I'm not all that surprised a mass shooter would wear a gas mask, and bullet proof vest.
Part of the fetish relationship between gun nuts and their weapons is the degree to which the weapons and their accessories have a strong emotional connection to their adherents. They get excitement, an emotional reaction from them, that ordinary equipment or items do not provide. It is part of a larger fantasy experience with gun nuts, part of a whole video-game/violent movie atmosphere heroics; they need the whole costume for the power rush. It seems similar to the kick that people get from the props for kinky sex. Watch a gun nut talking about their firearms sometime; look carefully at their affect for the emotions connected with firearms and related items. There are distinctive emotional changes that take place when the fetish items are involved.
That's why you see people inappropriately carrying firearms at social events, like the one Laci described here recently.
After becoming a focus for ridicule for his Dark Knight /Bain/Bane conspiracy theories........I wonder if Rush Limbaugh, or maybe the NRA is going to try to make up another silly liberal conspiracy theory out of this shooting at the movie, another bogus claim that this was done as a justification for Obama coming for their guns? Because Limp-bo and the NRA ARE that sick and twisted, althoguh it's hard to tell if it's from organic paranoia brought on by their politics deforming their amygdalas, or maybe just lead toxicity (or both).
from the STrib:
Part of the fetish relationship between gun nuts and their weapons is the degree to which the weapons and their accessories have a strong emotional connection to their adherents. They get excitement, an emotional reaction from them, that ordinary equipment or items do not provide. It is part of a larger fantasy experience with gun nuts, part of a whole video-game/violent movie atmosphere heroics; they need the whole costume for the power rush. It seems similar to the kick that people get from the props for kinky sex. Watch a gun nut talking about their firearms sometime; look carefully at their affect for the emotions connected with firearms and related items. There are distinctive emotional changes that take place when the fetish items are involved.
That's why you see people inappropriately carrying firearms at social events, like the one Laci described here recently.
After becoming a focus for ridicule for his Dark Knight /Bain/Bane conspiracy theories........I wonder if Rush Limbaugh, or maybe the NRA is going to try to make up another silly liberal conspiracy theory out of this shooting at the movie, another bogus claim that this was done as a justification for Obama coming for their guns? Because Limp-bo and the NRA ARE that sick and twisted, althoguh it's hard to tell if it's from organic paranoia brought on by their politics deforming their amygdalas, or maybe just lead toxicity (or both).
from the STrib:
1 suspect arrested in Denver area mass shooting involving gunman who wore gas mask
- Article by: Associated Press
- Updated: July 20, 2012 - 6:26 AMAURORA, Colo. - A police spokesman says the gas mask-wearing suspect arrested in connection with a mass shooting in the Denver suburb of Aurora is a man in his early 20s.Aurora police spokesman Frank Fania told ABC's "Good Morning America" that investigators don't believe anyone else was involved.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says witnesses reported the person released some type of a canister, then they heard a hissing sound and saw a gas — and then the gunman started shooting.
Officers found the suspect near a car behind the theater and also located a gas mask, rifle, handgun and at least another weapon.
The suspect's name hasn't been released and police haven't indicated if there was a motive.
" They get excitement, an emotional reaction from them, that ordinary equipment or items do not provide. It is part of a larger fantasy experience with gun nuts, part of a whole video-game/violent movie atmosphere heroics; they need the whole costume for the power rush. "
ReplyDeleteGreat observation.
Much of gunloonery depends on being perceived as something they are not. They want to be Special Forces but don't have the discipline and smarts necessary to join the military. IOW, they wish to be perceived as Navy SEALs but don't want to have to get into shape or actually learn anything--they just want to buy that persona.
My previous comment was published before it was finished.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew and his wife live in the area where the theater is, they are HUGE fans of a lot of the currently popular films (I'm hoping that they are not "Dark Knight" fans) and in all likelihood knew someone who was going to that cineplex. I'm just hoping that they weren't there.
What is the tally for the WMMSI* for 7/15/12--7/21/12? 17-18? I lose track and, hey, it's only friday they could easily add another half dozen or more today and tomorrow.
As I stated elsewhere.
"Right, cuz’ nothin’ sez “I’M protecting my 2nd Amendment rights!” like shooting 60 or more people in a crowded movie theater.".
It's wonderful to know that unlike the 1st Amendment, which sorta prohibits shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, that the UNLIMITED 2ND AMENDMENT allows folks to OPEN FIRE in a crowded theater.
It's almost too bad that certain idiots who are BOYcotting this site aren't here to tell us how much better things would have turned out if all of the theatergoers (including the wounded 3 months old baby) had been appropriately armed for a shoot-out in the dark.
* Weekly Manly Mass Shooting Index
A shootout with an armored shooter, with multiple weapons, in the midst of gas cannisters blowing tear gas around, that the gun nuts would then self-congratulate each other over as a righteous shooting.
DeleteJust imagine how many MORE deaths and injuries there would be if some vigilante old fat white crabby NRA member HAD opened up with his fetish 'equalizer'?
I did hear one interesting new tid bit this morning; after Columbine, the state of Colorado had closed their gun show sale loophole. All non-FFL gun sales at gun shows are required to first go through a back ground check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. It is their equivalent to our Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Apparently it uses multiple data bases for their background checks.
On the other hand, there is lots of legal open carry allowed apparently, AND 20+ gun stores in the immediate vicinity. Also as this guy drove a vehicle appaerntly with Tennessee plates, it is unclear if that may have been his source of arms and armament for this mass shooting.
But hey-- it's all ok with the gun nuts so long as nothing whatsoever is done to make us safer by effectively keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, crazy people, drug users and terrorists. And yet so many of this same crowd has no problem depriving legal people of their right to vote.
It's like all those pro-life people who are gung-ho rah rah rah rah death penalty supporters.
Probably the fucknut wore the gas mask because he was tossing pepper and smoke grenades.
ReplyDeleteDressing all in black does seem to make it both a practical application, but also a fashion/personal identity statement as well.
DeleteThe two are not mutually exclusive.
Ownership of multiple weapons does suggest he was one of your gun nuts, another epic fail for gun culture and the NRA position on gun regulation.
"I did hear one interesting new tid bit this morning; after Columbine, the state of Colorado had closed their gun show sale loophole. All non-FFL gun sales at gun shows are required to first go through a back ground check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation."
ReplyDeleteThis link (http://www.rmgo.org/gun-law-faqs/) seems to contradict your observation.
In the event, the guy was able to get a number of firearms, walk into a theater and shoot 50--60 people.
As has been said, numerous times, the external costs of the "RIGHT" to bear arms is spread across the community at large, including millions of folks who don't own and don't want to own gunz. I'm sure that there will be no single source for the cost accounting on this "unforseeable tragedy". It will run, no doubt, into the millions for treatment of the wounded; burial/cremation of the dead; counselling for their loved ones and others traumatized by the event; fuel, supplies, overtime and other expenses incurred by both public and private emergency responders; repairs to damaged private and public property; loss of revenues from any affected businesses--among other $ costs. The suffering and loss of a sense of safety and security to the entire area and (much of the rest of the country) is, by its nature, incalculable.
All of it, the monetary loss, the visible physical trauma and property damage, the invisible (and, often unknowable) traum suffered by survivors of the event and surviving members of the victims and their friends--so that a tiny %age of demented fucks whose "freedom" to be complete assholez is "constitutionally protected". Shame on them, all of them.
There were at least 100 FBI agents, and an unknown number of other law enforcement officers and lab staff present.
ReplyDeleteThe price tag on that alone is going to be huge.