12 Shot Dead, 50 Wounded During Dark Knight Rises Showing in Colorado [UPDATES]
So I hate to harp on this terrible tragedy, but at last night's shooting at a TDKR premiere, a six year old and a THREE MONTH OLD BABY were wounded.
Now, I'm not going to try to claim that parents shouldn't bring young children to movies because they might get shot, as this was obviously a freak occurrence.
However, the simple idea that a parent would bring a 3 month-old baby to a midnight showing of ANY movie, much less one as intense and surely deafening as TDKR, is frankly
appalling. There is absolutely no way an
infant could sit through an entire movie full of violent action, gunfire, and explosions without crying. This is a movie
premiere for jeebus-sake! They knew full well the theater will be completely, 100% packed. Were they just
trying to ruin everyone's experience?
Now, I'll admit that we do not have all the facts yet, and perhaps there is some understandable reason why an infant was at a movie theater past midnight... But I doubt it.
Regardless, I want to emphasize that this was a horrible tragedy wrought by a sick individual. And I am in no way trying to make light of the events.