On Friday, July 20th, at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises", a gunman lobbed a smoke grenade into the theater and then started shooting. When it was over, at least 12 people were dead and almost 60 people were injured. As I write this, I still cannot even wrap my head around this. Imagine going out for a night at the movies, to see a film that you have been anticipating so much that you are willing to attend one of the first showings, at midnight, and someone starts shooting. I don't know about you, but I can't comprehend it.
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Almost immediately after this happened, the usual collection started spouting off about violence in films and how it leads to tragedies like this. BULLSHIT!
I am so sick and tired of hearing this same nonsense over and over again. I have been watching insane, violent films for 30 years, and it never occurred to me to stroll into a public place and shoot anyone. Why? Because like the vast majority of people, I have the genetic programming that tells me that doing things like this is inherently wrong. Some people are just not wired right. Period. End of Story. There is no explaining it. There is no rationalizing it. They just don't have the same programming that the rest of us do.
Did "The Godfather" spur an increase in organized crime? Did "Office Space" cause people across the country to simply stop going to work and get promoted for it? No, I don't think so. People are in such a rush to try and find a reason that horrible events happen. Sometimes boys and girls, there is no reason. Bad things happen. It sucks, but that's the way it is.
CLICK HERE FOR THE CNN STORY
Almost immediately after this happened, the usual collection started spouting off about violence in films and how it leads to tragedies like this. BULLSHIT!
I am so sick and tired of hearing this same nonsense over and over again. I have been watching insane, violent films for 30 years, and it never occurred to me to stroll into a public place and shoot anyone. Why? Because like the vast majority of people, I have the genetic programming that tells me that doing things like this is inherently wrong. Some people are just not wired right. Period. End of Story. There is no explaining it. There is no rationalizing it. They just don't have the same programming that the rest of us do.
Did "The Godfather" spur an increase in organized crime? Did "Office Space" cause people across the country to simply stop going to work and get promoted for it? No, I don't think so. People are in such a rush to try and find a reason that horrible events happen. Sometimes boys and girls, there is no reason. Bad things happen. It sucks, but that's the way it is.
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