List so what does it matter if a movie theater is on the Kill List to these people.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:31am

      In Mexico possession of a firearm is punishable by a mandatory 30 year sentence.
      In Mexico 50,000 mostly unarmed citizens have been put to death in the last six years. 
      Look at Cities in the US. Severe anti-gun laws equal very high murder rates.
      This is a fact in every case.
      Criminals dont like return fire.

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:41pm

      Neofan doesn‘t have any idea what he’s talking about when it comes to Mexican gun laws. It is completely legal to own a firearm in Mexico under a certain caliber.

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  • rich43068
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:30pm

    Looks like my poll watcher outfit …. oh, oops, I mean the black panthers outfit ….
    I’ll bring my I.D. card.

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  • dd829
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:26pm

    Right you are! I added up the weight of ammo and guns only and came up with 259lb.

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  • ronin_6
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:19pm

    While there is no doubt that it would have been tough to take this guy down with a small caliber pistol round, which is what someone would have been carrying had ccw been allowed in this county, it wouldn’t have been tough to mob the guy and physically restrain him. We have a herd mentality in times of crisis. Either the herd runs or the herd circles around and the young and fights. I believe that if one person had found it in them to jump the guy others would have helped out. I counsel my boys that if they find themselves in a situation like this, keep a cool head, and when the opportunity presents itself fight back. My boys have also studied kajukenbo since they were six. I believe that offering resistance is always better than dying while trying to hide. Like the old saying ‘Go ahead and run. You‘ll only die tired’.
    I say we change the culture and encourage active resistance to these psychos.
    ‘Turn the other cheek’ means to offer courage in the face of adversity, not to sit there and take it.

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    • Thighmaster
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:36pm

      I’m no expert but I would think the outfit would be more effective against the police shooting back at him. The weakness would be if someone took him down it would be difficult to move your body quickly and efficiently unless you were trained wearing the suit.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:29pm

      I told my kid if he is in such a situation & he has a CCW to go for then head. It doesn’t matter if he has body armor. The face mask could be bullet proof. But is his face mask shock proof? Even if the rounds don’t penetrate & the armor save him maybe the blows disorient him giving you time to aim better, or rush him. No way the visor on the face mask would be thick enough to be bullet proof.
      With a little training a person could place a few bullets in a a group 3 to 6 inches wide & hity a targrt the size of a head.

      If you rush him with a lot of adrenaline there is a chance you can close the distance. You stand a good chance of dying, but if all you are going to do is shield your girl friend you are going to die anyway. All it takes is for one person to charge. they can fail. Chance are the next 1 or 2 people are going to finish the job & finish the perp.

      There was no reason for such a high body count. That there was such a high count is an indication of the inroads liberalism has made.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:32pm

      I watched a recently made nature film. It showed musk ox versus wolves. The musk ox only got taken down if they stampeded. When the herbivores circled with horns out they were safe.

      The people in the theater stampeded.

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    • rabblechat
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Good point, and if more folks fought back, we would have less of the events.

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    • ronin_6
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:04pm

      @Walkabout
      While I believe your sentiments are in the right place, I do not think that anyone would be able to hit someone in the face in that scenario. Tear gas, smoke, dark of the theatre, people around you panicking, flashes and distractions from the movie screen, and a moving perpetrator in dark clothing shooting at you. I would remind you of the North Hollywood shoot out of 1997. Cops couldn’t put rounds on target in broad daylight.
      I have spent 23 years in the infantry and I don’t believe I could put rounds on target in that scenario. Not in the face. Might be able to hit center mass. Still better than nothing and it just might give people that extra second to physically take him down.
      We say it all the time “A good offense is the best defense” yet pop culture tells everyone to not be a hero. Its not being a hero, its doing the right thing. Take these psychos out when they attack!

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    • AngryDwarf
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:29pm

      @RONIN_6
      I agree. Too many variables to predict what your reaction would be. This whole thing was just messy.

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  • Firesaber
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:15pm

    I like how they show all the rounds of ammo. Okay, if he’s carrying that much ammo, he’s not moving. It would weigh hundreds of pounds of equipment. Regardless, if the entire front row had rushed him, the man would have gotten off 3 shots (max) and maybe not even hit anyone. It’s harder to aim when people are rushing you. Ask any soldier. It’s a lot different than a video game.

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    • Locked
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:33pm

      “I like how they show all the rounds of ammo. Okay, if he’s carrying that much ammo, he’s not moving. It would weigh hundreds of pounds of equipment.”

      *Cough*

      “All of the ammunition carried with him in person OR IN HIS CAR was purchased online.”

      Says right in the graphic that it included both the stuff on him and in his vehicle.

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    • Firesaber
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:51pm

      The implication is that the ammo could have made things worse. He could have a friggin’ tank in China. If he doesn’t have it ON him, he doesn’t have it. Was he going to ask the victims, “Please wait here while I go to my car and reload these clips? Thanks ever so much.”

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:51pm

      @Firesaber: mags.

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  • Judeo_Christian
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:13pm

    The AR was not a factor in this incident. It jammed right off with that 100 round magazine. The damage was done with a Shotgun. So all this “assault rifle” hoo haw is much ado about nothing!

    The government has no right to know how many weapons or rounds of ammunition that a citizen owns. It is none of their damn business!

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:13pm

    He did not have that much ammo on him. And by the way, even with the body armor, One person with a 9mm, 18 round, could have stopped him, his arms were vulnerable, hit center mass, the impact still hurts. A face shot, leg hit. he wasn’t invulnerable. And besides, no matter what law they put in place, like all the ones he broke commiting this crime, HE HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD PRIOR TO THIS.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:44pm

      Correctomundo! And it would have, at least, knocked him down from the impact, long enough for anyone to do something.
      I STILL don’t believe he was alone in this. His alleged diary showing up unopened for a week, sounds fishy, too. I just don’t believe an unemployed dropout would waste their own time and money on something like this. I think he had professional help. By the way, has anyone reported on the UN Treaty, yet?

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    • guz75
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:01pm

      I keep hearing that a person with a gun COULD HAVE dealt with him, no one seems to consider that a person with a gun in a dark smoke filled room COULD HAVE shot an innocent person trying to escape.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 5:59pm

      Once shot to the face or a whole mag into his armor and that dude would not have been able to stand. And depending on the armor quality some hot loaded handgun rounds like 9mm and above may have penetrated the armor.

      Tell us media wizbangs… What was the make and model(s) of the armor?

      You give models and such for all the weapons, why have you not disclosed the make and quality of armor he donned?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 6:48pm

      @guz75
      So, instead of defending yourself and possibly saving lives, you are saying “What if they hit a bystander” So, there would be 72 people shot instead of 71? There again, in any shoot out situation, it usually lasts less than 5 seconds, that is a fact. This guy stood there and shot at people for 20 minutes. Thing about what he wouild have done if as soon as he fired his first shots, suddenly there was return fire, I would bet a kidney, that he would have pee’d his pants and ran out the back. He also picked a theater that denies the right for anyone to carry a gun into their theater. Why didn’t he go to Lakewood, Thornton, Evergreen, Littleton, or Golden? All those cities allow concealed carry throughout the cities. He choose Aurora becasue (A) It is where he lived but (B) they have a restrictive carry law. The kid was smart enough to know this and probably knew the odds were, no one would have a gun.

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  • Bill Wallace
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:13pm

    Maybe that is the dialogue we need to have instead of gun control. How about some means of making sure government grants for school actually get used for school?

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  • SGinNC
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:11pm

    3000 rds of .223 for 680.00!! I need to find out where he got such a good deal!

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  • korbin
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:11pm

    I love the “ Be warned Folding Knife” Black hawk, I know lets use mm instead of inches it sounds bigger. 86mm= 3.3″ OMG

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:08pm

    A silver lining takeaway: “Looking closely at the ammunition and equipment involved, it becomes clear that last Friday’s attack could have been much worse.”

    NOTE: Not if you were one of those killed…

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  • oldeagle101
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:08pm

    They should drop him off in the middle of Afghanistan if he likes to shoot people and then we‘ll see how long he’s going to last.

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  • SCREW-WINDOWS
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:08pm

    Looks like suggested attire come Nov.

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  • korbin
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:02pm

    Puke…

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  • GO-FOR-LIBERTY
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:01pm

    Yikes!!!! This guy was going to his own war. Premeditated you bet.

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  • WillG
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:59pm

    Guess this is what his College $$$ was spent on.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:57pm

    It goes to show you what a $26,000 Federal Grant can get you.

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  • M-O-O-N Spells Moon
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:56pm

    I suspect the person who put this together overlooks the sheer physical weight of that ammunition. I’m sorry, but there is no way he could have carried all of that ammo without a wheel barrow or a couple accomplices. Possibly he meant to use up what he could carry and then visit his car to reload.

    The other point that irritates me is the anti-gunners focus on the extended capacity magazines. Most people who shoot (legally, of course) know that these extra large magazines like to jam. All signs in this case lead back to the discussion that lawmakers don’t seem to want to engage in: how do we identify and deal with our mentally ill citizens? Every time the left goes rampant on anti-gun stances, everyone else has to confront their silliness with facts and Constitutional law, and the basic discussion about mental illness falls by the wayside again. Taking away the guns would just force a madman to use another improvised weapon such as the old favorite, fire.

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    • THX-1138
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:01pm

      Ever since Al Gore gave us the Internet we’ve had access to recipes for some very interesting explosive compounds that can literally be made from stuff you can get a Wal-Mart.

      Anyone with Internet access (which is a Universal Right) and a three digit IQ (apparently NOT a Universal Right) can make a single bomb that could easily have killed everyone in that theatre.

      Thankfully this maniac chose to use guns. Had he been forced to be a tad more inventive he might have killed a hundred people or more.

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    • GO-FOR-LIBERTY
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:04pm

      Indeed~~Just a box of shotgun shells will slow you down.

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:06pm

      read closer, it does not say he had all the ammo on him.

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    • M-O-O-N Spells Moon
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 3:32pm

      You‘re right that the article didn’t explicitly state he had this with him. However, I contend that the implied statement of the article is that since he purchased all of this gear he could have used it in his assault on the theater crowd. That should be considered a stretch of logic by anyone familiar with the physical attributes of the gear. That assumption is based on movie physics.

      My issue was not with the content of the article, but with the intent.

      My primary purpose in posting my comment was to draw attention to the real issue behind this gunman: he is apparently mentally ill, there were warning signs, and we did not have a way to deal with that before it became a tragedy. We don’t need any more restrictions on guns or ammo, we need to find a way to identify people who pose a risk through mental illness and get them help before they hurt others.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:07pm

      THX-1138

      Fertilizer is already controlled & monitored as is cough medicine. The Columbine killers rigged propane tanks which did not explode. Will we start controlling propane tanks the same way as fertilizer?

      If they do that there always TATP or whatever that can be made from the common household chemicals you mentioned? Will they control household cleaning chemicals?

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TATP
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_University_of_Oklahoma_bombing

      They’ll try. But the we know the liberal mind is a wasted mind.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 2:50pm

    Who sponsored him? Where did he get the cash?

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