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Cinemark and the Aurora Colorado Survivors

July 3, 2016 B. John 552 Views 3 Comments Aurora, Cinemark, Colorado, Legal Fees

There’s been a big brouhaha on Facebook about reports that Cinemark Theaters if seeking to recover nearly $700,000 dollars from the survivors and families of those injured or killed in the theater shooting there on July 12, 2012. Twelve people were killed, and over 70 wounded when James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the crowd during a midnight showing of the Dark Night Rises film in the Batman series.

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Back with My Thoughts on the Aurora Shooting

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 B. John 412 Views 0 Comments American Family Association, Arizona, Aurora, CO, Colorado, Congress, Damian Goddard, Dare2Share, Dark Night, Fred Jackson, Greg Stier, Guns, Huff Post, Jerry Newcomb, Jim Hoft, Liberty University, Louie Gohmert, Madness, Matt Barber, Mike Adams, National Organization for Marriage, Nom, One News Now, Onenewsnow, Operation Save America, Pat McEwen, Russell Pearce, Shooting, texas, twitter

Everyone needs to just take a breath, and let’s bring some sanity to the discussion. We all want to know why. We want to understand how this person came to this place. We want to assign some motivation, some identifiable cause. We want to blame someone or something so it will look like we can control these situations. We want these answers because we want to be safe. Blame doesn’t mend the families or even the nation. The answers given so far are little more than bandages that easily fail after just a few dips in reality. Because there isn’t a good answer, we need to just stop and say a prayer for the families and friends of the victims in Aurora and a scared nation.