Mass Shootings

1 Aurora Co / WI Sikh Temple / CT School / 1/9/2013 10:57:29 PM

1 “Joker” in Theater shooting and Apartment bombing; shooting at Sikh temple; apparent copy cats. ThenElementary school in CT.

Mass ShootingsAurora Co Theater;1 Sikh Wi Temple;

Newtown CT School.2

News etc. digested by Alister William Macintyre about mass attacks, recently in USA.3Breaking news, and catching up – what do we know so far? Some of my info may beincorrect. I update, as time goes on, but interest wanes as other hot stories grab ourattention. There is enormous speculation, before reliable confirmed facts come out.

Last updated 2013 Jan 09Version 1.7

Navigating Al Mac Notes ............................................................................................... 6Introduction Summary ........................................................................................................ 9

US coverage discrepancy.......................................................................................... 13Left-Right Wing trouble makers ................................................................................... 15Corrections Colorado .................................................................................................... 22

Bombs Where............................................................................................................ 22Disaster Worst Ever .................................................................................................. 22Gag Orders ................................................................................................................ 23Gas Canisters ............................................................................................................ 23Guns .......................................................................................................................... 23Mental Ill................................................................................................................... 23Misquoted?................................................................................................................ 23Rapid fire, many round clips..................................................................................... 23Tea Party ................................................................................................................... 24Theater Exit Doors.................................................................................................... 24UC Psychiatrist Package ........................................................................................... 24

Corrections & Contradictions Wisconsin ..................................................................... 25Big Picture ................................................................................................................ 25Guns .......................................................................................................................... 26Hate Groups .............................................................................................................. 26Suicide....................................................................................................................... 27Tattoos....................................................................................................................... 27

1 Pages 39-44, and around 183, have most recent additions to Aurora Theater mass shooting incident.2 Pages 75-146 (72 pages) have Dec-26 to Jan-09 updated info about Newton CT Elementary Schoolincident, and info on other notable incidents, since some news media says EVERY incident is the worstever in history, which seems statistically unlikely. I have been adding what various people think arepossible solutions, with my commentary, where I have my own ideas what is best.3 I will increment version #s when uploading, so interested people can quickly see when there is new infoon shared site.



Victims Funds ............................................................................................................... 27Aurora Victims.......................................................................................................... 28Sikh Victims.............................................................................................................. 29

FAQ Background .............................................................................................................. 29Why combine events..................................................................................................... 29Al, why are you studying this? ..................................................................................... 31Time Zones ................................................................................................................... 32Sikh Celebration............................................................................................................ 33Anti-Muslim Idiots and Haters ..................................................................................... 36

Copy Cats.......................................................................................................................... 36Time Line Aurora ............................................................................................................. 39

Time Line – a few months in advance (+more Jan-10+) .......................................... 40About one month in advance (+more Jan 10+)......................................................... 41Week or two in advance (+more Jan-10+)................................................................ 42

Times – July 19-20 Violence (+more Jan-10+) ............................................................ 43Times 0.44+ Staging Consensus (not) ...................................................................... 45Times 0.46+ Need medical rescue inside theater...................................................... 46Times 0.48+ Out of Ambulances .............................................................................. 47Times 0.54+ 10+ victims need medical help at back exit......................................... 48Times 0.59+ Fire Dept priority shifts – was rushing all available units to the scene,now organizing clusters of aid sites .......................................................................... 50Times 1.25+ Crisis center now hospitals and bombs................................................ 54Times 2 am+ Apartment complex evacuation begins............................................... 55Times 3.15 am+ News media briefed ....................................................................... 56Times 5.15 am+ Crisis points: movie wounded to hospitals; shooter car & apt withbombs........................................................................................................................ 56Times 6 am+ more bomb squads to the apt .............................................................. 58Time Line 7-21 + ...................................................................................................... 61

Time Line 7-22 – Aftermath Immediate ....................................................................... 63Time Line 7-23 + ...................................................................................................... 64Time Line 7-24 + ...................................................................................................... 66

Time Line 7-27 – Week after........................................................................................ 67Time Line Aug 5+ Sikh Temple WI shooting .............................................................. 69

Time Line attack begins on Sikh .............................................................................. 70Time Line Sikh victims............................................................................................. 72Time Line Briefings.................................................................................................. 72

Time Line 2013 Aurora Co........................................................................................... 73Heroics in the Theater ................................................................................................... 74Good Services ............................................................................................................... 74

Texas A&M ...................................................................................................................... 74Newtown CT Elementary School ..................................................................................... 74

Authorities confirmed information ........................................................................... 75Victims Named Dec-15............................................................................................. 76Official Info Sources................................................................................................. 76Local News Sources.................................................................................................. 77Other Major News Sources....................................................................................... 78



Lessons never learned ............................................................................................... 79Info communication formatting (more Dec 25+).......................................................... 80Gun Control Statistics ................................................................................................... 80Making Safer Schools (More Jan 06+) ......................................................................... 81

Armed personnel on school property +..................................................................... 83Fortress Schools +..................................................................................................... 87Armed but Unqualified personnel on school property + .......................................... 89Change our Ideology+ .............................................................................................. 89Common Sense Gun Safety+ .................................................................................... 90Secondary Guns Market............................................................................................ 90Stupid and Bad Ideas ................................................................................................ 92Schools across America (Jan 06+)............................................................................ 92

Time Line Sandy Hook Elementary ............................................................................. 93Legislation can change.............................................................................................. 931989 Mass Shooting at an Elementary School (add Jan 09+) .................................. 931998 Lanza family arrives in Newtown CT (more Dec 26+) ................................... 942007+ (more Jan-08+) .............................................................................................. 942010+ (more Jan-08+) .............................................................................................. 96Dec 14 Fri Massacre ................................................................................................. 97Dec 14-16 (More Dec 29+)....................................................................................... 98Dec-16 Sun + .......................................................................................................... 100Dec-17 Mon + (More Dec 26+) ............................................................................. 101Dec-18 (More Dec 28+).......................................................................................... 102Dec-19 Wed + (more Dec-25+) ............................................................................. 103Dec-21 + (more Dec 28+) ...................................................................................... 105Dec-21 NRA (more Jan 06+)................................................................................. 107Dec-23 (More Dec 27+) Journalists join the story ................................................. 109Dec-26+ (More Dec 28+) ....................................................................................... 111Different school building end 2013 ........................................................................ 112Start 2013 (add Jan-06+)......................................................................................... 112

Bogus News ................................................................................................................ 114Rumors denied ........................................................................................................ 116Altercations fantasy ................................................................................................ 117Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories............................................................................ 118State of Art .............................................................................................................. 119Witnesses unreliable ............................................................................................... 121

Newton info third day Dec-16 .................................................................................... 122Newtown info second day Dec-15.............................................................................. 123

Knee Jerk Debate Topics ........................................................................................ 123Guns Parenting (start Jan-05).................................................................................. 124

Newtown School info begins Dec-14 ......................................................................... 124Initial CT breaking news confusion........................................................................ 125Deaths in Newtown CT........................................................................................... 126Mental Health in General........................................................................................ 129Mental Health Victim Families............................................................................... 130Mental Health First Responders.............................................................................. 130



Mental Health Shooter Family................................................................................ 130Shooter Lanza Family ............................................................................................. 132Guns involved = a violence cliff ............................................................................. 133Doomsday Mentality............................................................................................... 135Lawsuits? ................................................................................................................ 136NJ CT IL confusion ................................................................................................ 136News anchor reactions ............................................................................................ 137

School Shootings in Perspective ................................................................................. 139Shooting Statistics (more Dec 28+) ....................................................................... 139Worst Fantasy ......................................................................................................... 143Worst Past History .................................................................................................. 144

NY Fire Ambush 2012 Christmas Eve ........................................................................... 146Investigating Sikh Temple incidents............................................................................... 147

Reactions..................................................................................................................... 147Victims........................................................................................................................ 149What Happened?......................................................................................................... 149Shooter’s Gun ............................................................................................................. 150Shooter – Info so far ................................................................................................... 150

Motive ..................................................................................................................... 151The guy, the shooter................................................................................................ 152White Supremacist .................................................................................................. 152Neo Nazi ................................................................................................................. 153Army Dishonor ....................................................................................................... 154

Congressional Hearings .............................................................................................. 155Civil Rights Organizations.......................................................................................... 155

Investigating Aurora Co incidents .................................................................................. 155Charges ................................................................................................................... 156

Captive Target Audience ............................................................................................ 157Victim Recovery Infrastructure .................................................................................. 158Shooter Family............................................................................................................ 159Shooter School Clues.................................................................................................. 159

Psychiatrist Concerns.............................................................................................. 161PSU Parallel ............................................................................................................ 163

Statistics & Reactions ..................................................................................................... 164Lawsuits ...................................................................................................................... 165Violence Death Rates.................................................................................................. 166

Police vs. Felon Killing........................................................................................... 168Mass Shootings in America ............................................................................................ 169Guns in America ............................................................................................................. 171

Guns Discussions ........................................................................................................ 173HATE Movement in America......................................................................................... 177Mental Illness.................................................................................................................. 177

Very smart vs. having psychiatric problems........................................................... 177Violent vs. Mentally Ill ........................................................................................... 178Will he face the death penalty? ............................................................................... 178Can he get a fair trial? ............................................................................................. 178



Not-guilty by reason of insanity?............................................................................ 178Signs of Mental Illness............................................................................................ 179Evidence of Sanity .................................................................................................. 179Neither..................................................................................................................... 180

Columbine similarities ................................................................................................ 181VA Tech similarities ................................................................................................... 181UNA Bomber .............................................................................................................. 182Personal....................................................................................................................... 182

Aurora Trial Info (+more Jan 09+) ................................................................................. 183Trial Raw Chaotic Wounds (added Jan 09+) .............................................................. 183Not Know Yet ............................................................................................................. 184

Mitigation Ideas .............................................................................................................. 184Back Exit................................................................................................................. 185

Dangerous Registration............................................................................................... 186First Responder Coordination ..................................................................................... 187Personal preparedness................................................................................................. 190Comparative Religion ................................................................................................. 191

Links for Aurora Colorado Incidents .............................................................................. 192Police: ......................................................................................................................... 192Maps:........................................................................................................................... 192Unofficial time lines: .................................................................................................. 193General info about the city:......................................................................................... 193

Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora Colorado.......................................................... 193General news reports about the movie theatre event. ................................................. 194

Stories at KDVR ..................................................................................................... 195Miracle Survivals: ....................................................................................................... 196Dealing with the shooter’s apartment: ........................................................................ 196Stories about the shooter’s background: ..................................................................... 196Reddit.......................................................................................................................... 196Gun Law debate flares up again: ................................................................................ 197Advance terrorist alert................................................................................................. 197

Investigating Newtown CT School incident ................................................................... 198Links for Attack on Wisconsin Sikh Temple.................................................................. 198

Official Sources and Big Picture................................................................................. 198News Media closest to the Sikh Community.............................................................. 199News Media in India................................................................................................... 199

Al Mac Notes .................................................................................................................. 199Newton CT Elementary School addition ................................................................ 200

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Version 1.0.................................................................................................................. 204Version 0.9.................................................................................................................. 204

V 0.9 Combined new updates ................................................................................. 204V 0.9 Aurora new updates ...................................................................................... 205V 0.9 Sikh new updates .......................................................................................... 205

Version 0.8.................................................................................................................. 205Version 0.7 Sikh Temple Wisconsin dimension......................................................... 206

Aurora headlines still to absorb actual details ........................................................ 208Version 0.6 Psychiatrist News .................................................................................... 209Version 0.5.................................................................................................................. 209Version 0.4 <= 0.3 ...................................................................................................... 210Al’s G+ on Sikh Threads ............................................................................................ 211

Aug-8 Wed afternoon / evening.............................................................................. 211Aug-7 afternoon / evening ...................................................................................... 212Aug-7 Tues wee hours ............................................................................................ 212Aug-6 Mon afternoon / evening.............................................................................. 212Aug-6 Mon wee hours ............................................................................................ 214Aug-5 Sun afternoon / evening ............................................................................... 214

Humor in Bad Taste ........................................................................................................ 217Aurora Reactions .................................................................................................... 217

Navigating Al Mac NotesI started these notes to help wrap my mind around what happenedwith one crime wave, and while that was still on-going, we hadanother explosion elsewhere. Then as there is an occasional trickleof more info on the first two, we have explosion # 3.

1. Aurora Colorado Cinema 16, and shooter bomb factory, firsthitting the news July-20, 2012.

2. Wisconsin Sikh Temple getting attacked Aug-5, 2012.3. Newtown CT Elementary School attacked Dec-14, 2012.

They may turn out to be totally unrelated, but initial info had someapparent similarities.

My notes are organized into several broad categories: Introductory Remarks Corrections and Conflicting stories … we hear one

version of reality, then a different story … I show what I think isthe truth, and sometimes manage to explain why there was adifferent version.



FAQ Background … there are sometimes some obviousquestions, when some aspect of all this is not something manyof us have long been dealing with.

Time Line … sequence of events with a crisis, with infocoming out, what can be reconstructed about what happenedbefore the news broke … this is important for understandinghow a disaster could have been averted, what we need to do toavert future similar events, or mitigate them.

Investigations … what info is coming out, to explain whathappened, why it happened.

Statistics, Hate Groups, Gun Violence, Mental Illness …some incidents trigger debate over problems which exist in oursociety, over the nature of the problems, and what should bedone about them. We all knew about these problems beforethese latest incidents. These debates erupt again and again.Our society is divided on a lot of this, so we are not getting theproblems solved with any rapidity.

Mitigation Ideas … many people have proposed manysolutions to the info coming out via Time Line, Investigations,and other info I have shared earlier in my notes. I explain whysome of these “solutions” would not have prevented theincidents, although some may have independent merits. I alsolaunch some of my ideas for solutions.

Links … within the body of my notes, I try wherever practical,to cite sources. Where sources not cited, it can be due to mejotting down info from TV news,4 or what I knew from beforethese incidents, where I might not remember from where Ilearned things. This links section starts with official sources,such as authorities in the communities where the eventsoccurred, then moves to major news media, grouped by majorthreads.

Versions of these Notes … what major stuff just gotadded, in case you had an earlier version. In some of my notesI place date after chapter headings, to show when I lastupdated it. I have not been doing that here, because I have

4 I get ABC, C-Span, CBS, CNN, FOX, HLN, MSNBC, NBC, local affiliates, major cities like CHICAGO,and science channels like A&E, HISTORY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.



high hopes we will have closure much sooner than with someother topics I have been studying.

There are various other major events in the news, which lead to mekeeping notes like these. Others which have some overlappingrelevance may include:

Child Abuse Epidemic – I stopped maintaining this with myApril 2012 PC melt down. It was about people accused of thesame stuff as Jerry Sandusky, who use schools as playgroundsfor pedophiles. It was about misconduct and abuse by thepeople in charge of school safety. It was about other threats tothe safety of children outside the home.

Drone research notes – The USA has been accused by theUN and several nations, of doing war crimes with dronesaround the world, and now there is a rise in Drone use insidethe USA, where the feds seem interested only in air safety, notin Constitutional rights of privacy, and protecting from breaches,the massive data collected about what law abiding citizenshave been doing. We are now developing killer robots, whichwill decide what to do, who to kill, without a human in the loop.

Indy Boom – Indianapolis had an explosion harming 100+homes Nov-10. As we looked into this, we learn that the UShas a public utility infrastructure dying of old age, and a veryslow process for people learning how to cope when there areclues of another disaster about to happen.

School Bus Abductions – later I may rename thedocument. It is about an apparent epidemic of pedophilestargeting school bus stops, and children walking alone betweenschool and home. There is also a problem with many motoristsclaiming not to know the functions of school bus safety. Aschool bus stops, sticks out its stop sign, children start crossingthe street, and a motorist runs them down. Children commutingvs. school are abducted and killed, and the police never issuean Amber alert, which could have saved them.



Introduction SummaryInformation in my notes5 are for personal non-commercial use, toshare with my friends who have similar interests. As much aspossible, I cite original sources for information which I locate, vianews media stories, on TV, newspapers, and Internet.

This is a national tragedy, an assault on the American family.

Initially I named these notes after Aurora Co (Movie Theater), thenappended Sihk Wi (Temple), but with Newtown CT (ElementarySchool), changed it to Mass Shoot.

First, I suggest people watch one of the press conferences, withpolice, local DA, etc. to get the big picture, such as: /u/yelhsa87:Video of police describing shootings.6 The Police Chief said there’s alot of info about this on the Internet, and a lot of it is pranks, with falseinfo.7 Most major TV news are reporting both the official line, andhearing from alleged witnesses, with info which diverges from whatthe authorities have been saying.

Tips for writing about disasters, in general:8

Don’t use a location to describe an act. Aurora is a place, notan act.

Mass shootings create a lot of work for law enforcement and itwill take them a long time to answer all the questions. Worsestill, police may not get it right the first time. Leave them aloneto do their job. Ditto other kinds of first responders.

There is no such thing as body armor with total protectionagainst weapons fire. Don’t confuse what the shooter wore.

5 I am Alister William Macintyre, located in Evansville Indiana. I have a hobby interest in how humanitycan do a better job mitigating various disasters and conflicts. My attempt to grapple with incidents oftenstarts with understanding what happened, before it is reasonable to conclude where there is room forimprovement.6 Reddit page Twohttp://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wvb5e/comprehensive_timeline_part_2_aurora_massacre/7 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21119561/media-relates-horror-aurora-movie-theater-slaughter?source=pkg8 http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/181818/7-tips-for-covering-the-colorado-theater-shooting/http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/99574/tips-for-covering-mass-shootings/


10 “Joker” in Theater shooting and Apartment bombing; shooting at Sikh temple; apparent copy cats.Then Elementary school in CT.

Killers leave a long trail of clues as they plan their actions. Donot fall into trap of stereotypes.

Many perpetrators are in it for the glory. Do not glorify this guy,by using his name all over the place.

Many NGOs have an agenda, which distorts the truth. Seekproof of various claims.

Some numbers are fluctuating.70-71 people got hurt, most by bullets, a few in the stampeded exit;10 people dead in theater 9, when first responders arrived,2 died after arriving at hospitals;26 still in hospitals;7-11 in critical condition;70 people had loved ones not yet located, in the immediateaftermath.142 legal charges against the villain, in the upcoming court case.3 gag orders, and counting.4 copy cats, and counting.

Ages of the 12 dead: 6 18 23 24 24 26 27 27 27 29 32 51.3 of the dead were in the military.

Hospital Victims Critical ReleasedChildren's 6 1 3Swedish 4 0 2University 23 7 12Aurora Med 18 2 12Denver Health 7 0 5Parker 2 0 2source 60 10 36

The injured were treated at Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, The Medical Center of Aurora, Parker Adventist Hospital, Rose Medical Center, Swedish Hospital, University Hospital,



and a makeshift hospital set up at the scene of the attack.

This shooting was at a theatre showing the latest Batman movie,Dark Knight Rises.9 The FBI reported at 6 am, that the shooter hadan assault rifle, two handguns, and teargas, when apprehended.10 Afourth weapon was found inside theater 9. This clarifies some info,such as teargas, since witness victims had different guesses at whatthe villain had fired into the theater, in addition to the bullets.

Police say he legally purchased the guns, ammo, and costume.However, he did not have a permit for concealed weapons.11

Here is Huffington Post showing how the news about the eventspread through the media.12

Some social media discussed the appropriateness of some familiesbringing extremely young children to this kind of violent movie. ButBatman is a comic book superhero. It is like saying children shouldnot go to see Harry Potter because of the dark themes.

A performance started midnight July 19-20 in theater 9, with the maintheater mass murder confrontation occurring just after midnight.

Other incidents, and threads, include: The ambush at the apartment, using loud music to try to invite

someone to push in to complain, then trigger explosives andincendiaries of sufficient magnitude that all occupants of a 5apartment building cluster could have died.

How theater back exit was arranged so the villain could get inthere, to do his thing, and where was cinema security when thishappened?

There’s the volume of ammunition far in excess of what wasneeded at that one theater, prompting suspicion that had the

9 http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises10 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wvb5e/comprehensive_timeline_part_2_aurora_massacre/11 http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/aurora-shooting-twitter-batman_n_1688821.html?1342788992&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008



police not apprehended him at his car, he might have had moretargets planned.

More might have been hurt in that theater had one of his gunsnot jammed.

There’s info coming out about people encountering both hisweirdness before his public events, and him behaving in anormal sane manner.

The villain was seeing a University of Colorado psychiatrist, towhom he sent a package, containing a notebook, with infoabout his plans. Fox news claims the University sat on thenotebook, unopened for a week, and had they opened itpromptly, this tragedy may have been avoided. That notebookis now in the hands of the authorities. The shooter’s defenseteam claims this is covered by doctor-patient confidentiality, soa judge will have to rule on that.

A gunman entered by the back exit, which may have been proppedunlocked in advance for him. He was heavily armed, and withprotective gear for a gunfight, but surrendered peacefully to the policeafterwards, beside his car,13 which was parked in the back of thetheatre. He told them about explosives at his apartment, soimmediately there were two crime scenes.

1. The Cinema where he shot 71 people, 12 dead, 59 wounded.Most of the carnage was in one theater 9, where people werewatching the Batman movie. At least 1 person injured inadjacent theater 8, due to bullets going thru the wall. Hestarted the engagement with two gas canisters which filledtheater 9 with smoke, making it difficult to see, or breathe.People in theater 16 heard the noise of the canisters.

2. His apartment with trip wires and all kinds of booby traps. Theimmediate area was evacuated, including 5 buildings. Thepolice got the explosives and incendiary devices removedSaturday July 21, and disposed of, so they could search hisapartment for any evidence that could explain his extraordinaryactions.

The police say they were on scene within a minute and a half ofreaching 911 calls, but they don’t know what hassle anyone had

13 His car was a white Hyundai.



reaching 911 in the first place. We can be thankful we are at a stagein technology where so many people have cell phones, to call 911.

In addition to the physically killed and wounded, there is trauma,especially for children survivors who were in the theater.

There are tales of heroism, where people placed their bodies onothers, to shield them.

Since many people were in costumes, celebrating the movie, in aparty atmosphere, the villain’s costume was not immediately seen asa threat. Some thought he was part of the show, until the shootingbegan.

US coverage discrepancyUS News and World Report has observed that the shooting at theSikh Temple is not getting the same level of news media attention asthe shooting at the Aurora Cinema.14 I also observe that the bombingattempt at the University of Colorado Apartments is getting even lessnews media attention. We can speculate how come, but not reallyknow for sure.

There are judge gag orders, and HIPAA privacy constraints withthe Aurora incidents, which have less applicability with the Sikhincident, but tend to increase journalist interest and speculation.

The Aurora shooting killed more, wounded more, is more weird,compared to other events in our news. As time goes on, andwe have similar events, with less victims, such events seemless spectacular, and less worthy of media attention, beyond afew articles.15

It is unfortunate, but the attack on the Sikh Temple is not thatunusual. Sikh get attacked all the time by idiots in the hatecommunity, and idiots in general.

Muslim houses of worship are frequently attacked in the USA.16

Many more aspects of the Sikh story are embarrassing towestern society, than aspects of the Aurora incidents. With

14 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/08/08/is-the-media-undercovering-the-wisconsin-sikh-temple-shooting15 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/08/naunihal-singh-on-the-oak-creek-massacre/16 http://www.alternet.org/8-attacks-houses-worship-11-days-whats-going?akid=9223.1085969.bN_D9e&rd=1&src=newsletter693814&t=14



Aurora it is easy to blame the University, and others, forirresponsibility in not doing a better job of protecting societyfrom this known menace. But with the Sikh shooter, his hatemongering has been with us for decades, and we have beenunable to cleanse our society of his kind. To talk about that, isto talk about our own failure.

This malaise of the west not being able to do a good job of removingthe hate mongering among us, also extends to the level ofgovernment often not considering it a high priority, and underminingthe efforts of people who think it ought to be a higher priority.17

Similarly, the US has suffered major damage in past attacks, wherepeople saw them coming, but their warnings were suppressed byhigher authorities. The Pearl Harbor attack in WW II was an opensecret in Japan in advance, with intelligence warnings delivered toUS authorities, who dismissed them as “science fiction.” Lots of dotswarned of the 9/11 attacks in advance, but top authorities gave lowpriority to dealing with that kind of threat. Is an EMP attack in ourfuture? Many warn of the risk, but that too is seen as low priority todefend against.

In my notes about the Economic melt down, I make the parallel of atrain wreck, where problems with the train infrastructure made itobvious to many that disaster was looming, but many moreauthorities did not want to talk about it, and fought back againstsafety concerns, trying to prevent the wreck.

The USNWR article speculates that Americans can relate to being ina movie theater, or in an apartment complex, but cannot relate tobeing in a house of worship. I do not buy that. Religion is a big partof American life that is poorly covered by the news media, partlybecause there is a wide spectrum of religious beliefs, and manyreligious believers who are easily offended by the most trivial ofmistakes when covering their religion.

17 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/dhs/#more-88622



Left-Right Wing trouble makersOn social media, there has been some debate whether most troublemakers are on the Left, the Right, or balanced. In many instances,we do not know enough about motivations to categorize them.

On Google Plus, I shared QUOTE18

Several people, on social media, claim that hatred from the left is just as severeand pervasive as trouble from the right. I would like to see some cases andstudies, since stories in the news, both left wing and right, in recent years seem tocontradict that notion.There is obviously right wing and left wing news media, whose stories and focusis selective, so does not seem reasonable that news media bias would explain whythere are massive stories about right win threats, and very little about left wingthreats.The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has done yeoman's work on trackingviolent groups, notes that "Currently, there are 1,018 known hate groupsoperating across the country, including neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists,neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, border vigilantes andothers. And their numbers are growing.19"From 1990 to 2009, START data base of terrorist attacks in America identified275 "homicide events'' that killed 520 people and were committed by right-wingideologues.

UNQUOTEWhen I visited the START data base,20 I found it to be Global, andvery restrictive on permission to copy or quote their data, so it wasimpractical to get at a good figure on volume of harm in various timeperiods caused by which end of the political spectrum.

It is possible for a person to hold both left and right wing philosophiesat the same time. For example, I believe in a strong nationaldefense, which requires a strong economy, and I believe that this is aright wing conservative value. I also believe that all persons shouldhave equal rights and protections, including a social safety net forwhen they are temporarily in trouble, and I believe that this is a leftwing liberal value.

There is a great deal of disagreement between people on whichgroups are terroristic vs. reasonable, and what it is they seek.There’s also a lot of labeling or stereotyping, where views and people

18 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/cwqsz2a2o9W19 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tirman/domestic-terrorism_b_1767433.html20 http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/



are called this or that, not by themselves, or their supporters, but bythose who hold very different views, and seek to underminecredibility.

Abortion clinics and doctors get attacked by people whobelieve abortion is murder. I believe these attacks on abortionare right wing, while the people, who favor a woman’s right to decide,that is left wing.

Animal rights to be protected, even if it means killing humans to doso … I believe they are hard left. Normal left are only interested inprotecting humans, and being civilized in treatment of theenvironment.

Anti-Capitalist, to the point of sabotaging many businesses, engagedin legal operations … I believe they are left wing. They do not seeminterested in working through the political system, to achieve theirgoals.

Anti-Government, claiming government lies, corruption, enemy ofpeople, we must fight back, etc. … I believe these are both right andleft wing groups, often seriously contaminated by conspiracy theories,disconnected from constitutional realities, with more on right than left.There are some which are neither right nor left, such as anarchists.

Anti-People, they attack people because of who they are, gender,gender-preference, race, religion, national origin, religious beliefs,etc. I believe this is right wing.

Aurora movie and bombs … I have not yet seen enough info toclassify the shooter as left wing or right wing. He may be mentallyinsane. Some people in social media are classifying him as left wing.

Black Separatists … it is not clear to me whether they are right orleft.

Border Vigilantists … I believe they are right wing.



Central defining: people beliefs are neither right nor left wing.Many, but not all, of the following philosophies, may be found in thecenter: intellectuals; libertarians; progressives.

Conspiracy Theorists can be found on both left and right wings.We live in a complex world, where there are often no simpleexplanations, but some people expect and demand simplicity, andwhen they cannot get it, they speculate and invent bogusexplanations, then try to find evidence to support them, rejectingcontrary evidence. Many of these theories blame some group ofpeople allegedly with evil intentions, for placing all of us at risk.Some conspiracy stories have roots in state sponsored propaganda.

Eco or Environmental Terrorists … I believe they are left wing.They are dedicated to protecting the Environment against Humans,by any means possible, not willing to stop when they lose battles inthe court system, and with legislatures.

Gifford shooting … I have not followed this close enough to knowthe guy’s motives. Some people in social media are classifying himas left wing.

Klansmen … I believe they are right wing.

Labor Unions … I believe they are left wing.

Left Wing defining:21 They seek social change to bring ourcivilization closer to the ideals of all humans being treated equally,having equal rights and opportunities. They often identify segmentsof society allegedly harmed by inequality, and seek justice for them.

Many, but not all, of the following philosophies, are found on the leftwing: communists; intellectuals; liberals; socialists. Thesephilosophies are not necessarily threats to our society, so long as theproponents do not interfere with other people in society having thefreedom to hold different beliefs.

21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics



Left Wing terrorist defining: those with these beliefs, whofeel they have a personal duty to kill off alleged oppressors of thepeople, or destroy their institutions, or ability to continue theoppression. They are not interested in working within constitutionalgovernment to achieve their goals.

Militia groups … I believe they are right wing.

Muslim fundamentalist terrorists … I thought this is religiouslymotivated desire to kill off everyone who does not share their beliefs,which is extreme right wing, although some people in social mediadisagree with me, whether left or right applies. Also I have waveredon some definitions, when religious motivations apply to politicalspectrum.

Neo-Confederationists … I believe they are right wing. They wantto bring back ideals of the South which lost the war with the North.

Neo-Nazis … I believe they are right wing.

Occupy Wall Street … I believe they are left wing. They wish toreturn America to a reality of maybe the end of the 20th century, afterCivil Rights Legislation, but before Citizen’s United and our move inthe apparent direction of a Fascist state. This movement is worldwide, with the motives and desires of groups in different nationsmerely inspired by each other, and similar movements. Manyparticipants are not interested in working through our constitutionalsystem to achieve their goals.

Oklahoma City bombing22 … I thought this was religiouslymotivated right wing. It was held, April 19, 1995 on anniversary of theend of Waco Texas Siege, and partly because of Ruby Ridge?

Pedophiles … I think they are hard left, believing that their behaviorshould be legalized.

Racist skinheads … I believe they are right wing.

22 http://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffterrorism7.htm



Right Wing defining:23 people who do not believe that all menand women were created equal, they disagree that our society shouldgrant them equal rights and responsibilities, equal opportunities.Rather, they believe that some people are the chosen by God to bethe rulers over the inferior people, and that they are part of those whowere chosen. Some, on the right wing, believe that the inferior onescan raise themselves up into the chosen ones, through specific lifestyle choices. Some, on the right wing, believe that the inferiorpeople are condemned to be forever part of the inferior ones.

Many, but not all, of the following philosophies, are found on the rightwing: aristocrats; conservatives; fascists; nazis; religiousfundamentalists. These philosophies are not necessarily threats toour society, so long as the proponents do not interfere with otherpeople in society having the freedom to hold different beliefs.

Right Wing terrorist defining: those with these beliefs, whofeel they have a personal duty to kill off some of the inferior people,and perhaps some of their protectors, or just maybe suppress thoseinferior people’s abilities to participate in the society of equality thatthe right wing is opposed to.

Roswell New Mexico was the site in 1947 of something crashing. Ibelieve it was part of a spy system used against the Soviet Union,which had to be kept classified during the Cold War, so there werelayers of cover stories including the UFO aliens. Many people todaybelieve those cover stories, and believe the government has files onthose aliens, which the people have a right to see. Some of thosepeople are going to extreme measures to try to locate those files.

Ruby Ridge24 – The Weaver family won a land dispute with aneighbor, who made all kinds of false allegations against theWeavers, leading to investigations by many government agencies.There’s lots of conflicting stories regarding an alleged conspiracyagainst the Weavers by what may have just been incompetence inthe judicial system. They also got into a dispute with local23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge



government authority, were alleged to have made what sounded likethreats against the government, which on later investigation weredetermined to have not come from them, so federal SWAT went in, inAugust 1992, without adequately identifying themselves, leading to agun battle, where the authorities used excessive force.

After surviving members of the family were taken into custody, therewas a court case, where the jury found that the family was innocent ofthe original charges, with respect to all agencies and officers ofgovernment involved, all of which had exceeded their authority.Surviving Weavers brought a wrongful death suit against the federalpolice. The federal government settled the case. The public furor,over all this, undermined respect for law enforcement.

While the situation has been resolved legally, and in reforms ofgovernment police standards, this event continues to be a causecélèbre among many right-wing anti-government movements.

Sharia Law – There are religious immigrants to secular nations, whohave trouble assimilating. Some of this trouble is thanks to right wingintolerance where they have arrived, and some is thanks to theimmigrants wanting to keep their right wing culture, not understandingor interested in the concept of choosing a different nation’s values.Some of this failed assimilation, from Muslim background, wantSharia Law imposed in their new nations, instead of letting thosenations continue with their secular constitutions. Some of theintolerance movements are using this negative reality, as an excuseto seek to ban any freedom for the immigrant religious worship.

Sikh temple shooting … It is pretty clear to me that this is rightwing.

Tea Party … I believe they are right wing. They wish to returnAmerica to a reality of maybe around the end of the 19th century,when only white straight men had rights.

Unibomber … I thought he was mentally ill, thanks to CIAmachinations, but some people in social media are classifying him ashard left. He was opposed to certain industries, because he thought



they were bad for America, which is a left wing trait. His behavior waslike that of those who kill abortion doctors, an activity I think of asright wing.

Waco Texas Siege25 was a confrontation between federal policeand a religious group, Feb 28 to April 19 in 1993, which ended intragedy. The event is often cited by anti-government groups as acause célèbre reason to fight the government. The general publicgenerally believes there was government misconduct in the case,although disagreement over all that was done wrong.

There are many allegations and stories, complicated by the death ofmost everyone inside the religious compound, so their side isunheard, because escapees were being arrested, charged withheinous crimes. Some were convicted, some found innocent by jury.Most appealed. Sentences were reduced, because the prosecutionhad failed to prove that these survivors had used the most seriousweapons.

The religious group had been accused of various cult-like behaviors,including child abuse. Shortly before the federal police surroundedthe place, the state of Texas child welfare agency had done athorough investigation, including personnel on site visitation, andconcluded that the accusations were unfounded. However, thefederal government had no respect for the state of Texas, anddecided the religious group was evil criminal, just because theaccusers said so.

Thanks to separation of church and state, no one in the federal policewas able to communicate in a meaningful way with the religiousgroup, and they were not interested in getting help from any otherreligious group, for the negotiations.

In addition to the notion that this was a religious cult, allegedlysexually abusing children, the group had stockpiled a mixture ofweapons, where the federals believed some of them were illegal. Sothe reasons for the attack on the compound were multi-faceted.

25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege



White Nationalists … I believe they are right wing.

Corrections ColoradoThis chapter is for sharing info, with respect to the Aurora incidents,where we find out that something reported earlier may not have beencorrect, and needs clarification, or where different sources haveconflicting spins on events. Some of these conflicts may have startedelsewhere in my notes, but are now being consolidated in one place.

There are also disputes over a bigger picture in America, regardingstatistics, gun violence, mental illness. I have later chaptersaddressing that.

Bombs WhereWitnesses in theater 9 and 16 heard the gas canisters, had lots ofspeculation what was going on.Shooter told police he was the “joker” had left bombs at his Apt.Police did not know if he was being truthful. Suspects often lie.Due Diligence required they check for bombs many places.

Disaster Worst EverWe have seen with humanitarian disasters in recent years, where theUN and NGOs often declare that this latest disaster is the worst ever.To have dozens of disasters in the same year, each of which is theworst ever, is statistically unlikely, unless humans are progressivelybeing more and more stupid., or worst fears are valid about: rapidglobal warming; fracking conspiracy theories (cause earthquakes);etc.

It sounds like a PR scam to try to raise more donations, using boilerplate standard phraseology, which can backfire and underminedonations. In my studies, I have determined that human policymakers and our society is in fact collectively getting progressivelymore and more stupid, and some of the disasters, but not all of them,are in fact the worst ever in history, for reasons I have explained inpast essays. Yes, weather phenomena that is pretty much the sameas 100 years ago, is in fact doing astronomically more financialdamage, because mankind is building more and more expensivestructures, which are vulnerable to predictable natural disasters.



Many news media accounts, of the Colorado incident, have claimedthat this is the worst mass shooting in American history. I have foundmany which I consider to be worse, such as Wounded Knee, where150-300 men women and children were killed by the US 7th cavalry,whose indiscriminate fire also killed 39 of their own troopers. Many ofthe wounded died later, adding to the death toll.

Gag OrdersWhen the Judge ordered University of Colorado not to release to thenews media, any info about the mass murderer, some news medialabeled this as gag order # 3, # 2, # 1. In my time line, I label what Iconsider to be the sequential # of gag orders, which have come out.

Gas CanistersI have heard multiple TV stories, and read newspaper stories,including heard survivor testimony quoted. There are differentversions of how many canisters there were, at the movie theater, andwhat they contained.

GunsSee “Corrections Wisconsin” after “Corrections Colorado.”

Mental IllVarious attributes of the culprit are described by different observersas evidence of sanity, and of being mentally ill. The same attributes,but opposite conclusions. In that section, I share what I think isevidence of mental problems, evidence of sanity, or neither.

Misquoted?News media had reached shooter’s family by phone, then postedstories contrary to what shooter’s family claim in press release.

Rapid fire, many round clipsI have seen in TV news discussions, in news stories, and othersources, two different spins on weapons legality:

It was illegal for the Colorado shooter to have a semi-automaticweapon with that many rounds of ammunition before having toreload.

There is nothing illegal about a private individual having such aweapon system.



Tea PartyABC News has apologized for saying the Colorado shooter was amember of the Tea Party, before there is any evidence to indicatewhether or not that is true.26 There is another unrelated person bythe same name, who is a member of the Tea Party.

Theater Exit DoorsWe now believe that the culprit purchased a ticket to the Batmanmovie, then before it started showing, propped open the rear exitdoor, went to his car, dressed up, armed up, and returned thru thatdoor. Initial TV interviews of survivors were asking for descriptions ofthe person seen fixing the door, on the theory that the act of fixing thedoor was by a person other than the gunman.

A metal detector at entrance to theater would not have preventedthis massacre, and would increase cost to theater to have peoplewho know how to operate it properly.27 What might have mitigated itwould have been security cameras pointed at emergency exit doors,with an internal alarm if propped open an unusual time period, andsee a gunman going back in there.

UC Psychiatrist PackageFox News will not retract its story that the package sent by thegunman to University of Colorado professor, who is the psychiatristhe had been seeing there28, went unopened for days, after beingreceived July-12. Due to the Judge’s gag orders, and other reasons,we won’t know for a while:

Prior relationship between the recipient of the package, and thestudent who sent it.

Precisely what triggered the psychiatrist concerns that led herto notify the University’s BETA team, that there was a mentalproblem with this student.29

The precise contents of the package. Whether the info in the package was enough to stop the

shooting, had it been acted on promptly.

26 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21168369/abc-news-owns-its-reporting-mistakes-wake-aurora?source=pkg27 http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21157897/editorial-tickets-popcorn-metal-detector28 Also see “Psychiatric Concerns” chapter.29 See “Psychiatric Concerns” chapter.



Exactly when the package was delivered to the University. When the package was opened. What was done about the info found inside.

The Judge’s gag order has led to changes in the public records aboutthe shooter seeing a psychiatrist.30

Corrections & Contradictions WisconsinThis chapter is for sharing info, with respect to the attack(s) on theSikh Temple, where we find out that something reported earlier maynot have been correct, and needs clarification, or where differentsources have conflicting spins on events. Some of these conflictsmay be multiple places in my notes, being fixed, as I locate them.

Information is coming out about the shooter’s involvement in Hate inAmerica, which deserves its own chapter section. I plan to start onenear the sections on Statistics, Gun Violence, and Mentally Ill.Initially that kind of info is scattered in multiple areas of these notes.

Big PictureThe local police chief said, when interviewed by Anderson Cooper onCNN,31 that the police are unaware of any prior trouble vs. the Sikhcommunity. But I saw interviews on CNN, MSNBC, and other newssources, with relatives of the slain, Sikh elected to government, andthe larger Sikh community,32 who collectively spoke of many “softattacks” and other expressions of racial & ethnic hatred, on apparentimmigrants, which have significantly increased since 9/11, including:

Broken Windows; Discrimination; Random Violence; Robberies and stick-ups; Temple apparently under surveillance by strange person(s); Temple receiving strange phone calls; Ugly language and giving the finger.

30 http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/280656/222/Public-court-record-on-theater-shooting-altered31 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/06/tonight-on-ac360-tragedy-in-the-sikh-community/32 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sikh-temple-reaction-20120807,0,4328877.story



Sikh rights groups have reported a rise in bias attacks since the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Washington-based Sikh Coalition33

has reported more than 700 incidents in the U.S. since 9/11, whichadvocates blame on anti-Islamic sentiment. Sikhs don't practice thesame religion as Muslims, but their long beards and turbans oftencause them to be mistaken for Muslims, advocates say.34

The same kind of thing has been happening in Britain since the 2007terrorist attacks.35

What we are learning about the shooter, he was not targeting Jews,Muslims, Sikhs, or any other group in particular, just any non-whitesand anyone who did not share his extremist views. He was a mini-celebrity in the hate world, using music propaganda to recruitchildren, a behavior as repulsive as Islamism fundamentalists whoturn children into suicide bombers, convincing them they willmagically survive the blast. These people are as unwanted in oursociety as pedophiles.

Maybe the FBI needs to get copies of those media interviews, get asurvey or poll of the community … how many have personallyexperienced or witnessed any of this stuff?

GunsRight after the shooting at the Sikh Temple, with 7 dead, including thegunman, and 3 critically wounded, including a police officer, 2 gunswere found, and presumed to be the gunman’s. By end of day, 1 ofthe guns identified as belonging to the police officer who was criticallywounded. Only one belonged to the shooter.

Hate GroupsThe hate movement exists in the USA in many forms. It is like acancer eating at the heart of America. Activist groups, and lawenforcement, have been doing a good job of breaking their

33 http://www.sikhcoalition.org/34http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/a-tragic-history-of-hate-crimes-against-sikhs-in-t

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/05/13130110-gunman-opens-fire-at-sikh-temple-in-wisconsin-7-dead?lite35 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/britain-sikhs-idINL6E8J6D3E20120806



organizations, but the rank and file are still eager to do mischief, andincrease their numbers of warriors. We need improved methods offighting the negative messages of hate.

What is coming out about the shooter at the Sikh Temple is areminder that while we have won many wars to push back the cancer,the war is far from over.

SuicideInitial stories were that the gunman refused to surrender to police,shot at police officers, who shot back, and he died due to the policeshooting back at him.

Two guns were found at the scene. Within a day, they had beenidentified as the gun purchased legally a week earlier by the villain,and gun used by the wounded police officer and dropped by him,when he dropped, due to his wounds.

Within a few days, the gunman’s dead body had been autopsied, andthe bullet that killed him, traced to his own gun. He had shot himselfdead, to avoid being taken by the police.36

TattoosI have seen conflicting stories, about when he got the tattoos.

According to a former friend of the shooter, who knew him in thearmy, interviewed on CNN’s Piers Morgan, he got the tattoos after heleft the army. Another person who knew him in the army, talks abouttattoos he had before he left the army.

Victims FundsThe FBI warns that with any major event in the news, there arealways a flood of fraudulent outfits claiming to be victims funds, soany donors should do the usual due diligence.37

36 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-gunman-20120808,0,6572009.story37 Use caution when selecting where to make donations.http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149047/experts-use-caution-when-making-donations-shooting-victims?source=pkghttp://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21195545/question-arise-over-some-aurora-theater-shooting-victim?source=pkg



Aurora Victims The Aurora Victim Relief Fund thru Giving First Org, with

Community First Foundation.38 These links have beenmentioned by multiple news media in the Denver area.39

List of Nonprofits40 assisting victims of the Aurora movietheater tragedy.41

Go to any Wells Fargo Bank and request the "Donation Accountfor Ashley and Veronica Moser". This is for the family of the 6year old victim who died, and also pregnant woman who had amiscarriage due to the trauma.42

KDVR says QUOTE:43

Anyone wanting to donate to victims of the Aurora theatershooting are being urged to call 303-739-6346.

UNQUOTE

According to the Denver Post, QUOTE:Citing a judge's order restricting pre-trial publicity in the Aurorashooting case, a spokeswoman for the Colorado AttorneyGeneral's office declined to provide tips on avoiding scamsconnected to the shootings. Rather, she referenced warningsissued by the AG's office during the wildfires.

UNQUOTE44

38 https://www.givingfirst.org/ To make a donation, we can send a check to:

Community First Foundation6870 W. 52nd Avenue, Suite 103Arvada, Colorado 80002

39 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21177593/ways-donate-aurora-theater-shooting-victimshttp://denver.cbslocal.com/auroravictimrelieffund/40 https://givingfirst.org/index.php?section=content&action=dynamic&cmsID=3641 http://communityfirstfoundation.org/news_press_releases.cfm?pressid=7642 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21182960/wounded-mother-6-year-old-theater-victim-suffers?source=pkg43 http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/44 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149047/experts-use-caution-when-making-donations-shooting-victims?source=pkg



Aug 3, 2012 I read in USA Today, page 3A, that the survivors willface a lifetime of medical costs.45

It can cost $56,000.00 in hospital costs to care for a gunshotvictim for 4 to 7 days.

Inpatient rehabilitation can cost $240,000.00 a year. Seeing a psychiatrist can cost $400.00 an hour. Medications can average $100.00 a month. Depending on severity of wounds, victims may not be able to

hold down a good paying job. Any person having trouble paying the medical expenses, can

expect to have their credit ruined, which can get in the way ofbuying a car, or renting an apartment.

Once the hype dies down, people will forget these victims need help.

Sikh VictimsThe news media46 has been telling us there is a fund to help thevictims with a name like “We are (all) Sikh”https://www.wepay.com/donations/wearesikhswww.wearesikhs.comSee links from the Sikh Coalition.47

But also see links to Al Mac G+ postings, near very end of thesenotes, where a very different message was communicated from thetemple which was attacked, through the city government.

FAQ BackgroundThere are some obvious questions. Some answers deserve theirown chapters.

Why combine eventsThese notes have info on:

Aurora Colorado recent student of mental health who acted likea mental health patient doing the Batman “Joker”’s jokes with a

45 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-02/colorado-shooting-victims-medical-bills/56723528/1?csp=34news46 http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/165156636.html#!page=1&pageSize=10&sort=newestfirst47 http://www.sikhcoalition.org/



theater mass shooting and attempt to kill the occupants of 5apartment buildings with fire and explosions.

Wisconsin Sikh temple victimized by a mass shooter. Other mass shootings.

Why combine events in one set of notes? What do they have incommon?

Answer: I was studying one, when another happened. They may turnout to have nothing in common, but initially it was convenient toconsolidate my notes. There are many people speculating that thereare common causes to mass shootings. I know of several possiblecauses. I do not yet know which of them are responsible in each ofthese incidents. We may never know.

Some of the possible reasons, from the historical record, that I amaware of, for mass killings, and attempted mass killings in the USA:

Hate criminals, people who hate others because of their race,religion, life style, gender, gender preference. Examples: KluKlux Klan; Whites who organized massacres of AmericanIndians.

Crimes of passion, where someone kills their whole family,people they supposedly were having a romantic relationshipwith.

Going Postal, where someone visits a work site, where theyhave a serious anger management crisis.

Serial criminals, who kill anyone who can identify them. Ideology, people we label as terrorists, revolutionaries,

anarchists, etc. who want a very different civilization than whatthey now experience, or think we have, and they are willing tokill to try to work towards their goals. Examples: Unibomber;recent Norway; OK City.

It was war time, either in reality, or in the mind of the attacker. Crime in progress, interrupted by the police, the criminals do

not want to give up, a shoot-out ensues. Police raid on suspected criminal hide out, but they got the

wrong address, fail to make it obvious to the home dwellers thatthey are in fact the police conducting lawful actions, shoot-out



ensues with home dwellers who mis-identify the police as homeinvaders.

The shooter really is mentally ill at the time of the shooting.

Al, why are you studying this?

Short Answer: Partly sheer curiosity.

Medium: I now have a hobby of studying disasters, to try to figure outhow we humans can do a better job of mitigating risk of disaster, anda better job of responding when one occurs.

Late in 2009 I became semi-retired. Before my semi-retirement I wasa work-aholic, without the leisure time nor stamina to educate myselfabout events behind the headlines, with which I was often intenselycurious. Now I do have that time and stamina, but not enough toreturn to the kind of hours I was working before.

Since the Haiti Jan-2012 quake, I became consumed helping thehelpers, via Linked In HEDR group (Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief),and other volunteer think tanks. Y"all can locate most of my Haiti(and other) Disaster Research Notes:Linked In (see box net files), Facebook, and Google Plus links in myposts, Google Drive Document Collections, Haiti Rewired, RebuildHaiti Better, Haiti+ Disaster Recovery Research Prizm and Scribd

Here is reason for the above research sharing:

The big international NGOs have astronomical gaps between whatthey trying to do, and what they actually are able to accomplish.There are efforts to fill those gaps by thousands of mom+pop NGOs,some of them grass roots in Haiti, some of them small groups fromnations all over our world.These are people who are good with their hands, or with medicine, ora host of other things, but they are not good at figuring out all theyneed to know to make a go of it. They have tons of questions.Well I am an answer man, I find out for them, as a pro bonoresearcher. Many of these groups are asking variations on the samequestions. So I package the answers in my research notes, sharewith all the mom+pop groups, and potential new volunteers.



But the events in these notes, are not for the above reasons.

Other events appear in the news, in which I have a similar hunger tofigure out what happened, and whether we as a civilization can learnfrom some disasters, to do a better job of mitigating the next timesomething similar happens.

There are apparently scores of other people accused of the samekind of stuff as Sandusky, at hundreds of institutions like PSU andSecond Mile, which seem to be engaged in some kind of cover-upwhere they get the perpetrator to say he won’t do it any more atTHEIR institution, but then they do nothing to warn the largercommunity. Is this an aberration or an epidemic? Can we fix theseaccessories without a burden of regulation imposed on people andinstitutions which have done nothing wrong?

As I dig into what happened in various disasters, before addressingwhat needs to be done to mitigate, I find similar patterns of humannegligence contributing to the severity of the disasters, and amountain of other people making suggestions what needs to be done,where their suggestions, if they had been implemented in advance,would have done nothing to avert the disaster, and may have made itworse. I wonder how often that was in fact the case with pastdisasters I did not have the leisure time to educate myself agout.

Time ZonesMost of the USA is on Daylight savings time (from Spring to Autumn),one hour later than Standard Time. The time notation is *ST forstandard time and *DT for daylight savings time.

Haiti is Atlantic Time = same as EST - Eastern Standard Time. Sikh Temple in Wisconsin is CST = Central Standard Time, or

CDT (add an hour) in the summer … If you are outside theUSA, use the notation UTC/GMT – 6 hours (to get CST) then +1 hour (for CDT).

Aurora Colorado is MST = Mountain Standard Time, or MDT inthe summer.

India does not use daylight savings. India standard time isUTC/GMT = 5 1/2 hours



The shooting started 10 am CDT on Sunday. A press conference isscheduled by the local authorities at 10 am CDT Monday Aug-6, atthe Oak Creek police HQ, which I expect will be carried live by mostUS news media. For viewers in Punjab India, if my date math iscorrect, this would be 6.30 pm. Or, if you do not use am pm system,18.30 hours, India Time. I will post link(s) to this conference on myG+ stream, once I have it.48

9 am MDT = 10 am CDT = 11 am EDT = 18.30 hours in India

Sikh CelebrationI have heard people on TV pronouncing Sikh like: SEEK; SICK. I donot know which is correct.

The Sikh were gathering at their temple for a celebration Aug-5, whena non-Sikh arrived, started shooting, leaving 7 dead and 3 criticallywounded. Is this religious event something which is understandableto non-Sikh?

Also see links to the community near the end of this document.

See footnotes for introductions to the Sikh religion for those of us whomay be a bit ignorant about it.49 Here is the website for the Sikhtemple of Wisconsin.50 Some of their links appear to be broken,which may be related to the recent attack. They started with 20-25families, grew to a congregation of 300-450 people, bought theacreage where their beautiful temple now stands, and was completedin 2007.

48 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts49 Sikh Religion, an introduction.http://www.sikhs.org/summary.htmhttp://www.sikhs.org/ya2.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhismhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/08/the_sikh_shooting_in_wisconsin_reminds_me_of_the_faith_s_great_lessons_.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/5-things-you-should-know-about-sikhism_n_1744657.html?utm_hp_ref=religion50 http://www.sikhtempleofwisconsin.com/location.html



BBC collection of images associated with this attack, and other recentnews events.51

The police will not identify the victims, to the public, until their familieshave been notified. If you think your friend or relative may be amongthe dead or injured 888-298-1964 is phone # to be used ONLY bypeople who think they may have a friend or relative among thewounded or dead, to get clarification on that.

Some people, on Wikipedia, are making an effort to improve thequality of the info there, regarding the Sikh religion.52 There are manysuch groups, with similar worthwhile goals.

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion born over 500 years ago in India. Itsplit off from the Hindu religion, rejecting the caste system.Officially,53 this is what they stand for:

They believe in equality for all humans. They reject discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, race,

religion, or gender. They practice social reform through the pursuit of justice for all

human beings. They believe in hard work. Wearing long hair is a way to respect God.

No Nos for Sikhs include: Thou shalt not cut thy hair. Thou shalt not get intoxicated. No adultery. Spouses must be physically and mentally faithful

to one another. Honor the family. Do not be a loner. No sacrifice of animals or humans.

51 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-1914327452 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sikhism53 I have read stories, which may have been written by people with an agenda, about alleged Sikh militantsengaged in some kind of holy war with other religions in Asia, where apparently it is often acceptablepractice to fire bomb houses of worship, if the people there are practicing the wrong religion.When people of ANY religion are associated with SOME crime, their religion may in fact have nothing todo with why they did something.



Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world with a population ofupwards of 30 million worldwide.54 Unlike many other religions, Sikhsdo not seek out converts, so they have made less enemies thanreligions which attempt missionary work, where they are oftenunwelcome.

Statements by politicians and diplomats have expressed sorrow forthe victims, mentioned that Sikhs are a peaceful religion who haveenriched American culture, and other places to which they havesettled.

There are an estimated ¼ to ½ million members of the Sikh religionin the USA. Maybe 4/5 of Sikhs live in Punjab, which is a northernstate of India. Here are statistics on Sikhs by country,55 and here isWikipedia on the Sikh Diaspora.56

Places with significant Sikh populations, include:(percentage reflects overall proportion of all Sikh in the world)

India 90% Western Europe 3% Canada 2% USA 1% Malaysia 0.4%

Traditionally there is no clergy, but priests have developed over time.

Men and women usually separate themselves during religiousservices.

The women wear colorful clothing.

For you religious ignoramuses out there, if you see a woman coveredin clothing, if it is all black she may be a Muslim, or a woman inmourning, regardless of religion. If her clothing is brightly colored,she may be a Sikh, or just a woman who likes the fashion. In oursecular society, a woman’s choice of clothing is usually her choice,

54 I have seen news media accounts in the USA with figures from 20 million upwards. I suspect non-Sikhsin general, really do not know.55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_by_country56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_diaspora



her religious beliefs, not dictated by any oppressor. The oppressorsin USA are people with stereotypes, who hate based on religion.

Both men and women wear their hair long.The men both on top of their heads, with turbans, and they arebearded. The women are not bearded, and do not always cover theirlong hair.

Anti-Muslim Idiots and HatersPeople who hate, because of religion and color of skin, they often areincapable of distinguishing between different races, religions, andoften they do not care to distinguish, they just hate a spectrum.

9/11, and other terrorist attacks, led to an increase in ignorant racismwhich was already a big problem in the west.57 In a sense, this is partof the terrorists winning the battle of destroying us.

When people immigrate to the USA, and other nations, there can bea problem of assimilation, merging with the new culture. It goes bothways. There are problems for some immigrants, and there can alsobe anti-immigrant sentiment by people whose ancestors immigrated along time ago.

Copy CatsDetails given below key list, by date of threat discovery.

Arizona 7-20 9-27 California 7-21 Florida 7-31 9-5 Kent State 7-29 Kentucky 7-27 Los Angeles 7-21 Maine 7-22 Maryland “joker” death threats and heavily armed 7-27 New York City 7-30 Twitter 7-29 7-30 USA movie theater chains 8-17 8-19 West Virginia 7-27

57 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/08/sikhs-targeted-anti-muslim-extremists?newsfeed=true



Fri 7-20 A drunk’s actions looked like a copy cat, in Arizona.58 This isone of the stupid ones.

Sat 7-21 A suspected copy cat is arrested in Los Angeles.59 This isone of the stupid ones.

Sun 7-22 A copy cat is arrested in Maine, in time to avert anothercrisis.60 This is one of the dangerous ones.

Fri 7-27 A suspected copy cat is taken into custody in Maryland.61 Hehad a huge arsenal of semi automatic weapons, he says he was a“joker,” he was wearing a T-shirt saying “Guns don’t kill people, I do,”and he made specific threats. A onetime supervisor of Prescott toldpolice that Prescott had referred to himself as "a joker" in telephonecalls in which he threatened to shoot up a former workplace inMaryland. This is one of the dangerous ones. However, due to lackof relevant laws in that state, he faces only a charge of phonemisdemeanor.62

Fri 7-27 In Martinsburg, West Virginia, a man was arrested, after hethreatened to blow up the local city offices of the state agency,Department of Health and Human Resources, saying he would do itlike the attack in Aurora Colorado.63

Fri 7-27 A student at U of Kentucky, Lexington, in a dispute with theUniversity, sent an e-mail which included a picture of the Joker fromthe movie. This was perceived to be a terroristic threat, so he was

58 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21168563/colorado-copycats-seek-attention-and-payback-experts-say?source=pkg59 http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Norwalk-Movie-Theater-Threats-Colorado-Shooting-Arrested-Suspect-Clark-Tabor-163499426.html60 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21168563/colorado-copycats-seek-attention-and-payback-experts-say?source=pkg61 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21173558/md-man-arrested-workplace-shooting-plot?source=pkgI also saw a story about this on CNN.62 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-charges-for-maryland-joker-20120801,0,3396191.story63 http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/582388/Local-man-charged-with-terrorist---.htmlhttp://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-martinsburg-man-charged-with-making-terrorist-threats-20120727,0,7927905.story



arrested. The student claims he had been using that picture as hisprofile picture since long before the shooting at Aurora.64

Sun 7-29 This may not be a copy cat, just an inspired to act, byrecent news. Police arrested a 19 year old Kent State student forsending a Tweet, threatening to shoot up the campus.65

Mon 7-30 A twitter user threatened a copy cat action at Mike Tyson’sshow in New York City, according to Fox and other News. The copsasked Twitter for the identity of this user, and Twitter refused.66 Thiscould be related to police demands which often seem lessreasonable. Daily News says police have now identified the personinvolved.67 This person claims to have a celebrity hit list, whichincludes Chris Brown, Justin Bieber and Wendy Williams.

Tues 7-31 Copycat arrested in Florida.68 This is one of the stupidones.

Fri 8-17 Bomb threat, to movie chain Columbus, Ga.-based CarmikeCinema movie chain, which has 236 theaters in 35 states, showingExpendables 2, leads to police bomb squads checking them out, allacross the USA.69 Most theaters are in business districts of somekind, leading to evacuation of the surrounding area, as a precaution.

64 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/steven-kennedy-joker-terrorist-threat-kentucky-aurora-_n_1710426.html65 http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_portage/kent-state-university-student-charged-with-inducing-panic-after-sending-threatening-tweet66 http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/07/nyc-cops-to-subpoena-twitter-over-threat-theater-massacre/67 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-twitter-id-user-threatened-kill-a-lot-people-mike-tyson-one-man-show-article-1.1130520https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nypd-identified-twitter-user-linked-colorado-copycat-threats-broadway-theater-article-1.1132136?localLinksEnabled=false68 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21207247/fla-man-accused-disturbance-at-batman-movie69 Expendables 2 bomb threat against 236 theaters in 35 stateshttp://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/13336641-bomb-threat-to-carmike-cinemas-chain-over-expendables-2-prompts-police-searches-nationwide?litehttp://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=269113http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-southeasternpa/Bomb-threats-force-evacuations-of-theaters-locally-across-US/-/121434/16176536/-/dmv3xoz/-/index.htmlhttp://starbeacon.com/local/x1685969127/Bomb-threat-results-in-search-at-mallhttp://www.wect.com/story/19304214/scene-cleared-after-officers-investigate-bomb-threathttp://yellowtape.blogs.starnewsonline.com/20249/theaters-checked-after-national-bomb-scare/http://www.kinston.com/news/havelock-84396-theater-threat.htmlhttp://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/17/bomb-threat-prompts-response-to-morris-theater/http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/west_central/bomb-threat-at-crawfordsville-theater



The anonymous threat came from a person claiming to be anemployee of a vendor which services the theaters.

If and when this person is caught, the financial penalties will beenormous … all those different cities emergency services will want tobe compensated for their expenses. The original Aurora attackconsumed 26% of the annual budget of the local police and firedepts. Ok, multiply that by hundreds of different cities.

Sun 8-19 Bomb threat, to Carmichael Theatre movie chain HQ,claiming bombs had been planted at nine of the movie theaters in thechain, across the USA. This leads to police bomb squads checkingthem out, and of course also evacuating surrounding businesses, asa precaution.70

Sep-5 A guy was dressed in the same getup as the Aurora shooter,at a Florida movie theater, when other people called the police. Heclaimed to be ignorant of the Aurora shooting.71

Thu Sep-27 A Phoenix filmmaker has been arrested for allegedlyvideotaping his nephew dressed in a sheet while pointing a fakegrenade launcher at passing cars, in an apparent terrorist hoax to testpolice-response time.72

Some details in the stories about the Carmike vs. Carmichael Theaterchains sound almost identical. I suspect they may be one and thesame chain, where each story has incomplete collection of facts.

Time Line AuroraAs we read thru radio calls with the first responders, it appears to melike they need rapid access to economical improved technology to be

70 Carmichael movie chain hit by bomb threatshttp://voicenews.com/articles/2012/08/19//news/doc502ea7aaedc4e340280405.txthttp://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=842&z=4871 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-arrested-wearing-joker-makeup-a-florida-theater-people-alarmed-article-1.1152653?localLinksEnabled=false72 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2012/09/27/phoenix-filmmaker-arrested-after-allegedly-staging-terrorist-hoax-to-test-police-response-time/http://abcnews.go.com/US/phoenix-filmmaker-arrested-allegedly-staging-terrorist-hoax-test/story?id=17328758#.UGRl703A88U



better able to more efficiently handle situations like this. I sharethoughts in a later chapter, what might do that job.

Timing = The USA is in the midst of a hostile electioncampaign, diametrically opposed to the kind of healing neededin Colorado.

January 2000, a Sikh Temple in San Francisco was the site of ashooting.73

In 2005, the villain’s psychiatrist, before he became her patient,was reprimanded for writing inappropriate prescriptions.74

Time Line – a few months in advance (+more Jan-10+) In four months before the shooting the culprit bought, over the

Internet:75

o 3,000+ rounds of ammunitions for the pistols,o 3,000+ rounds for the AR-15,o and 350 shells for the shotgun.o Police report that he got over 50 packages with his

purchases, delivered to his apartment, and also some tohis school address.

May 10, was his first gun purchase, according to ATFtestimony.76

May 22, he legally purchased his first gun, known to the newsmedia soon after the event, a Glock pistol, from a GanderMountain shop in Aurora.77

May 28, he legally purchased his second gun, known to thenews media soon after the event, a shotgun at a Bass ProShops in Denver.78

In late May or early June, his psychiatrist was so worried, thatshe took her concerns to University of Colorado’s (UC)Behavioral Evaluation and Threat Assessment (BETA) team.79

73 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_Center_of_San_Francisco_Bay_Area74 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0729/Holmes-psychiatrist-was-disciplined-by-Colorado-Medical-Board-video75 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/online-ammunition-sales-highlighted-by-aurora-shootings.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all76 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_2233186177 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes79 Also see “Psychiatric Concerns” chapter.



June 7, he both took his Oral Exam,80 and legally purchasedthe AR-15.81 Some sources now say that he did not do well onhis exam.

June 10, he dropped out of the University of Colorado.82

Because of this, the University of Colorado (UC) BehavioralEvaluation and Threat Assessment (BETA) team, decided hewas no longer under UC jurisdiction, so there was nothing theycould do about the psychiatrist concerns.83

June-11, Holmes told his psychiatrist that he fantasized aboutkilling "a lot of people," six weeks before he carried out hisfantasy, a source told The Denver Post.84

o This led her to notify the campus-wide threat-assessmentteam, which in turn led to suggest Holmes be placed onpsychiatric hold, which she decided not to do.

o The psychiatrist, Lynne Fenton, has not revealed to thepublic, or in trial testimony, what happened. Thus we donot know if any of this is true, and if there are truths, whatthe precise time line was.

June-11, Holmes also allegedly made some threats to someCU professor, according to highly redacted e-mails CU hasreleased to the news media.85

June 12, the University cancelled permission for him to be onthe property.

About one month in advance (+more Jan 10+) June 25, he tried to join a gun club, but the owner found his

answer machine to be disturbing, instructed staff not to accepthim as a member.

80 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/25/colorado-shooting-suspect-notebook-reports.html81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes82 Also see “Shooter School Clues” section.http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21140571/cu-officials-defend-academic-personal-support-available-holmes?source=pkg83 Also see “Psychiatric Concerns” chapter.84 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22129860/cu-expected-release-nearly-3-800-emails-referencing85 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22129860/cu-expected-release-nearly-3-800-emails-referencing



June 29, Holmes cell phone was used to take photos whichincluded the interior of the theater, door hinges and back doors,to later be used as evidence at a preliminary hearing.86

In early July, he ordered a Blackhawk Urban Assault Vest, aknife and two magazine holders from a Web site called TacticalGear,87 which is now getting abusive calls and e-mail.88 Theshooter chose expedited two day delivery.

July 5, Holmes cell phone was used to take photos whichincluded: his armament; and also the interior of the theater,door hinges and back doors, to later be used as evidence at apreliminary hearing.89

July 6, he legally purchased the second Glock pistol.90

Week or two in advance (+more Jan-10+) July 11, Holmes cell phone was used to take photos which

included the interior of the theater, door hinges and back doors,to later be used as evidence at a preliminary hearing.91

July 12, see July 23 regarding Fox allegations about timing ofColorado University getting notebook detailing the plannedassault.

He had beer with people a few nites before his public violence.He had not yet changed his hair from brown-black to red-orange. He seemed calm, engaged in normal conversationabout sports teams.

o Here is a video interview with a man who shared beerswith James Holmes at the Zephyr Lounge in Aurora.Jackie Mitchell called Holmes a ‘well-educated’ owner ofan ‘intelligent smirk’92

86 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22339300/james-holmes-preliminary-hearing-took-photos-aurora-theater87 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/online-ammunition-sales-highlighted-by-aurora-shootings.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all88 http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21146119/retailer-who-sold-holmes-getting-backlash?source=pkg89 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22339300/james-holmes-preliminary-hearing-took-photos-aurora-theater90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes91 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22339300/james-holmes-preliminary-hearing-took-photos-aurora-theater92 http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/man-shared-beers-with-suspect-called-him-well-educated-owner-of-intelligent-smirk/



July 18, two days before the Aurora shooting, there was anincident with a tourist bus in Bulgaria.93 I have read conflictingreports on the perpetrator.

o One version of reality was that the one body, they couldnot identify, must have been the perpetrator.

o There’s an alert out that the suicide bomber was to bereincarnated and do it again at London Olympics.

o There’s speculation that the bomber got the bomb ontothe luggage, but personally escaped being in the carnage.

o There’s speculation that there are several perpetrators.o I do not know what to believe, all these different realities.o What Bulgaria tourists, and Aurora theater have in

common, is that they are soft targets, without goodsecurity. The cost of adding security has often beenexpensive, and not wisely applied. It may well beimpossible to properly protect every potential target.However, the current state of art is we believe that attacksdo not come out of nowhere. The attackers exhibitbehaviors, before the attacks, which if properly identified,can be used to prevent the attacks. This is a theory.

Times – July 19-20 Violence (+more Jan-10+) July 19 at approx 6.20 pm, Holmes used his cell phone to take

photos of himself, armed for the assault, later used as evidenceat a preliminary hearing.94

July-19 evening, about 2 ½ hours before the shooting (approx10 pm?), according to a statement he made later to the police,the villain took 100mg of the prescription drug Vicodin.95

Thurs July-19 nite, a woman from the apt below, went up tocomplain about the loud techno music, found the 3rd floorapartment unlocked, did not go in. Had she gone in, the boobytraps would have killed her.

o It was reported that the music started at midnight.96 Iftrue, it may have been started by a timer, because other

93 http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/persistent-threat-soft-targets94 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22339300/james-holmes-preliminary-hearing-took-photos-aurora-theater95 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/31291877/index.htmlhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/31290793/detail.html96 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.htmlhttp://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22331861



reports put the culprit in the cinema at the time that themovie started.

o FBI testimony later confirmed it was started by a timer. Thurs 7-19 to Fri 7-20 The screening started at midnight or

00.05 in Theater 9 of Century 16 cinema. Some survivingwitnesses saw a person, later identified as the shooter, blockingthe exit door open, a few minutes into the movie.97

00.30 The movie mass shooting started.98 Some bullets alsowent into theater 8 hitting some people there. Fire Alarm wasused to help evacuate the other theaters where there had notbeen any violence.

00.38 The first of 42 emergency 911 calls was from KevinQuiñonez, who had ducked behind seats, on all fours with hisgirl friend.99 In the 27 second call, 30 gunshots could beheard.100

00.40 Police first arrived at the shooting location.o When the villain exited the theater he was immediately

confronted by at least two officers, who mistook his outfitfor one of their own.101

o Different sources of time lines are so far off from eachother’s development, that not all of them can be correct,unless the Chaos is worse than I can imagine,102 ormaybe some are on a different time zone.

o There were problems with ambulances.103 Police cars,and private vehicles, were used to transport many victimsto hospitals due to lack of ambulances. Police werebegging for more, but some refused to come, or wereredirected by the Fire Dept to a staging area.104 As we

97 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/31291877/index.html98 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/aurora-shooting-twitter-batman_n_1688821.html?1342788992&ncid=edlinkusaolp0000000899 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22333622/man-who-made-first-911-call-i-could100 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22331861101 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/31291877/index.htmlhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/31290793/detail.html102 Also see my research notes essay “Response Chaos” uploaded to simlar places as these notes.103 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21166622/police-radio-shows-delays-shooting-response?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-aurora-shooting+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Aurora+Theater+Shooting%29104 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21168806/aurora-shooting-ambulances-available-but-many-went-unused?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-aurora-shooting+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Aurora+Theater+Shooting%29



look at the dispatch calls, it sounds like different officerswere asking for different things.

o Regional rules are that cities will help neighbor cities, ifthere is an official request. This red tape took at least 20minutes, and of course from neighbor cities there was theextra commute time to arrive.

o The first medical teams on site, appeared to help thewounded who had got outside the theater, ignorant of thefact that more severely wounded were inside.

o The Judge’s gag order has now made it impossible for thenews media to get to the bottom of this. See Mitigation:First Responder Coordination, for my opinions ondesigning a better response capability for the future.

00.41? = 3.07 minutes after shooting reported, DispatchCalls:105

o PO: I have a party shot here. I need rescue hot.o FDD: Medic ... They need you in front of the theater.o FDD: Engine 8, we may have a second victim.


o FDD: Starting third ambulance.o Command: We're going to have staging away from the

scene.o PD: People, who are shot, running out of the theaters.o FDD: Multiple victims probably three plus.

Times 0.44+ Staging Consensus (not)


o PO: I need rescue ... at least three to four ambulances,everyone can stage in the west parking lot.

105 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg106 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg107 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg



o Command: Let's set up ambulance staging at Expo andSable. Is that where they want us to stage in the firstplace?

o FDD: Now they're saying west parking lot. Let me clarifywith PD somewhere where we won't necessarily becoming into their scene.

o Command: They need to set us up a staging area.o FDD: They want the staging area in the west part of the

theater. 00.45 approx is when the shooter was arrested at his car,

behind the theater.108

00.45? = 6.56 minutes after shooting reported, DispatchCalls:109 MEDIC: We are on scene with APD.


o Engine 8: We're on the scene. We're getting reports ofmultiple victims and an active shooter.

o PO: I have two victims. ... I need an ambulance herequick.

o PO: We need to start putting them into cars and startshuttling them out to the west end.

o PO: (inaudible) shot twice in the back.o PO: I need one ambulance.

Times 0.46+ Need medical rescue inside theater


o PO: We need rescue inside the auditorium. Multiplevictims.

o FDD: They're saying they have a party on the east side ofthe theater they can't get to. They need an ambulance.

108 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html109 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg110 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg111 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg



He's shot in the back. And multiple parties inside thetheater.

o PO: I need as many ambulances as we can to theDillard's lot.

o FDD: Looks like you have four ambulances started. PDrequesting as many ambulances as possible to Dillard's.How many ambulances do you want?

o PO: I'm taking one male to the hospital in my car.o PO: Seven down in theater 9.

Times 0.48+ Out of Ambulances


o PO: I got a child victim. I need rescue at the back door oftheater 9 now.

o MEDIC: I'm down here north of the Century theater. Ihave a GSW ... to the leg.

o PO: Dispatch, give me some ambulances on Sable. Iwant ambulances on Dillard's lot.

o FDD to Command: Sir, (inaudible) metro sent allavailable ambulances.

00.50? = 11.44 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:113

o PO: We're bringing out bodies now.o PO: I've got one ambulance here. Where my ambulances

at?o Tower 8 to Command: We need an ambulance for GSW

to abdomen, arms and legs if you have anyone to spare.o PO: I need a medical crew. ... I've got one victim

eviscerated.o FDD: PD wants as many medical personnel as possible.

Two additional engines in route.

112 PO (police officer); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire department command);. GSW(gunshot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg113 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg



o Engine 8: I need ... two ambulances over here rightaway.


o PO: Get me some ambulances in the back of the theateror Sports Authority parking lot.

o FDD: PD is requesting as many medical personnel aspossible to the Dillards. ... We also have a child down.


o PO: Do I have permission to take some of these victimsvia car? I have a whole bunch of people shot out here andno rescue.

o PD command: Yes. Load them up and get them in carsand get them out of here.


o PO: We have one we cannot move in theater 9. Get us anambulance here as soon as they're available.

o FDD: Engine 2, truck 2, engine 4, engine 5 in route.

Times 0.54+ 10+ victims need medical help at back exit


114 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg115 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg116 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg117 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg



o FDD: PD is requesting medical personnel in theater 9.Have a child down and cannot evacuate.

o Command: We're going to set up Fire Department thataren't on scene to stage at Exhibition and Sable.

o PO: We need rescue or we need more patrol cars. ...We're just gonna take these people.

o FDD: DP advising there are 10 people down behindtheater 9.

o PO: Cruiser 6 is taking two more victims.o PO: (Inaudible) ... shot in the neck.o Command: I need all ambulances that they're sending to

stage at Exposition. 00.56? = 18.36 minutes after shooting first reported, Dispatch

Calls:118

o FDD: PD is again requesting emergent medical to theback of the theater.

o Command: I copy that. I'm just trying to get things undercontrol here.

o FDD: I copy, and again they are still asking for additionalmedical in theater 9.

o PO: Moving (inaudible) by police cars. I still need someambulances over here.

o Truck 2: We can take the theater.o PO: Let Aurora South know cruiser 6 is in route. One

critical, one semi-critical.o Command: I need you ...to come up here.

00.57? = 19.10 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:119 Dispatch Police: Truck 2 in route to theater 9.


118 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg119 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg120 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); GSW(gun shot wound).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg



o PO: We need rescue to move up to the rear of thetheater. We have officers there requesting they comeimmediately for multiple victims.

o PO: Advise rescue that officers will be there for security.That's the best thing we can do at this point.

o FDD: Sir, I apologize again, but PD is asking foremergent medical to the back of the theater. They are onscene to provide security.

o Command: Copy. I have truck 2 ... to help engine 8.o FDD: I believe they have another party inside theater 9

that they can't evacuate, which is the child, but they have10 parties down behind the theater.

Times 0.59+ Fire Dept priority shifts – was rushing all availableunits to the scene, now organizing clusters of aid sites


o PO: We're evacuating victims.o Command: Go ahead and activate the EM system. We're

going to need to know exactly how many beds these ...hospitals can take.

o FDD: Do we have an approximate patient count?o PO: Come back for more. I have two here that need

treatment right away.o PO: All right. I'm getting there.


o Command: I'm just trying to sort it out right. I hear 10here, four here. I'm going to go with 20 right now. Let'sjust go with 20 people until we get this verified.

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o FIRE Dillard Division: I have Medic 102 over here. Can Ihave them to transport my two red patients?

00.59? = 21.06 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:123 Command: Copy. All divisions set up a extrication,triage, treatment, transport within your division.

1:00 = 21.49 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:124 Engine 5: Command, we're right by the theater. Wejust had a police officer run up to us that has nine patientsbehind the theater here. This would be on the east side of thetheater. Do you want us to stay here or go with the policeofficer?

1:01 = 22.56 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:125

o FDD: Command, did you copy engine 5?o Command: Copy.o FDD: I need to know if you want them to stay there or

continue onto Dillard's.o Police dispatch: I still have a lot of people shot on the

east side. I need cars there.o Engine 5: We're on the east side of the theater on Sable.

Do you want us to attend to the patients on the east side?o Command: You only have one patient there, correct?o Engine 5: Police officer told us said there are nine

patients. 1:02 = 24.02 minutes after shooting first reported, Dispatch

Calls:126

123 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); GSW (gunshot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg124 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); GSW (gunshot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg125 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); GSW (gunshot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg126 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); AMBOS(ambulances); GSW (gun shot wound); K-9 (police dogs).



o Truck 2: We are in the rear of the theater. We have nineshot. If we can get any ambulances in stage on Sable, wecan get them over to the ambos.

o Command: OK, just stand by. Let me get this sorted out.I will be with you in a minute.

o Command: Do we know if the chief is responding?o FDD: That's negative, sir. Do you want me to start

(inaudible) chief?o Command: Yeah, I need chief (inaudible) here.

1:03 = 25.06 minutes after shooting first reported, DispatchCalls:127

o Command: Truck 2, I want you to join up with Engine 5.I'm just going to make you Sable division. ... We're goingto start there until we get more resources.

o Police dispatch: We need another car for transportbehind theater 9.

o FDD: The lieutenant with the police department isrequesting to meet you face to face in front of the theater.

o Dillards Division: We're sending two ... patients off.o Command: We're waiting to hear from the EM system

what beds are available. 1:05 = 26.47 minutes after shooting first reported, Dispatch

Calls:128

http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg127 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); AMBOS(ambulances); GSW (gun shot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkgSee MAP info within LINKS at the bottom. The Cinema is at SE corner of Town Center Mall. First firedept staging area for arriving ambulances, at Dillards in that Mall parking area, just across from frontentrance to the Cinema. That gets called FIRE Dillards Division. There is a main road running past theback of the Cinema, called Sable. A second staging area is created there, and gets called FIRE SableDivision, to help coordinate rescue traffic to where needed, and where available.128 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); AMBOS(ambulances); GSW (gun shot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg See MAP info within LINKS at the bottom, of these notes. The Cinema is at SEcorner of Town Center Mall. First fire dept staging area for arriving ambulances, at Dillards in that Mallparking area, just across from front (west) entrance to the Cinema. That gets called FIRE DillardsDivision.



o Truck 2 to command: FYI, right now we're loadingpatients into back of PD cars to get them transported. Anyambos we could get would be nice.

o Command to FDD: How many ambulances ... do I have?I need to have them all go to staging cause we havepeople jumping in and out. I'm not sure anybody even is.

o FDD: To be honest, sir, I don't know an exact count ofambulances. They did just advise me that they're sendingtwo more from (inaudible ) and we have every unit that'savailable in the city of Aurora.

o Command: I need them to go to Sable. Can they send asupervisor, ... to be in charge of the transport area overthere at Expo and Sable so we can get a handle onambulances, have them stage and then I can send theminto each division.

o Command: Make sure that all these ambulances know toreturn to staging area over at Expo and Sable.

1:08 = 29.46 minutes into first response, Dispatch Calls:129

o East division to command: We have transported sevenpatients. We're on our eighth patient. Also talked to policeofficer who said we may have a number of people deadinside the theater.

o Command: OK, if they're dead, leave them. We're in amass casualty situation at this time.

o FDD: They do have ambulances returning to the stagingarea.

o Command: Anybody else that's in the area that we cancontact? Somebody we can get a hold of ... anybody?

o FDD: We're working on finding additional transport rigs.

Sable is main road running past back exits (east) of Cinema. Thus FIRE Sable Division is name for secondstaging area, to help coordinate rescue traffic to where needed, and track what available. The rendezvouspoint is Expo and Sable. Expo refers to Exposition which is the road to the south of the Mall and Cinema.129 PO (police officer); PD (police dept); FDD (fire department dispatch); Command (fire departmentcommand); PD Command (police department command); EM (emergency medical system); AMBOS(ambulances); GSW (gun shot wound); K-9 (police dogs).http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21149907/medical-response-movie-theater-shooting?source=pkg See MAP info within LINKS at the bottom, of these notes. The Cinema is at SEcorner of Town Center Mall. First fire dept staging area for arriving ambulances, at Dillards in that Mallparking area, just across from front (west) entrance to the Cinema. That gets called FIRE DillardsDivision.Sable is main road running past back exits (east) of Cinema. Thus FIRE Sable Division is name for secondstaging area, to help coordinate rescue traffic to where needed, and track what available. The rendezvouspoint is Expo and Sable. Expo refers to Exposition which is the road to the south of the Mall and Cinema.



Times 1.25+ Crisis center now hospitals and bombs 1.25 am: Police thought all critical victims had been evacuated

from the theater area, according to TV news. For the hospitals,victim injuries were compared to suddenly being in a warzone.130

1:27 am: "Bring as much crime scene tape as you can."131

1:28 am: Aurora PD merging communications with DenverPD.132

1:35 am: Shooter wearing green camo pants.133

1:37 am: Bomb squad is there; bringing in K-9 units; possibleother bombs.134

1:40 am: 18 ambulances on scene.135

1:42 am: "All ten people in the theater are black." In thiscontext, it means fatalities.136

1:43 am: Report of a bomb going off in a theater.137

1:47 am: Command staff briefing. This is huge.138

1:49 am: Car, Tennessee plates, Hyundai, license [redacted].third to west, in front of doors. Possible bomb. Main entrancesof mall covered. Bomb squad moving in.139

1:53 am: Canine units coordinating at SE entrance between JCPenney's and the food court. May be a bomb in there. Theorythat bombs may be in front of theater.140

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1:55 am: New evidence for shooters. That's plural. Theater 8,the shooter was seated. One more was outside, went intoTheater 9. Coordinated attack. Two shooters. Open doordiscovered at mall. Suspicion of bomb in there.141

1:57 am: Due to bombs, police relocating all units to S ofDillard's. Open door was in Macy's. Suspicions of bombsthere.142

Times 2 am+ Apartment complex evacuation begins 2 am: Police began to evacuate the apartment complex.143

2:01 am: Setting up a "unified command"144

2:06 am: Secondary explosive device found in front oftheater.145

2:08 am: Bringing K-9 unit to the command post.146

2:18 am: Witnesses being transported to Gateway High School.There are 100 witnesses.147

2:32 am: "Code 2, cruiser 49 ASAP"148

2:42 am: "Possible older cop car-type seen fleeing thescene"149

2:45 am: Which ambulances going where: 5 to Denver, 14 toUniversity, 4 to Children's, 3 to Aurora South, 2 to Parker, 2 toSwedish.150

2:52 am: Several police cars surrounding a vehicle. Possibleexplosive devices inside.151

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2:59 am: Scanners report knife pulled on someone. WAY faraway from theater. May be unrelated.152

3:02 am: Confirmed: At least 10 killed, 39 injured. Theaters 8and 9 were sold out, and that's where the shooting allegedlytook place.153

3:02 am: Nothing found inside the mall so far. Dogs coming out.

Times 3.15 am+ News media briefed

3:15 am: Press conference: Gas released, gunman opened fire.Only know of one gunman. Police officers respond, find thegunman outside of the theater, carrying gas mask, rifle,handgun. One additional weapon found inside. 50 were hit. 14confirmed dead.154

3:49 am: More confirmation. 14 dead. 50 injured.155

4:35 am: President Barack Obama notified about theshooting.156

4:46 am: Children's hospital in Aurora treating six victims aged6 to 31; Chik-fil-a is opening for officers who needrestrooms/food.157

Times 5.15 am+ Crisis points: movie wounded to hospitals;shooter car & apt with bombs

5:04 am: White House releases a statement offeringcondolences: /u/nilicule here158

5:10 am: Youngest patient at University hospital is 3 monthsold, according to a tweet.159

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5:16 am: /u/nilicule: Good Morning America reports at least 100FBI agents are on scene in Aurora, Colorado.160

5:17 am: /u/hgmanifold: Car cleared by bomb squad, clearingbackpacks.161

5:19 am: /u/yelhsa87: Video of police describing shootings.162

5:27 am: /u/hgmanifold: Bomb squad is requesting a LadderTruck and 30ft boom with "cherry picker"163

5:28 am: Mitt Romney: 'Ann and I are deeply saddened by thenews of the senseless violence that took the lives of 15 peoplein Colorado'164

5:33 am: Suspect's house confirmed: 17th & Peoria165

5.35 am KDVR learns that the reason Cinema-16 wasevacuated was because an employee pulled the fire alarm.166

5:35 am: FBI: Suspect indicates he has explosives at hishouse.167

5:36 am: /u/jason-samfield: Tissue samples being collected forevidence.168

5:40 am: /u/hgmanifold: Bomb Squad released.169

5:44 am: /u/nilicule: All available SWAT to report to 17th andPeoria for meeting will be soon releasing a team.170

5:49 am: Good news. Death count revised from 14/15 to 12.171

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5:53 am: /u/hgmanifold + /u/CCFTW: Bomb squad wasreleased from the vehicle at the theater. Second unit on sceneat the apt. complex.172

Times 6 am+ more bomb squads to the apt

6:06 am: FBI: Shooter had an assault rifle, two handguns, andteargas.173 The car had Tennessee plates.174 Shooter born inDecember '87. Shooter has given police a name, but needs tobe confirmed. Apprehended outside the theater.175

6:08 am: Adams, Aurora, and Denver county bomb squads areinvestigating his apartment.176

6:09 am: /u/CCFTW + /u/OrgasmicWalrus: 2 federal officialssay suspect in Colorado movie theater mass shooting is JamesHolmes, born December 13, 1987.177

6:12 am: Only contact with Holmes was a traffic ticket./u/derphurr: His apartment is across the street from PeoriaElementary School.178

6:13 am: /u/disorderlee: Video of the police arriving at theapartment.179

6:27 am: /u/hgmanifold: Electricity is NOT to be shut off, just incase of triggers. Also, (/u/shankee) Denver Health upgrades thecritical patient to "fair condition"180

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6:29 am: /u/nilicule: Gas was shut off to the suspect'sbuilding.181

7:03 am: /u/hgmanifold: PD is requesting HazMat.182

7:16: /u/nilicule: CNN: As precaution, NYPD will be providingcoverage at theaters where 'The Dark Knight Rises' is playing.source; /u/blerg: Guy who was in theater 9: here, and girlhere.183

7:35: Press conference by Aurora Medical Center.184

8:12: Colorado Governor Hickenlooper on Aurora massshooting: here185

8:15: Try not to pursue people named James Holmes onFacebook.186

8:17: Barack Obama calls mayor of Aurora. Washington ishugely involved.187

8:20: /u/shankee: Buckets of ammo found in the apartment.188

8:28: /u/nilicule: The U.S. Army, concerned over speculationthat the shooter might have been a veteran — and eager tostifle the meme of the psychotic veteran before it spread — feltcompelled to email that a database check of the suspectresulted in "no evidence suggest[ing] this individual served inthe Army." via Wired.189

8:36: /u/nilicule: Huffington Post profile of James Holmes.190

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8:44: /u/Deus_Viator: Blood banks are looking for (/u/srepetsk)O-, A-, and platelet donors.191

8:45: /u/nilicule: Apartment of Aurora shooting suspect isbooby-trapped with flammable or explosive material, Aurorapolice say192

8:50: President Obama is addressing the nation. Audio of hiscomments already uploaded here (/u/tenuto). Transcript here(/u/apeudire)193

8:53: /u/nilicule: 5 buildings evacuated around the site.194

8:58: /u/nilicule: Explosives appear 'very sophisticated' andpolice could be at scene 'for hours or days,' Aurora police chiefsays195

9:00: /u/Deus_Viator: Hazmat team has arrived at the suspect'sresidence.

9:10: University of Colo. Med School says shooting suspectwas student there but withdrew last month.196

Fri 7-20 Initial police effort to interview witnesses and survivors,

of both crime scenes, and anyone who had had prior contactwith the villain. Judge Sylvester issued a gag order to seal allofficial legal documents related to the case of James E Holmesdefendant.197 This may be gag order # 1. There is someconfusion in the news media regarding how many gag orders.

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The Denver Post has an interactive time line, constructed fromTwitter, and other, traffic relevant to this crisis.198

Fri 7-20, 8 pm: A prayer vigil starts with about 200 people,across from Cinema 16, which was still an active crimescene.199

Time Line 7-21 + Sat 7-21 8 am: Apartment trip wire was disarmed.200

Sat 7-21 10 am: Town Center mall across from Cinema 16 isreopened.201

Sat 7-21 Early afternoon, the shooter’s father arrives in town, tocooperate with investigators.202

Sat 7-21 3 pm POLICE: tip line working well.203

o 84 leads from tips so far. Anyone with info 720-913-7867 Sat 7-21 4.45 pm Authorities at the Aurora Medical Center have

said the volume of patients they received from the Auroratheater shooting is the most extreme they’ve seen — more so,even, than the Columbine tragedy.204

o “We got more patients in a shorter period of time,” Centersurgeon James Denton said. “We were better preparedfor it. Some of our disaster planning and training servedus well.”

o Denton said the injuries ranged from gunshot wounds tothe head, chest and abdomen, along with “substantialwounds to extremities.”

Sat 7-21 Apartment explosives were removed and disposed of6.15 pm,205 then evidence in there was transferred to the FBIlab in Quantico Virginia. It took the bomb squad 36 hours to getall of that deadly stuff out of there.

Sat 7-21 6.45 pm Police Updates regarding the shooter’sapartment:206

198 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21119904199 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html200 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html201 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html202 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/31291877/index.html203 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/204 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/205 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html206 KDVR Time Line:



All hazards have been removed. The FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) remains on scene

processing the apartment for evidence. This will be the casefor several more hours. FBI ERT will continue those effortstomorrow.

The hazards have been removed and transported to adisposal site.

All evacuated residents can return to their homes. WITHTHE EXCEPTION OF 1690 PARIS STREET. This buildingwill remain secure for the purpose of preserving evidence.

The only remaining street closure is in the 1600 block ofParis.

Sat 7-21 Coroner released identities207 of the dead.o The Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office has definitively

identified 11 of the 12 victims who were killed inside theCentury 16 movie theater:

Jessica N. Ghawi (11/27/1987) Veronica Moser-Sullivan (12/23/2005) John T. Larimer (2/16/1985) Alexander J. Boik (9/20/1993) Jesse E. Childress (1/5/1983) Jonathan T. Blunk (1/20/1986) Rebecca Ann Wingo (10/8/1979) Alex M. Sullivan (7/20/1985) Gordon W. Cowden (11/17/1960) Micayla C. Medek (5/5/1989) Alexander C. Teves (6/1/1988) One Additional victim, Matthew R. McQuinn

(3/26/1985), has been presumptively identified, but isawaiting definitive identification.

o All of the families have been notified.

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o Autopsies have been carried out on all of the victims. Thecause of death in all cases is related to gunshot wounds.The manner of death is homicide.

o The Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office conveys itssincerest condolences to the family and friends of thevictims.

Sat 7-21 FBI and ATF start visiting gun dealers in the area,questioning them about weapon sales to the theater gunman.208

Sat 7-21 8.30 pm, Residents of buildings, in the Apartmentcomplex, other than the one the perpetrator lived in, areallowed to return home.209

Sat 7-21 10.30 pm, Police received an electronic threat of moreviolence if the first villain did not get released.210

Time Line 7-22 – Aftermath Immediate Sun 7-22 9 am, Theater-goers are now allowed to pick up their

vehicles from the Century-16 movie parking lot.211

Sun 7-22 1.45 pm Updates from Aurora police:o Police update regarding the Paris Street apartment

address:212

The law enforcement perimeter has been reduceddown to include only the building located at 1690 NorthParis Street. The processing and collection of evidenceinside the suspect’s apartment has concluded. Securityof the building is still being maintained because ofchemical hazards from the suspect’s apartment.Residents are being allowed to get personal items.When it is deemed safe, they will be allowed to returnhome. It is not known when this will occur for certain.

Once the building is released to the residents, thesuspect’s apartment will remain sealed off to maintainscene integrity.

208 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21172940/fbi-atf-question-grand-county-shop-owners-aurora209 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html210 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31292850/detail.html211 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/212 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/



o Police update regarding crime scene at theater:213

The theater crime scene is not expected to bereleased for up to a week. This is for evidentiarypurposes for case preparation.

Sun 7-22 7.45 pm University of Colorado-Denver AnschutzMedical Campus issues alert restricting access to areas of thecampus.214

Sun 7-22 President Obama attends Aurora Colorado servicesfor the deceased, after visiting one of the hospitals, andmeeting families of victims.215 There is a prayer vigil.

Sun 7-22 Colorado Governor Hickenlooper compares the movieshooter to a terrorist.216

Time Line 7-23 + Mon 7-23 10 am The DA had a press conference.217

o Anybody, who has information which may be pertinent inthe case, is urged to contact the police or the districtattorney’s office.

o Victims’ families will be consulted before a decision ismade on seeking the death penalty.

Mon 7-23 2 pm Lawyer for suspect’s family holds newsconference in San Diego to clarify mother’s “You have the rightperson comment.” She was referring to herself, and not herson.218

Mon 7-23 2.45 pm Booking photo of the suspect is released.219

213 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/214 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/215 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/23/obama-vists-aurora-survivors-victims?CMP=NECNETTXT8187&google_editors_picks=truehttp://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/216 http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/22/colorado-governor-in-a-funny-way-this-guy-is-a-terrorist/217 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/218 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/219 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/



Mon 7-23 3.09 pm Court set up a web page for documentsrelated to the People of the State of Colorado v. JamesHolmes.220

Mon 7-23 Colorado University officially received the villain’snotebook with info about the planned killing.221 Fox newsclaims it arrived July-12 then sat unopened for a week, and hadit been opened promptly, the shootings might have beenaverted. However, if that was true, police going to theapartment might have set off the bombs, which might havekilled the occupants of 5 apartment buildings.

Mon 7-23 Authorities got the package, via a search warrant,then the defense team said doctor-patient confidentiality, thenlater part of the relevant court record got redacted.222

Mon 7-23 First court appearance for the culprit, whose defensewanted news media barred from the court, but the Judgedenied that request.

o Judge William Blair Sylvester allowed cameras in thecourt room, with some limitations,223 but also issued a gagorder to all law enforcement personnel, lawyers, andothers involved in the prosecution or defense, fromdiscussing the case with the news media.224 This may begag order # 2. There is some confusion in the newsmedia regarding how many gag orders.

220 KDVR Time Line:http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/221 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21156393/theater-shooting-feds-say-suspect-may-have-mailed?source=pkghttp://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2012/0727/20120727_011819_2012-07-27%2012CR1522%20Motion%20D11.pdf222

http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/12CR1522%20Motion%20D11.pdf223 Cameras and News media in court room:http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/Extended%20Media%20Coverage%20and%20Decorum%20Order%207-20-12.pdfhttp://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/MEDIA%20ALERT%20re%20Monday%20July%2023%20930%20am%20appearance.pdf224Gag order vs. law enforcement:http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/ci_21165262/amended-gag-order-issued-aurora-theater-shooting-

casehttp://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/12CR1522%20Media%20Alert%20Seating%20and%20Logistics%20for%207_30_2012.pdfhttp://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/Pretrial%20Publicity%20Order%207-23-12.pdf



o KWGN. has the whole court appearance available forviewing here.225

Mon 7-23 Suspicious packages, found on campus, near wherethe shooter had worked, turned out to be harmless.226

Mon 7-23 New Jersey Fusion Center issues an assessment ofthe incident at the Colorado Movie Theater.227

Time Line 7-24 + Tues 7-24 thru Tues 7-31, Crocs â a Colorado-based company

will donate $5 to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, for every pair ofshoes sold on their website or in Colorado retail stores.228

Tues 7-24 The legal defense team (from public defender office)gets access to the theater.

Wed 7-25 The defense team visits the apartment. Wed 7-25 Residents of the evacuated final apartment building

are allowed to go home, Wednesday evening.229

Wed 7-25 Judge Sylvester issued a decorum order foreveryone attending any court appearances of the case,recognizing that the court house is not large enough toaccommodate all the stuff desired by the news media.230

Thurs 7-26 District Judge William Blair Sylvester issued a gagorder, blocking news media access to any information from theUniversity of Colorado regarding the gunman’s involvementthere as a student.231 He said this would impede the on-goingjudicial investigation. Arapahoe County District Attorney CarolChambers requested the order after the University of Coloradoat Denver told her office Saturday about a large number of

225 http://kdvr.com/on-air/live-streaming/226 http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suspicious-packages-at-Colo-university-harmless-3729019.php227 https://publicintelligence.net/njroic-colorado-shooting/228 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21169635/theater-shooting-crocs-donates-5-victims-fund-every?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-aurora-shooting+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Aurora+Theater+Shooting%29229 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21159910/residents-at-alleged-gunmans-apartment-return-home-media230

http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/Standing%20Decorum%20Order%207-25-12.pdf231

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record requests from various news media.232 This may be gagorder # 3. There is some confusion in the news mediaregarding how many gag orders.

Thurs 7-26 Several hospitals say they will adjust billing toforgive expenses of shooting victims, not covered byinsurance.233

Thurs 7-26 Congress honors the heroes, expressescondolences to the victims.234

Time Line 7-27 – Week after Sun 7-29 Governor John Hickenlooper, of Colorado ordered

that flags in front of state buildings are to return to normal, afterbeing at half mast for a week after the Aurora massacre.235

They are to be lowered to half mast again on days of funeralsfor additional victims, who died later.

Mon 7-30 An advocate has been appointed to represent theinterests of the victims, presumably in the court proceedingsagainst the villain.236

Mon 7-30 Second court appearance for the villain, whosedefense team wanted news media barred from the court, butJudge Sylvester denied that request. 237 See Charges chapter inInvestigation section for what all he has been charged with, sofar. Several wounded victims in hospitals are still in criticalcondition. There are also special seating arrangements toaccommodate the news media.238 Cameras banned at thisappearance.239

232 http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/colo-judge-bans-release-of-suspects-univ-docs/2012/07/26/gJQAd4YaCX_story.html233 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21167231/more-hospitals-adjust-bills-shooting-victims-unable-pay234 http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21163165/house-honors-victims-colorado-theater-massacre?source=pkg235 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21175999/aurora-theater-shootings-flags-back-full-staff-sunday236 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21190798/da-appoints-advocate-colo-shooting-victims237

http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/EMC%20Order%20dated%207-24-12.pdf238

http://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/12CR1522/12CR1522%20Media%20Alert%20Seating%20and%20Logistics%20for%207_30_2012.pdf239 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21148057/cameras-denied-aurora-theater-shooting-suspects-next-court?source=pkg



Mon 7-30 Court hearing to address appeal by over a score ofnews organizations seeking to reverse some of the gag ordermandates.240

Tues 7-31 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director RobertMueller visits Colorado.241

Tues 7-31 See Crocs â shoes on Tues 7-24. Tues 7-31 Mother, of one of the 12 dead victims, consults with

a lawyer, for expert legal advice on options.242 She just needsto know if something could have been done differently so thatRebecca would still be here.

Wed 8-1 Ten victims of the shooting are still in area hospitals,approx 2 weeks later.243 Some of those out of critical danger,and out of hospitals, will still have a long time for recovery, ifever. One released but had to be re-admitted, is in faircondition.

o At the University of Colorado Hospital, one patientremains in critical condition and three patients are in faircondition, according to spokesman Dan Weaver.244

o At the Medical Center of Aurora, all but three of 18patients have been released — one is in critical condition,one is in serious condition and one is in fair condition,according to spokeswoman Tracy Weise.245

Thurs 8-2 Aurora public schools will be doing several thingsdifferently, as they re-open after the summer.246 More security,more mental health aid.

240 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21176907/judge-orders-media-open-records-request-be-addressed?source=pkghttp://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21176907/judge-orders-media-open-records-request-be-addressedhttp://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21175859/media-seek-end-secrecy-order-shooting-case241 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21200165/fbi-director-robert-mueller-visits-colorado-following-theater?source=pkg242 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21200531/mom-theater-shooting-victim-hires-lawyer-explore-options?source=pkg243 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21213349/at-least-10-theater-shooting-victims-remain-hospitals244 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21213349/at-least-10-theater-shooting-victims-remain-hospitals245 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21213349/at-least-10-theater-shooting-victims-remain-hospitals246 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21219702/aurora-schools-prepare-help-students-following-theater-shooting



Time Line Aug 5+ Sikh Temple WI shootingFor sections of this document, with key relevant info, see at very endwhere I note what got added for versions 0.7 and 0.8 of my notes.

Sunday Aug 5 at approx 10 am CDT (Central Daylight SavingsTime), a mass shooting began at a Sikh Temple in OakCreek, south of Milwaukee Wisconsin, along LakeMichigan. As with any mass shooting event, initial reportswere uncertain. I will try to update any incorrect info, as I getbetter info.

o When I first heard about this, my first thoughts were:o This may be a Muslim-hater who cannot tell one religious

group from another, and is attacking here, thinking theyare Muslims. We have had a bunch of such attacks, andSikhs are often the victims because they are people ofnon-white color, with attire that is strange to persons whoare ignorant of comparative religions.

- Sikh rights groups have reported a rise inbias attacks since the Sept. 11, 2001,terrorist attacks. The Washington-basedSikh Coalition has reported more than 700incidents in the U.S. since 9/11, whichadvocates blame on anti-Islamicsentiment. Sikhs don't practice the samereligion as Muslims, but their long beardsand turbans often cause them to bemistaken for Muslims, advocates say.247

- The same kind of thing has beenhappening in Britain since the 2007terrorist attacks.248

o This may be someone from a part of the world which hasSikh extremists engaged in a religious war with people ofother religions, and this person is incapable ofassimilating into a western society which does notencourage that kind of behavior, except verbally.

247http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/a-tragic-history-of-hate-crimes-against-sikhs-in-thttp://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/05/13130110-gunman-opens-fire-at-sikh-temple-in-

wisconsin-7-dead?lite248 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/britain-sikhs-idINL6E8J6D3E20120806



o Since a police officer killed the gunman, we may neverknow for sure what the motivations were.

o If this event was at a Muslim house of worship in USA, wewould not be hearing about it so promptly. Since 9/11there have been a ton of bombings and killings at Muslimhouses of worship in the USA, which the mainstreamnews media has chosen not to cover.

Time Line attack begins on Sikh Temple officials reported seeing suspicious individuals and

receiving suspicious phone calls in the days prior to theincident.249

The Sikh Temple was preparing some community religiousobservances, which involved some celebration, where many ofthe congregation were still en route to their house of worship,when the shooting began.

o The celebration was to include a meal. They werepreparing for hundreds of attendees.

o As part of the Sikh religion, the men wear beards andlong hair. The male shooter was clean shaven, and bald,so he could not have been part of their congregation.

- Many US church shootings are becausesomeone has a gripe with the pastor. It ishighly unlikely that is relevant here.

- Many attacks on US churches, andworldwide, are because someone has agripe with the religion, or race of thepeople there, or something in their mindwhich is irrelevant to the people they areattacking. I believe that is most likely thecause here, but will wait for theinvestigation.

- The suspect was in his early 40s, andwhile he had an arrest record, it was forminor offenses, one federal official said.250

249 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oak_Creek_shooting250 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/05/13130110-gunman-opens-fire-at-sikh-temple-in-wisconsin-7-dead?lite



- There are also reports the suspect waswearing tactical gear.

o Apparently he shot a priest who was outside the temple,then entered and was seen by a 10 year old child, whosounded the alarm. The Sikhs fled from the shooter toother places in the building, including bathrooms andclosets, from which they called 911, and sent textmessages.

o The victims believed there were several shooters, maybeas many as three different ones. The police believe therewas only one shooter, but to be on the safe side, theyconducted a thorough search.

o Independently, other police forces both in the area, andaround the USA, were sent to other Sikh temples, toprovide security, in case this hit was part of a larger plot.

o Police first checked the Temple building and grounds,make sure the 17,000 square foot facility is clear ofattendees, victims, etc. then make that a crime scene forthe time being. Witnesses moved to a nearby BowlingAlley for the police interviews.

o As members of the congregation are allowed to leave,check vehicles parked there, and in immediate vicinity, totry to determine how the shooter arrived at the scene, ifthere are any clues in his vehicle.

o Minutes after news of this mass shooting made it out intoour world, hate mongers spewed out their usualgarbage.251

o Then search a wooded area around the Temple, to makesure there are no more victims in need of rescue, and nomore trouble makers to pick up where the dead gunmanleft off.

o The police say it is not unusual for survivors, viewing asituation from different angles, to give different reports,which sound like different perpetrators. There can beevents different places in the building, as the shootermoves around. There can be the echos of earlier shots.The police found two semi-automatic handguns, believedto have been what the shooter brought to the scene.

251 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/westboro-responds-to-wisc_n_1745173.html



Time Line Sikh victims The first police to respond to the 911 calls, encountered a

victim outside the Temple, then started attending to that victim’smedical needs, and were doing so, when they were ambushedby a shooter. The police returned fire, killing that shooter.They also reported this event, and more police responded.

o I have seen conflicting stories in the media, regardingwhen the first 911 calls arrived, and how rapidly the policeresponded. Somewhere between 10.15 and 10.30 am forwhen the police got their info.

Aug 5 at approx 11.18 am CDT, the first responders calledFroedtert Hospital in Milwaukee to warn of woundedpatients on the way. There were 3 adult male patients, all incritical condition, including one of the police officers. Therewere 7 dead, including the gunman.

o Police found two semi-automatic handguns at the scene,both initially presumed to be part of the shooter’s arsenal.By end of day, one of the guns had been identified asbelonging to the police officer who was critically injured.The other gun presumed to be the gunman’s.

o The FBI is in charge of the criminal investigation. Theyare treating this as a domestic terrorism incident.252

- Note that the Aurora villain has not beencharged with neither domestic terrorism,nor a hate crime. The latter is when somegroup of people are targeted notindividually but a classification, such asmovie goers, or associated with theUniversity.

Time Line Briefings Aug 5 at approx 4 pm CDT, there was a law enforcement press

conference, followed by a hospital press conference, regarding

252 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/05/13130110-gunman-opens-fire-at-sikh-temple-in-wisconsin-7-dead?lite



the Sikh shooting. The next one will be Aug 6 10 am CDT atOak Creek police HQ.

o There is a lot of info not yet ready to be shared with thepublic. Details on victims will not go out, until all familymembers notified.

o The reports confirmed some info I had heard earlier onnews media, mention above.253

o The hospital is not expecting any more patients from thisincident.

Aug 9 there is court hearing to see if the Colorado case shouldbe unsealed from gag order.254 Both sides of the trial areopposed to this. The judge will publish his ruling later. Duringthat hearing, the defendant’s lawyer claimed the villain has amental disease, for which he tried to get help before theincidents. During the hearing, a woman seated in thecourtroom jumped up and said she had "information vital to thedefense" but defense attorneys would not speak with her. Thejudge had her escorted out of the hearing by deputies.255

Aug-16 there will be a court hearing to decide whether thenotebook which the Colorado villain mailed his psychiatrist iscovered by doctor-patient confidentiality.256

Nov-13 is tentative date for court hearing to decide if the twosides in the Colorado case are ready to go to trial.257

Time Line 2013 Aurora CoAurora is back in the news January 2013 with a smaller massshooting.258

253 I first found out about this, when I visited someone G+ stream, to see what they were into. I visitedbecause they had praised something unrelated which I had posted. Their link was to Fox News, which isnot my primary source of facts. I went looking for alternate sources, found several with similar relateddescriptive pictures. Then I turned on TV news, where CNN was helpful, but had poor sound reception athospital press conference, so I switched to Fox which had better reception.254 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21191265/hearing-underway-man-suspected-killing-12-aurora-theater?source=pkg255 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/09/us-usa-shooting-denver-idUSBRE8781I120120809256 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21191265/hearing-underway-man-suspected-killing-12-aurora-theater?source=pkghttp://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2012/0727/20120727_011819_2012-07-27%2012CR1522%20Motion%20D11.pdf257 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21191265/hearing-underway-man-suspected-killing-12-aurora-theater?source=pkg258 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57562237/aurora-standoff-ends-with-suspect-3-others-dead/



Heroics in the TheaterTwo men risked their lives to protect their women companions, andthe men lost their lives in the process.

One girl was down in the aisle, bleeding badly. Her friend pulled herout of the line of fire, stopped the bleeding. The wounded girl told herfriend to escape. She did not. One hand stopped the bleeding, theother called 911.

Movie goers helped each other get out of the carnage.259

Good ServicesSeveral airlines are offering free transportation to victim families.260

See Jul 24 to 31 shoe sales.

Texas A&MAs with other mass shooting incidents, we don’t know from initialreporting, what if anything might in common between them.

Was the shooter a crazy person, either temporary or otherinsanity?

Was the shooter a hater of the targets? Was this part of a larger conspiracy?

A police officer was serving an eviction notice on the man, at a homenear Texas A&M University. The man killed that officer, anotherperson, wounded four, before the police killed the shooter.261

His family claims he had mental health problems, before thisincident.262

Newtown CT Elementary SchoolThere is stuff I now believe to be true, although it has not yet beenconfirmed by official sources. There is also a lot of blatantly untrue

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/01/05/deadly-swat-shooting-aurora/259 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21125778/wounded-teen-helped-victim-theater-shooting?source=pkg260 http://www.denverpost.com/theatershooting/ci_21176776/aurora-shooting-more-airlines-offer-free-airfare-victims261 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/14/us-usa-texas-shooting-idUSBRE87C0V220120814262 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/thomas-caffall-texas-am-shooting_n_1774282.html



nonsense being spouted by uninformed persons who grace the TVnews shows as anchors, and get paid ungodly salaries for beingignorant mouth pieces of Television entertainment. I am also seeingsimilar garbage in some newspaper stories. So this info here is amixture of what I am hearing, and what I am able to dispute.Anyone who says this is the worst mass shooting in US history, istotally ignorant of what happened when Europeans colonized a landwhich had Native Indians, and what happened to those natives.

However, events with this volume of deaths, or more, is like once in ablue moon. If we want to combat violence in America, we shouldfocus on the constant drumbeat of small numbers of children killed,maimed, terrorized, traumatized, in communities all over the country,on a regular basis.

Friday Dec 14 morning, a mentally ill young man entered Sandy Hookelementary school in Newtown CT, fired many bullets, killing childrenand adults, then took his own life. The id on him, was that of hisbrother, which caused confusion, early on in the investigation.

Flags will be at ½ mast around the USA at least until Dec 18.

I am on CDT time. + 1 hour = ET, or CT time.

Authorities confirmed informationI have watched several press conferences where police, and otherauthorities, have stated what they know so far. Immediately beforeand after, there have been news media saying “the police said this”“the police said that” “according to authorities” etc. etc. but they didnot yet say any such thing at the press conferences.

The event, at the school, started around 9.30 – 9.40 am Dec-14.9.41 am was when the first 911 call was received.Police arrived rapidly, made sure the children were protected,evacuated to the Fire House.There are fatalities on scene, students and staff.The shooter is deceased, in the school.The school has been searched thoroughly to make sure no activeshooter hiding there, and all students and staff accounted for.The info so far has been used to get search warrants for more info.



CT state police are in charge, with help from Newsome police dept,FBI and ATF.

The school now secure, early afternoon Dec-14.

The shooter had forced his way into the school. He was not let involuntarily.

We got to hear some of the 911 calls, one of which said the frontglass was broken.

Victims Named Dec-15Police have identified all victims, not yet published complete list, butthere is much news media speculation regarding allegedly omittednames.Here is a list of the victims, named by the state police.263

The chief medical examiner of Connecticut, Dr Wayne Carver,spoke at a news conference in Newtown. He said that all the victimsdied of gunshot wounds, from an assault rifle, and all have beenidentified. The cause of death has been listed as homicide.

He has been at this job for 1/3 of a century. This is the worst he hasseen in his career, and the worst that any of his colleagues haveseen.

Official Info SourcesCT State Police264 official265 web site, and unofficial266 site.

CT State Police Press Releases.267

12/16/2012 ** UPDATE ** Newtown School Shooting12/15/2012 State Police Release Names of Victims in Newtown School

Shooting12/15/2012 State Police Investigate Newtown School Shooting

263 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/15/newtown-school-shooting-aftermath-live-updates#block-50ccea9c95cba457d7011c3b264 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Police265 http://www.ct.gov/despp/site/default.asphttp://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?a=4225&Q=494962&desppNAV_GID=2089266 http://www.cspmail.com/267 http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?a=4225&Q=494960&desppNav_GID=2089



The state has a hotline for volunteers. Please call 211 or 1-800-203-1234 to offer voluntary assistance in the wake of the tragedyat Sandy Hook Elementary School.268

Here are tips if you want to do something to help the victims.269

Assistance may include, but is not limited to, victims’ assistanceagencies, counselors, Religious or ministry services, dog therapy,transportation services, and any other type of support goods orservices.

According to one of the CT State Police press releases,270 QUOTE

“anyone who harasses or threatens the victims, victims’ familiesor witnesses of these horrific crimes, or who, in any mannerinterferes with the ongoing state or federal investigations will bereferred for state and/or federal prosecution to the fullest extentpermitted by law.

Harassment not only includes in-person contact, but alsocontact via the internet, social media, and telephone.”

Social media includes, but is not limited to, Facebook, Blogs,YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, and MySpace.

Harassment or interfering includes, but is not limited to, makingclaims of your involvement in the crime or making claims thathinder the advancement of the investigation.

UNQUOTE

This means that 99% of the news media talking heads need to beprosecuted for spreading bogus stories which waste police time.

Local News SourcesSources worth pursuing for more info:

268 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/15/newtown-school-shooting-aftermath-live-updates#block-50ccea9c95cba457d7011c3b269 http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=515572&A=4226270 http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?A=4226&Q=515570



Wikipedia; News media in CT,271 and major cities of adjacent states. Hartford Courant Newspaper.272

Newtown Bee Newspaper.273

Governor Thanks The World For Its Concern And Support State Police: Victims’ Families A Priority In Shooting Investigation President Obama’s Statement On The Shootings At Sandy Hook School Newtown Youth & Family Services Open For Emergency Counseling Details And Names Slow To Emerge In Wake Of School Shootings Gunman Opens Fire At Sandy Hook Schools; Fatality Reported Shootings Shock The Community; Parents Desperate For Information Shooting Reported Sandy Hook Elementary School

Newtown Hamlet Hub274

Other Major News Sources ABC Nightline275

MSNBC276

Newsday277

PIPL is a search engine for info about PEOPLE. Let’s look up thesurname LANZA in Newtown CT.278 Warnings: there can be multiplepeople with same name; the records could have incorrect age; thebasis we are using to find the person, might have incorrect info.

Here is an Adam Lanza on Facebook, and an Adam Lanza in LinkedIn, both of whom are obviously NOT the same person as theshooter.279

271 http://www.abyznewslinks.com/unitect.htmhttp://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/By_Region/U_S__States/Connecticut/Complete_Listhttp://www.usnpl.com/ctnews.php272 http://www.courant.com/273 http://www.newtownbee.com/274 http://hamlethub.com/Newtown275 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/276 http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/12/17/15979089-links-for-the-1217-trms277 http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/complete-coverage-sandy-hook-shootings-1.4334846278 https://pipl.com/search/?q=Lanza&l=Newtown+CT&sloc=&in=5279 https://www.facebook.com/adam.lanza.1http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-lanza/9/b/9a7



Lessons never learnedThese type events, where large numbers of people are killed in amass shooting, are pretty rare. It is unwise to propose policy basedon unusual events. Rather we should use statistics wisely, to rethinkpolicies, where bad stuff happens almost every day.

When seconds count, the police are minutes away. Weneed better first aid training, for what to do in that intervening time.

I think I have seen this before, what to do to escape a massshooter.280 However in the Newtown Elementary School, AuroraTheater, and other recent events, the victims were like fish in a barrelfor the shooter, there was no place for them to escape to, and no wayfor them to shoot back, thanks to the institution's building design, andour legislative environment.

Technology evolves, threats evolve.

With the 3D printer (costs a few $k) and a blue print downloaded fromthe Internet, anyone can be a gun manufacturer,281 including would-be terrorists. Right now it is a crappy gun, but that won’t be for long.The technology will improve.

Once upon a time there was a fear that there would be plastic gunsundetectable by metal detectors, but in 1988 Congress passed a lawmandating that all guns be detectable. It is illegal to make one, sellone, own one. This law has been renewed every time it expires, andit is coming up for renewal again soon.

But how can it be enforced with the 3D printers?

Fully automatic army weapons and armor piercing bullets are heavilyregulated by the feds.

280 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2012/12/17/active-shooter-what-you-can-do/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NationalTerrorAlertResourceCenter+%28National+Terror+Alert+Response+Center%29281 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/12/19/3d-printing-startup-makerbot-cracks-down-on-printable-gun-designs/



But the ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, with big clipmagazines, passed in 1994 could not be renewed in 2004 thanks toBush & Cheney opposition. Democrats plan to re-introduce avariation on this in 2013, and it sounds like they have support fromsome Republicans.

While the NRA is with Bush & Cheney on this, surveys have shownthat 75% of NRA members, and gun owners, favor passage of this.

Info communication formatting (more Dec 25+)I have a need to learn a new way of organizing my notes.Similar argument variations pop up via many voices in manycontexts. Sometimes I already have a partial refuting of thesearguments. Sometimes they are a bridge to better ideas. Then thereare statistics in support of various concepts, and knee jerk reactionphrases that really are not constructive.

I am thinking of small chunks of text on a web site, which are like thesubroutines of a program, which address common perspectives onthe big picture, may occasionally be re-written, within their narrowfocus themes. Each chunk can be connected to by hyper link or url.

The notion is conceptually similar to blogging.

Gun Control StatisticsThroughout these notes, I am quoting many sources regarding bothwhat various statistics say, and how people interpret those statistics,to support various arguments.

Add to the collection what CRS has found.282 CRS = CongressionalResearch Service, a Think Tank for Congress.283 I downloaded theNov 2012 CRS report on Gun Control, to study as my time permits.

Comparing Gun Deaths to Auto Deaths.284

282 https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/12/gun_control_crs.html283 While US Congress gets wonderful education via CRS GAO IG and Hearings, they often ignore all thatand vote strictly along party ideological grounds.284 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/american-gun-deaths-to-exceed-traffic-fatalities-by-2015.html



Making Safer Schools (More Jan 06+)Other institutions have security, which appears to be better than thatfor schools. Can we learn from the others?

Whether: We arm teachers, and train them accordingly; or Take 1/7 of police force off the streets to go in schools, train

them accordingly, and hire replacements; or Improve physical security of the school buildings.

All those ideas fly in the face of state and federal government trendsfor decades:Severely cut funding for education, teachers, law enforcement; andlet our schools fall apart along with other unfunded infrastructure, tothe point that we have bridges falling down.

California Senator Barbara Boxer introduced the Save Our SchoolsAct in response to the massacre in Newtown, Conn. The act wouldprovide federal funding to deploy National Guard troops at schoolsacross the country. The governor of each state would decide whetherand how to deploy the troops.

Boxer also introduced the School Safety Enhancement Act, whichwould increase funding for a federal grants program, from $30 millionto $50 million, to help fund school security measures, such asinstallation of metal detectors and surveillance cameras.

Also see in time line, when I note appearance of various legislativesolution attempts.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence,285 one of thecountry’s largest gun control advocacy groups, came out with anap,286 so people can see which Legislators have received donationsfrom NRA and similar organizations, which does not necessarily implybias.287

285 http://www.bradycampaign.org/286 http://giveusguncontrol.com/287 http://www.szsu.com/2013/01/06/app-shows-congress-members-who-accepted-gun-lobby-cash/



I have renamed my School Bus Abductions notes to now be SchoolScandal Abductions, to encompass a wider range of problems.In there, I have a Conclusions Summary, listing what I thinkneeds to be done to reduce the threats by rapists, pedophiles, andreckless adults, to children commuting between home and school.For example:

School bus stops should be lighted, so kids are never waiting inthe dark. Smoking should be prohibited there, because of kidswith breathing problems, and they are more at risk from secondhand smoke.

School buses should have cameras like those at traffic lights,where motorists violating the rules are automatically ticketed.

Penalties are a joke when a motorist hits a kid crossing at aschool bus. They should be at least as severe as a motoristspeeding through a road construction site.

There should be a GAO report identifying states which are themost risky for school children.

School buses should have green light to tell motorists when Okto go again.

That Conclusions Summary is now followed by a Summary of what Ithink are the best solutions to mass shootings, not just in schools,thanks to the thinking here.

We should think broadly, not how to prevent another Columbine, VATech etc. but what mitigation is needed against a spectrum of threats.

The author of these research notes, Alister William Macintyre, is not agun owner, so I do not have personal experience with the process bywhich gun owners go through background checks, fill out forms etc.although my info on the situation is more than a few articles andeditorials in the news media. I have watched hearings on C-Span,read relevant CRS GAO IG reports.288 Thus some complaints that

288 C-Span TV shows exactly what happens in Congress, as opposed to normal news media which tells uswhat they think we need to know, which may have no correlation in reality with what really happened.CRS = Congressional Research Service, a think tank for Congress.GAO = Government Accountability Office, which investigates all sorts of situations within governmentand our society, to serve Congress.IG = Inspector General. Most government departments and agencies have an office of IG, to audit thatorganization’s personnel are obeying the rules, and to root out waste fraud abuse and corruption, reportingwhat they find to the top of the agency, the top of Administration, and also Congress.



me, not being a gun owner, may be either biased, or ignorant, mayhave some partial merit.289 But this charge is also like saying thatmen and women cannot fully understand each other needs, people ofone age, color, ethnicity, religion, abilities or disabilities, areautomatically ignorant of any other than what they are. I believe thatSOME people have closed minds to people outside their personalrealities, but that this is not a universal pattern.

As I share elsewhere, this event is perhaps the 4th worst mass killingat a US school in 100 years. I believe that a more important focusthan protecting our schools against another such event 25 years fromnow one place in the nation, is to protect our schools from the dailyevents where children are assaulted, traumatized, victimized, andthere are killings rapes etc. vs. kids commuting between home andschool, where the level of violence is less than this event, but it iscontinuous.290

Schools should have a specific alarm to go to the police, via a landline, like a fire alarm, which is easy to trigger. They should notdepend on 911 call, or cell phones working. Remember in severalrecent natural disasters, the cell phones went out, the power wentout, if you did not have a land line, you were cut off fromcommunications.

Armed personnel on school property +Different skill sets are needed for different scenarios.

Defending a school, or other facility, from a surprise armedattack. Vets have the necessary skills. Lawyers, Police, andTeachers do not.

Dealing with minor discipline problems of kids being kids.Lawyers and Parents have the necessary skills. Police,Teachers, and Vets do not.

Performing the primary goals of the organization. Teachers canteach. Lawyers, Police, Vets can not. Similarly, operating a

289 http://aviationintel.com/2012/12/17/end-school-shootings-immedietly-here-is-how/290 See my research notes called School Bus Abductions, where I may change the name some time.Basically, the notion that School Buses are the safest way for kids to commute to school, is based on bogusstatistics, which exclude what happens to the kids outside of the bus, waiting on the bus, walking betweenbus and home.



Movie Theater, or a House of Worship. Different skills areneeded for different realities.

We have serious problems, where people who are not qualified for ajob, are used for multiple job functions in a facility, creating newproblems because of their lack of qualifications.

If society wants armed police inside schools, for specific purposes,then they should be trained to deal effectively with those purposes.

Similarly, police sent into nursing homes, need to know how to dealwith patients with common mental disorders.291

At the University level, we need to start classes for Police who will beworking in schools, or responding to schools. They need to know thatchildren are not little adults, so the measures they take against bigadults are not appropriate. They need to know what is appropriate,based on age gender disability etc. Issue graduation certificates withgrades earned in these classes, and copy to local school districts, soschool leadership can specifically ask for police who know what theyare doing. This should mitigate the problems with police misconductdirected towards children in the schools, but other remediation isneeded to provide quality protection of facilities from armed attacks.

While returning vets have excellent relevant skill sets, they also needaccess to relevant kinds of equipment, and periodic retraining, similarto what is provided for Air Marshalls and the National Guard.292

There need to be audits of buildings, and their security forces, toevaluate whether they are vulnerable to armed attack, able toeffectively combat them, what remediation is needed to improvedefenses, and what that would cost. These reports need details forpolicy maker leaders, but should be classified so that potentialattackers cannot use them as a road map for future assaults. All thevoters and parents need to be told is a list of schools which gotaudited, and which got grades of A B C D F with respect to theirsecurity for children.

291 http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ind-bill-would-mandate-police-Alzheimer-s-lessons-4179313.php292 http://aviationintel.com/2012/12/17/end-school-shootings-immedietly-here-is-how/



Major building complexes have lock boxes located near the building,but outside of it, containing blue prints and residency statistics. FireDepts have standard keys, local building management have keys. Inan emergency, the Fire Dept has needed info. On a monthly basis,building management reviews occupancy and updates what is there.Schools need a similar arrangement with their Police Depts so 911operators can look up how many students are there, ages,disabilities, how many faculty staff, and a map of the facility.

Arming teachers293 is like arming stewardesses. Do they carrythe gun on their person, where it can be grabbed by an assailant, oris it kept locked up, where they cannot get to it fast enough in anemergency?

Should every airline passenger be armed? After passing TSA inspection tomake sure they are NOT armed, they would be taken to a gun range on theairport, tested to make sure they have the requisite skills, then get issued agun to carry on the plane, turn back in when arrive at destination.

Would it have made sense for top school administrators to haveweapons, and be trained in their usage, or does that just add anotherplace where some person untrained in gun usage, can pick one upand go on a rampage?

Action is always faster than reaction. Principal’s gun would normallybe locked up, so dead before can get it out.

Let’s suppose in the school office there was a locked gun cabinet,periodically inspected by the police to verify the system is child proof.The Principal hears the gun shots, unlocks gun cabinet, takesweapon, goes out to confront whoever.

There are people who say everyone in the Aurora Theatre shouldhave been armed. But the theater was dark, and smoke added. Howknow which shooter is the bad guy?

293 http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8926102http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/12/19/15newtown-arms.h32.html?tkn=OWLFd82hx29j2T3clmOl9arGSTUF8EtdSlYP&cmp=SOC-EDIT-GOO



However all these school shootings and not one has been stopped bythe police. Meanwhile, there is at least one instance of an armedteacher stopping an in progress school shooting:http://www.davekopel.com/2a/othwr/principal&gun.htm

At the 2002 Appalachian Law School shooting, it was a couple ofarmed students that stopped the active shooter:http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/3-5-04.html

Plus, if I remember correctly, in the Arizona shooting which gotRepresentative Gifford, it was local citizens, who understood guns,who took down the shooter, not the police.

Under the US Constitution, the public is supposed to have the right tobe armed. When seconds count, the police are minutes away, sowithin those minutes, the citizenry needs to be able to act. However,many communities have banned guns on campus, making themundefended target zones for the unworthy people.

When we view murder statistics, remember that many people arekilled, where their deaths do not go into those statistics. Forexample, when the police shoot someone, the statistics immediatelysay the person must have done something bad to deserve it, withoutany need for any proof. Their deaths do not get included in thestatistics.

Here is some info researched by Alan Lovejoy on G+.

Prohibition laws have no effect. That's why it's so easy to buymarijuana or cocaine. Even in high security prisons!

The common claim is that 'the US is the most violent country in theworld,' or that 'the murder rate in the US is higher than just aboutanywhere else because of the prevalence of guns.' Such claims arefalse.

Current Worldwide Homicide/Murder Rate:http://chartsbin.com/view/1454

Firearm Ownership Density:



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

Yes, the US has the highest firearm ownership density. However, it'shomicide rate (4.2 per 100k) is roughly half the worldwide average(7.6 per 100k,) and other nations with relatively high firearmownership densities have far lower murder rates than does the US.

Mexico, for example, forbids bearing firearms outside the owner'shome and has a firearm ownership density 6 times lower than that ofthe US (15% versus 88.8%,) but it's murder rate (16.9 per 100k) is 4times higher than the US (4.2 per 100k.) The number of homicidesper 100k gun owners in the US is 4.73, whereas the number ofhomicides per 100k gun owners in Mexico is 112.57, which is 24times higher than the rate of homicides per gun owner in the US.That alone falsifies the claim that the density of gun ownershipis the problem.

However, Mexico has a serious problem with both Drug Cartels andFreedom Fighters. It may not be fair to use statistics of a nationwhich is in the midst of internal wars, like Iraq, Mexico, etc. with whatmakes sense for a nation which is pretty much at peace, internally.

A Texas school district has legalized it for teachers to carry guns.294

Fortress Schools +Entrance to school should be better protected … bullet proofwindows, bars, basically to slow down someone trying to break in.The police to be called when they start doing so.

Classroom Doors retro-fitted like Airplane Pilot Doors. Kidsneed to get to the bathroom. Will they need military escorts?

Man Trap Entrance so no one can get in, unless they pass aguard post. This system needs to make sure there can be fast exit ifthere is a fire, without an insider able to help an enemy get in like theAurora Theater scenario. There, we now know the shooter parkedcar in back, came in with all the patrons, went to the Emergency Exit,

294 http://www.secretsofthefed.com/texas-school-district-will-let-teachers-carry-guns/https://plus.google.com/u/0/113593203112351252307/posts/8rWiYDfZQT2



propped the door open, went to car, got armaments, returned toshoot up the place.

I believe entrances and exits need to be thought through carefullyfrom several perspectives: Exit the building in an emergency, not have bottleneck if there is

only one entrance exit, and the fire is between you and it. Control who can enter the building. Have some kind of alarm system if someone uses emergency exit. UPS battery system to keep emergency exit lights on, after a

power outage. We remember from Sandy storm, that when NYChad power outage, residence buildings were pitch dark, no internallights in stair wells, no light coming from occasional windows.

I remember several years ago, GAO did an audit of Social SecurityAdministration Security. One of the things the auditors did was propopen emergency exit, then roll out trollies stacked with computermagnetic tapes, containing information on millions of Americans. Intheir report to Congress, they showed how the internal securitycamera placement was such that building security never knew whenanyone was using the emergency exits.

Social Security management did not know the tapes had been takenuntil Congress made the GAO report public. It then transpires thatthe government worker union had been reporting similar securityproblems for decades. Decision was to not bother fixing any of thisbecause a replacement building was coming for Social Security, butguess what, the new building was designed by the same people whodesigned the old building.

Metal Detectors at entrances to schools. That may makesense when kids are coming in at start of classes, but are thefacilities to be left manned during the day, when random visitorsmight arrive?

Many schools have guards armed with lethal and so-called non-lethalweapons, who are apparently untrained in how to deal with children,particularly disabled children, which leads to massive abuse.



Hundreds of people have been killed in America, with non-lethalweapons.

Armed but Unqualified personnel on school property +

Police patrols on school property. Police on duty at theschools, need to be trained how to deal with the kids. Children arenot little adults. Their minds and bodies are still developing. It is notappropriate to deal with a kid being a kid, by using tactics that policewould use on a serious adult crime. But yet, that is exactly how somepolice are behaving. They use pepper spray inside enclosed schoolcorridors. They use tasers on children. The charge in a taser stungun is designed for an adult target. When used on a small child it islike over-kill. They put handcuffs on them. They deny them accessto parents or lawyers. They conduct strip searches at gun point.

What the children are being taught by all this, is that might makesright, the constitution has gone through a shredder, you are guilty ifthe police say so.

Change our Ideology+

Our society screen people psychologically, so guns donot get to mentally sick people. This will be seen as a hugeimposition on privacy, if we all are subjected to some kind of tests,especially if the testing is to be conducted by the lowest paid bidders,like airport security, or for pipeline safety inspectors, you can be anilliterate high school drop out and get that job.295

Some on the right are saying the cause of the school shootings is thelack of God in our schools, has adversely affected society.If they are right, then I think mandating the Sikh religion in all publicschools and banning Christian Jew Muslim, would be the best statereligion, because of the history of religious wars. No one religion isclear of this, but some have a better track record than others. But I

295 As detailed in my Indy Boom notes.



don’t believe they are correct. Houses of Worship get attacked all thetime, usually by people of a different religion, or ethnicity.

Common Sense Gun Safety+We need to stop using the terminology “Gun Control” which sounds tosome people like “Repeal the Constitution.” There is a dividebetween rural and urban America, liberals and conservatives, mainstreet and Washington DC, how we talk about guns, how we thinkabout guns.

In rural America, many people grow up around guns, they arehunters, farmers, gun collectors, with good education respectingproper use of guns. Politicians need to say to them:

“Your 2nd amendment gun rights will be respected.” These maniacs doing mass killings, is a different topic. We need to limit access to weapons which can rapidly fire

many bullets without reloading. We need to limit access to guns for people who:

o Have been convicted of a felony;o Have a mental illness not yet cured;o Have a record of perpetrating domestic violence;o Are suspected of planning a terrorist attack;

Politicians need to make this clear, in a climate of negative ads.

Some people say they want these super weapons to defend theirhomes against criminals, but they really want them to protect againstthe government in case it turns oppressive. That theory has beeninvalid for maybe 100 years, with the advance of weaponstechnology, and the surveillance state. If the President sends troopsinto our homes, assault weapons won’t help. We’d be hit by “non-lethal” weapons via artillery, which knocks us senseless, and mayseriously damage our homes in the process.

Secondary Guns MarketThe VA shooter had been declared, by a Judge, to be mentally ill, butthat info did not get into the hands of the people doing backgroundchecks. Info sharing needs to be improved.



The Aurora shooter had been found by the University to be a seriousthreat to people, for mental health reasons, but the University did notwarn the larger community. Aurora was 20 miles from Columbine,where many parents did inform the police over 1 year in advance,what the kids were planning. Those boys were also in trouble withJuvenile Judge at the same time. No action was taken. So not onlyis info sharing needed, something constructive needs to be done withthe shared info.

Nancy Lanza, the mother of the shooter, had apparently passedbackground check, was allowed to be a gun collector, but she chosenot to invest in a gun safe, or other system to prevent her son fromhaving access to the guns. If the family, had been subjected to abackground check, it would have been discovered that Adam wasmentally ill, handling guns. This should not be acceptable.

I saw on TV news that CT had implemented a ban on assaultweapons, but taken no steps to get them out of the hands of civilianswho already had them, like Nancy Lanza. But other news media saidthat the ban did not apply to the actual weapons Nancy had.

In many school shooting incidents, mentally ill children got hands onguns owned by family members, where the registered owners of theguns had passed background checks. The checks need to identifywhether there are unstable people in the house hold, and whether thestorage of the guns are such that the unstable people do not haveaccess.

Any gun owner may sell to anyone, without a background check.Similarly, gun shows, sales on Internet.

How would we enforce otherwise? Do we need to register guns likewith the Motor Vehicle License division, have a pink slip showing thatthe new owner has passed the background check?



Stupid and Bad IdeasAccording to the news media, various people have seriouslyproposed some ideas, which I consider to be the rantings of lunatics,who must be mentally ill.296

Door Locks and Buzzers,297 which are not going to slow downthe determined maniac.

Teach children from babies to pre teenagers, to rush against amaniac armed with a semi-automatic weapon, which is shootingbullets at them.

Arm all the little children, with hand guns which shoot toybullets, so their little hands do not suffer the recoil of real guns.

Fire all women, and only have men in the work place, on theassumption that men are more likely to behave rationally incombating irrational attackers.

Turn the other cheek, praying, while the maniac is killing us. Form a commission to discuss the lack of God in our secular

society, a society which may have more houses of worship perpopulation than any nation on planet Earth.

Schools across America (Jan 06+)All across America, individual schools, and their security protectionpersonnel, are questioning how they could be better able to resist anattack like what happened at Sandy Hook in Newtown.298

Their options are impacted by existing security systems at the localschools, experiences of their personnel with other incidents, and thequality of information, via news media, about what exactly happenedin this latest incident.

New Orleans had a crisis response plan which gathered dust asKatrina approached, and was totally ignored during the crisis. Allsorts of institutions follow the New Orleans model.

After the uproar, schools will return to being forced to cut costs.

296 http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/12/19/right-wing-ideas-to-stop-another-newtown/297 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/school-safety-at-what-cost/2012/12/18/df2ee1ce-493c-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html?wprss=rss_on-parenting298 http://richmondregister.com/localnews/x964866052/After-Sandy-Hook



Time Line Sandy Hook ElementaryMap of places mentioned in the news stories.299

Time Line sources:

CT State Police initial press release300 subsequently updated. Hartford Courant Newspaper.301

Newtown Hamlet Hub.302

Legislation can changeAccording to various news media, legislation is often the result of atraumatic event in the news.

After Columbine CO, Illinois demanded that schools practiceannual drills against a variety of possible disasters.

After Sandusky PA, many states demanded that witnessesmust report beyond employer superiors, and employersuperiors must also report beyond the institution.303

After Aurora CO, Connecticut tried gun law changes.

1989 Mass Shooting at an Elementary School (add Jan 09+)At Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton California, a gunmanfired 100 rounds into a school yard where children were playing forrecess. Five children died, 27 children and a teacher were wounded,then the gunman took his own life.304

National reaction to this event, led to the Federal Assault WeaponsBan of 1994, which was intended to ban assault weapons, and highcapacity magazines in the hands of civilians. That has not exactly

299 http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/graphic-sandy-hook-shooting-1.4336399300 http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?A=4226&Q=515554301 http://www.courant.com/http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-timeline-mass-killings-20121214,0,7013661.storyhttp://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,5043872.story302 http://hamlethub.com/Newtownhttp://hamlethub.com/newtown-life/cat/police-blotter/23682-newtown-update303 I wrote up lots about Sandusky, and people like him, in my Child Sex Abuse ScandalEpidemic notes, and now I am writing similar stuff, involving a different group of perpetrators, in mySchool Bus Abduction notes.304 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/21/another-massacre-s-gun-law-lesson-from-stockton-calif-survivors.html?google_editors_picks=true



worked, and there has been massive discussion and speculation howcome.

1998 Lanza family arrives in Newtown CT (more Dec 26+)They supposedly moved here from Illinois.

The shooter, Adam, allegedly attended that Elementary School. If hisalleged mental problems did not mess up what grade he was in atwhat age, then since he is 20 at time of shooting, that would mean hewas there, as a student, no later than 2002.

At some point there is a dispute with the school system, and Momstarts home schooling Adam. Mom’s professional background varieswith different news media:

Kindergarten Teacher Substitute Teacher Neither Background in Finance, taking some time off

2007+ (more Jan-08+)Adam caught the attention of High School staff in 2007, notconsidering him a threat, but at risk of being a victim, so a HighSchool Psychologist was assigned to help him.305

In 2008, Daniel Gardner’s book "The Science of Fear," comes out,which says; "kids are far safer inside school walls than outside." Theevidence compiled in the federal government's annual survey,Indicators of School Crime and Safety, consistently shows that "astudent's risk of being murdered in school was de minimis—so tiny itwas effectively zero."306 No doubt this data is contaminated byexcluding violence upon children by the school authorities and policepatrolling the schools.

However, in my School Scandal research notes, I show thatsecurity for school children commuting between home and school isso inadequate, that the commute is now a playground for pedophiles

305 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578183910797348422.html306 http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/18/a-911-for-schools-lets-hope-not



and rapists. If a child is to be trusted to commute between home andschool with no security, then perhaps that child should also be trustedto carry a gun, and be trained in its usage. There could be aseparate check in, at the school, for the guns to be locked up by childand local security officer(s), much like the dual locks of bank depositboxes. When child ready to leave, child’s key, and that of a schoolofficial, are used so the kid is armed for the voyage home.

That would be a compromise between the viewpoint that kids are tobe protected by adults when they are at home or in school, but in theabsence of such protection, then they need a system such as Idescribe.

President of the National Association of Police Officers and BostonPolice Officer Thomas Nee is a member of VP Joe Biden's guncontrol task force, which was created by President Obama in theaftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.307 Nee'sson, Joseph Nee, was convicted in 2008 for planning to commit massmurder of students and teachers at Marshfield High School inMassachusetts, similar to that of Columbine in 1999.308 Afterspending nine months in prison, Nee's conviction was upheld by theSupreme Judicial Court.309 Nee may have planned to carry outmurders of his classmates with his father's service gun.310

The notion that one child may have got his hands on a father’s gun,issued by the Boston Police dept, is then used by some people toargue that police officers should not have their weapons when theyare off duty.311

Mom and Dad got divorced in 2007, or 2009, depending on whichnews report is more accurate.

307 See: 2012 Dec 19+20, 2013 Jan-06.308 http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/15/judge_convicts_ex_student_in_school_plot/309 http://www.patriotledger.com/news/cops_and_courts/x1673647612/Conviction-upheld-Marshfield-High-bomb-plotter-Joseph-Nee-insists-he-did-right310 http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/01/07/son-of-biden-gun-control-task-force-member-convicted-of-conspiracy-to-commit-school-massacre-n1483006http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/20/boston_police_eye_alleged_marshfield_plot_suspect/311 https://plus.google.com/u/0/103028459671171670815/posts/34JXs88RGvD



Peter was paying Nancy $200k a year, or approx $10k a month, inalimony, and was to pay for college and car for the boys.

It sounds like Adam was with Mom, living in Newtown CT; while Ryanwas with Dad, living in Newtown CT or Hoboken NJ, or both.

If the TV pictures are accurate, regarding their Newtown CT home,they were living in a Mansion.

2010+ (more Jan-08+)Aug 2010: There is a school shooting, which conspiracy theoristswould have you believe did not make the news because it wascontrary to alleged propaganda that is out there by opponents ofhaving armed police in school.312

Well, they got their info from the news media, which shoots down thenotion that it did not make the news.I am an opponent of IGNORANT armed police in school, meaningpolice who are IGNORANT of how to deal with children doing trivialmischief. I recognize that police must learn severe measures torestrain ADULT criminals, but I disagree, that the same heavy forceof arms should be used against small children. I believe that thereneeds to be training for people who will be using police tactics againstchildren, so they know what is appropriate behavior of children, andadults supposedly supervising them.

In 2011: Annette Fuentes comes out with the book: When theSchoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse.313

June 2012: In Phoenix Az, a 14 year old shot an armed intruder.314

The police say the boy did exactly the right thing to protect hisyounger siblings.

Dec-10: Victoria Soto, one of the teachers killed at the school,appears to have had an ‘in memoriam’ Facebook page created in her

312 http://redpillreport.net/2013/01/06/school-shooting-in-tennessee-that-national-media-did-not-report/313 http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/08/will-newtown-lead-to-lockdown-high314 http://www.examiner.com/article/14-year-old-phoenix-boy-shoots-armed-intruder-while-babysitting-siblings



name four days before the shooting.315 There is a simple explanationfor this, which does not involve any conspiracy theory. Have youever paid any attention to date time stamp of your e-mail, yourdocuments you update, the time date of your PC. That info can getincorrect, then be perpetuated in many things you post on theInternet. It depends on the Internet, or other software which you areinteracting with, what is used to generate the date.

Dec-14: CRS came out with a report, which I subsequently located,and downloaded, calling my copy:

CRS316 Gun Control 2012 Nov317 118 pages

Dec 14 Fri MassacreAdam Lanza, 20, killed his Mother Nancy J. Lanza, at their home inNewtown CT, (Fairfield County), then drove 2 miles to the schoolwhere his Mom may have worked, as a substitute teacher, SandyHook Elementary School, forced his way into the school, carryinghand guns and a semi-automatic assault rifle, where he fired approx100 rounds, into two classrooms near the front of the school, thenkilled himself. Adam was carrying his brother Ryan Lanza'sidentification, which initially led to confusion about his identity.

The school shooting happened around 9.30 am. The police received911 call(s) about the event, and responded rapidly.

5 minutes into the event, the police called for 2 ambulances, not yetrealizing the scope of the devastation.318

The police formed teams. Some took children to safety, otherssearched the school for any second shooter, any children hiding. Theschool was secured, and then crime squads began an investigation.

The police found people hiding in a closet, in all sorts of unlikelyplaces. They realized the city did not have enough ambulances nor

315 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/316 CRS = Congressional Research ServiceFAS = Federation of American Scientists317 2012 Dec 25 downloaded https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf thanks tohttps://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/12/gun_control_crs.html318 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/19/16019514-call-for-everything-police-scanner-recording-reveals-early-moments-of-newtown-tragedy?lite



EMS personnel for all the victims, needed to call for help fromadjacent cities.319

7 adults (including the shooter) and 18 children were pronounceddead at the school. 2 more students died at Danbury hospital.

The primary crime scene is the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A secondary crime scene is the Yogananda Street residence of Adamand Nancy Lanza, where Mrs. Lanza was found dead, when policewent to the home of the gunman, found at the school.

All the dead victims were identified overnight Dec-14 to 15, throughteam effort of local state and federal law enforcement, and the stateMedical Examiner.

A state trooper was assigned to each family of victims, to see thatthey get whatever info they need, and expedite any communicationneeded between law enforcement and the victim families.The families have requested no press interviews.

Teams of investigators are pursuing every lead.

Dec 14-16 (More Dec 29+)Dec-14: A security consultant on Fox News says that this shootingwill be a 9-11 for schools, generating security for schools as braindead as we have for airport security.320

Where does the news media get info which directly contradicts theofficial story, when it comes out?321

We now know that a lone gunman forced his way into the school,there was a lot of shooting, leaving dead 6 faculty, 20 children, inwhich some of the children actually died in transit to hospital aid.

But the Newtown Bee quotes the dead principal:322 QUOTE

319 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/19/16019514-call-for-everything-police-scanner-recording-reveals-early-moments-of-newtown-tragedy?lite320 http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/18/a-911-for-schools-lets-hope-not321 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/27/sandy-hook-huge-hoax-and-anti-gun-psy-op/



Sandy Hook School Principal Dawn Hochsprung told The Beethat a masked man entered the school with a rifle and startedshooting multiple shots – more than she could count – that went“on and on.”

UNQUOTE

If she was able to get any phone call out, it would have been one ofthe 911 calls. This story implies that after she was one of the firstadults to be dead, she had an interview with the Bee.

The Newtown Bee‘s article was taken down on Monday December17th. Another plausible explanation is that a reporter mistook anotherteacher, or the vice-principal for the principal.

However, some stories sound like they were part of a narrative of aconspiracy, planned in advance, to have this shooting occur, thenblame on people who would be dead on a timely basis.323

Only one person was wounded. Everyone else who was shot waskilled. How could Adam Lanza achieve such deadly accuracy, in sucha short length of recorded time?324 Well I do not know that only oneperson was wounded. The news stories are so far over the map, Idon’t know what to believe.

One brave teacher, Kaitlin Roig, bundled a bunch of children into abathroom and locked the door. What’s interesting about her testimonyto ABC News is that when police arrived and asked her to open thedoor, she refused, saying that “if they were really cops, they’dknow where to find keys to open the door.” In addition, sherequested that they slide their badges under the door. Theshooting appears to have barely ended when men knocked on thatbathroom door and told Ms. Roig they were police.325

If it is true that Adam’s 24-year-old brother, Ryan Lanza, hadn’t seenhis brother since 2010,326 how was the younger brother able to have

322 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/323 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/324 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/325 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/326 http://news.yahoo.com/police-world-wonder-conn-shooting-motive-080207412.html



Ryan’s identity card on his person at the school shooting?327 Do youremember every moment of your life for the past several years?When questioned, we will forget details, until our memory getsproperly jogged.

In the aftermath of this tragedy, there are vigils nationwide.President Obama attends one Dec-16, which gets national newscoverage, where many others were not open to the media.

Dec-15, state police release identities of the dead.328

Dec-16 Sun +Dec-16: US Supreme Court Judges sometimes show up where theyanswer questions from the news media and others. Justice Scaliawas recently asked about the 2nd Amendment.329

According to TV and other News Media, he said the 2nd Amendmentapplies to hand held weapons. That does not apply to cannons,tanks, warships. It does include hand held anti-aircraft devices whichcan launch stinger missiles.330

The 2nd Amendment occasionally gets to a US Supreme Court ruling.In recent years, they have declared that:

People are allowed to have guns in homes, for self protection,in a condition where they can be used immediately, as needed.

It is Constitutional to prohibit certain groups of people to not beallowed to have guns, and to prohibit them in certaingeography.

Dec-16: There are indications the police have an idea what themotive for the shooting was. They have NOT released this to thenews media, so there is wild speculation.

Here is one: Mom was a Doomsday Prepper, had home schooledAdam with the notion that the world would end Dec-21, so Adam was327 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-story-spins-out-of-control/328 http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?A=4226&Q=515562329 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/12/16/Under-the-US-Supreme-Court-Scalia-in-08-Right-to-bear-arms-is-not-unlimited/UPI-80201355648700/330 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/15/yes_we_can_have_sane_gun_control/singleton/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/jeffrey-toobin-second-amendment.html



doing his civic duty of killing people before they suffered the worsetorment of the world ending.

Dec-17 Mon + (More Dec 26+)Dec-17: Many schools, nationwide, have grief counselors. Some ofthem are on stand-by in case children around the nation are in needof their services.

Dec-17: Around the USA, local news reports on local police, localschools reviewing “What should we do, to prevent anything similarhappening here, like what happened in Sandy Hook?” and it soundsto me like most of them are as clueless and one dimensional as mostof the talking heads on TV news talk shows.

Dec-17: An age 11 sixth-grader in Kearns, Utah brought an unloadedhandgun to his elementary school on Monday, for protection, andalso for inappropriate usage, reportedly at the urging of hisparents.331

The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out ofhis backpack during recess Monday morning.

“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he wasgoing to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow6th grade students.

Granite School District officials say students didn’t notifyteachers about the weapon until 3 p.m.

Dec-17: Newtown is a tipping point for many working families,thinking about how much time they spend away from their children.332

Dec-17: Rapes are up 50% in Australia since the 1996 gun ban wentinto effect.333 That makes sense. The victims are less able to defendthemselves. However, statistics can be highly misleading, influencedby:

331 http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/18/1353971/utah-elementary-school-student-brings-gun-to-school-for-protection-post-sandy-hook/332 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/newtown-a-working-parents-tipping-point/2012/12/17/f84a457c-4883-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html?wprss=rss_on-parenting333 https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/sexual-assault-up-almost-50-in-australia-since-the-1996-gun-ban/



Reporting … most of Jerry Sandusky and Catholic Churchvictims were not believed, and only recently the FBI hasclassed rape of boys as being rape. Many institutions cover uprape, victimizing the whistle blowers instead. I seriously doubtpolice rape of people in their custody gets reported.

Definitions … in some nations, domestic abuse victims arecounted as one instance, regardless of how many incidents.

In some nations, and cultures, there is no such thing as rape,because the victims are 2nd class citizens.

Dec-18 (More Dec 28+)

Dec-18: A potential copy cat is arrested. A 14 year old boy created aFacebook page, using the name of a female classmate, then heposted threat of planning to shoot up his school. He is charged withmaking a terrorist threat.334 He should also be charged withsomething regarding using the female’s name, such as Identity Theft,or framing someone for a crime.

Dec-18: Cerebus is getting out of the Bushmaster gun business.Amendment II, a company that specializes in lightweight body armor,says "sales have gone through the roof" for its line of bulletproofbackpacks for kids.335

Dec-18: Autopsy reports came out on shooter & Mom.336 Mom wassleeping in bed when she got shot dead. It will be approx 1 ½ weeksfor Lanza Tox results, to find out what drugs in their systems. Theyare looking, in particular for drugs associated with mental health, andillegal drugs.

Dec-18: Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National SecurityStudies and a former Justice Department official, explains why policeofficers should be stationed in every school in the USA.337

334 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Facebook-Threat-Long-Island-School-Bay-Shore-184152321.html335 http://theweek.com/article/index/237973/the-connecticut-school-massacre-are-investors-backing-away-from-the-gun-business336 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-sandy-hook-school-massacre-unanswered-questions-and-missing-information/5316776337 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/12/carrie-cordero-on-physical-security-at-schools/



This opinion is both held by many people, and also opposed by manypeople. In my opinion, detailed elsewhere, whoever you put inschools for physical security, needs to have relevant training,because we currently have a mountain of abuses by people inschools for physical security, without relevant training in how to dealwith children, let alone what is in the US Constitution.

Dec-18: The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence338 organized anews conference at the Capitol, in Washington.339 In attendancewere families of victims from recent mass shooting incidents,including:

Aurora Theater Columbine High School Sandy Hook Elementary

Afterwards, the families attended a White House meeting.

Some of the families expressed the opinion that the police spendyears training to do things right. I think that is a mistaken opinion.The police are supposed to be trained in a lot more than weapons.

How long does the National Guard spend training so they are readyfor their mission? An annual summer of a couple weeks, and a fewweekends during the year. I can’t believe that proper gun training,and occasional refresher practice, would require as much time as theNational Guard needs.

Dec-19 Wed + (more Dec-25+)

Dec-19: Don’t kid around about doing evil. It can get you arrested asa potential terrorist.340

Dec-19: The US Congress Democratic Gun Control Task Force is tobe led by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Ca), a vet, member of NRA, andwho carries hunting rifles as an avid sportsman in California.341

338 http://wearebetterthanthis.org/339 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57560612/newtown-parents-reject-nra-plan/340 http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/12/blount_county_man_jailed_after.html



Dec-19: President Obama pressed lawmakers to reinstate a ban onmilitary-style assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyersto skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity ammunitionclips. A task force, led by VP Biden, will be crafting additionalrecommendations.342

Dec 19: A Denver mother who believed her daughter was beingbullied at school drove into the school's parking lot and threatenedfour girls with a gun, according to an arrest document.343 Mom hasbeen arrested, while the bullies redouble their harassment of thedaughter. There needs to be counseling for parents … if your child isbeing bullied at school, and the school and police won’t do anythingabout it, what is your next reasonable effective recourse? You couldhire private detectives to tail them, find out their home addresses,then have a lawyer sue the parents.

Dec-19: CNN Piers Morgan attacks guest Larry Pratt, director of GunOwners of America, instead of debating his position. This leads to abacklash against Morgan.344

Dec 20: The gun violence task force, led by VP-Biden, held its firstmeeting.345 Attendees included:

Attorney General Eric Holder; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Law enforcement officials.

Pres Obama had requested that the task force producerecommendations by the end of January.

341 http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22226508/california-combat-vet-avid-hunter-nra-member-lead342 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/obama-gun-violence-task-force_n_2331238.html343 http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/denver-mom-confronts-daughters-bullies344 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20838729https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaHWBlVzNoc&feature=youtu.be345 http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/20/us/connecticut-school-shooting/index.html



Dec-20: off-topic, Michigan closes schools 2 days early, becauseDec-21 is the end of the world for so many believers in variousconspiracy theories.346

Dec-21 + (more Dec 28+)

Dec-21 9.30 am, around the nation church bells ring 26 times tohonor the 20 children and 6 teachers who died. A few 27 times toinclude the shooter’s mom, and very few 28 to include the shooter.347

Dec-21: The many moments of silence will include Friday of ceasefire in on-line shooting games.

Dec-21: There is a movement asking that the names of killers beblanked out of news media, and social media.348 Some of thesepeople are in it for the fame, so let’s deny them that.

Dec-21: a gunman killed three people and wounded three statetroopers before being killed in a shootout in Frankstown Township,Pennsylvania.349

Dec 21: According to the New York Times,350 since 2005 more than22,000 weapons have been bought, in the USA, by people who werelater deemed to have been disqualified because of previous criminalbehavior or mental illness.351

Dec-21: Here is more on the controversy over how come manyAmericans are at the same time,352 apparently:

Shocked at the killing of 20 children at the Sandy Hookelementary school;

346 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/20/16042653-newtown-mayan-end-of-world-rumors-prompt-michigan-officials-to-close-33-schools?lite347 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/21/16045403-the-sounds-of-silence-church-bells-toll-26-times-to-honor-newtown-victims?lite348 http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5481349 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/21/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-idUSBRE8BI1BV20121221350 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/us/gaps-in-fbi-data-undercut-background-checks-for-guns.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0351 We do not have good statistics on the volume of guns in the hands of police with serious records ofabuse.352 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/12/glenn-greenwald-on-disparate-reactions-to-newtown-and-to-children-killed-in-drone-strikes/



Cheering the killing of many more children around the world byUS government drones.

Many people, myself included, do not believe the US military and CIAis deliberately targeting children. I believe the mass murder ofthousands of children by US drones is due to:

Bad intelligence and lack of cultural understanding by USoperatives, that homes in poor nations are often filled withextended family. So if you kill an enemy while they are in theirhome, you are also killing women and children.

If you shoot drones at a funeral, or at first respondersresponding to anything, you will get many more innocents thanyour real targets. This is something that many in the CIA andUS military do not yet seem to understand.

Intelligence about targets supplied by mercenary mentality …pay a reward for informants, who often are more interested inthe money than the truth. So they label, as enemies of theUSA, people who have failed to pay protection money to theinformants, or people who the informants don’t like, for reasonstotally irrelevant to the USA.

Further, I have seen, and believe, statistics that when a military hasboots on the ground some place, for every enemy soldier killed, thereare 10-15 innocent civilians killed. The ratio with drone usage, by theUSA, does not appear to be nearly that bad.

Dec-21: A 6-year-old boy in Silver Spring was suspended forallegedly pointing his finger like a gun at another child, and saying“pow”.353 In a letter sent to the parents, a school administrator wrote,“He threatened to shoot a student.”354 Child Psychologists argue thatchildren that age cannot formulate such intent, and children pointing afinger is not the threat the school claims it is.

The boy’s version of events is that during the incident after which hewas suspended, his friend - not him - said "pow," and he pointed ather to tell her to stop. The parents got an attorney, and the schoolreversed the suspension, and expunged the boy’s permanent school

353 http://silverspring.patch.com/articles/reports-silver-spring-boy-suspended-from-school-for-gun-gesture354 http://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2013/01/08/heading-off-a-steep-cliff/



record of the claim that he threatened to shoot another student, theincident which got him suspended.355 There were other allegedincidents, where the school refuses to give details to the parents, sopresumably his record has not been expunged for all of them.

Dec-21 NRA (more Jan 06+)

Dec-21: The NRA comes out with announcement showing that theyare more interested in pushing their agenda than in solving theproblems.356 Many organizations similarly have demonstrated thisattitude.

Basically the NRA says the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, iswith a good guy with a gun, so there needs to be armed police in allschools.

Well, it needs to be a good guy with a gun who knowswhat he is doing to deal with the particular scenario.Armed police sit at doors to school, and bad guy comes in a window,then ambushes the police. Or if the armed police can be seen thruwindows, sniper can get some of them.

I have seen estimates that the NRA proposal would consume 1/7 thepolice force, to implement.

Teachers, who have had gun training, are already in the classrooms.That training, with appropriate state government law support, wouldinclude how best to protect the kids, slow down the gunman in theminutes until the police can get there; and not let unauthorized peopleget at the gun.

The NRA spokesperson says the news media and violent videogames are to blame. Do they really believe that if we got rid of thenews media, social media, Internet, violent games, that all would bepeaceful in the world?

355http://www.wtop.com/41/3178295/6-year-old-back-in-school-suspension-clearedhttp://www.wave3.com/story/20491759/kindergartener-suspended-for-making-a-gun-gesturehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-toy-guns-can-be-good-for-kids/2013/01/07/8ec6b6ec-5906-

11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html?wprss=rss_on-parenting356 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/21/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-idUSBRE8BI1BV20121221



I have stated several times and places that different skill sets areneeded for different scenarios.

Defending a school, or other facility, from a surprise armedattack. Vets have the necessary skills. Lawyers, Police,and Teachers do not.

Dealing with minor discipline problems of kids being kids.Lawyers and Parents have the necessary skills, andknow-how. Police, Teachers, and Vets do not.

Performing the primary goals of the organization. Teacherscan teach. Lawyers, Police, Vets can not. Similarly,operating a Movie Theater, or a House of Worship. Differentskills are needed for different realities.

Security Mirror is when a person defines security based onwhat they know how to do, ignoring what other people may beable to do. This is one reason why we have an epidemic ofcyber security breaches, at public and private organizations, allover the world. There are other reasons.

Security Smoke is when people propose solutions, whichare disconnected from any sane reality, where the people andtheir proposals are more important than the end mission.

o For example, many US states mandate security on schoolbuses which are exactly the kind of systems which kill andmaim children in crashes, as found by national safetytesting, which have also found systems which workeffectively, but are illegal in most US states.

Security Theater is when it is more important to send amessage that we are doing a good job with security, than toactually do a good job. Airport security is a prime example.

o Sometimes “state of art” security is the same as braindead no real security.357

Dec 21: American Federation of Teachers President RandiWeingarten has described the call to station guards with guns atschools "both irresponsible and dangerous." In a written statement

357 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/this_weeks_over.htmlhttps://www.schneier.com/essay-401.html



issued Friday, Weingarten said, "Schools must be safe sanctuaries,not armed fortresses.358

Jan-06: Regarding NRA proposal that we should post armed guardsin schools, a retired high school principal in Vermont posted thisresponse:359

"Columbine had an armed guard on duty; Virginia Tech had an armed police force on campus; and Fort Hood is an army camp."

Jan-07: Reason shares debate on correlation and causation.360

When a nation has both high volume of homicide, and high volume ofguns in the hands of alleged good guys, which came first? It is non-obvious to most people, pure speculation.

Dec-23 (More Dec 27+) Journalists join the story

Dec-23: Several journalists have become part of the story, instead ofimpartially covering the story. In Britain, irresponsible behavior by thenews media, such as with phone hacking, has led to a reduction offreedom of the press. Media in the USA seem to be asking for similarpenalties and restrictions.

On NBC Meet the Press, David Gregory held up a 30 bulletmagazine, asking the NRA if limiting magazines to 5 or 10 bulletswould make a difference. NRA spokesperson Mr. Lapierre said itwould make no difference.

As we have seen from past legislation:

If you ban specific weapons, then manufacturers make gunswhich do the same thing, but have different names.

If you ban based on certain characteristics, then manufacturerspackage weapons to satisfy the legislation, so people havesame capabilities as before, except more expensively.

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There are people, like Piers Morgan, who don’t know thishistory, and label as stupid anyone who tries to educate them.

Thus the NRA spokesperson was correct.

However, Mr Gregory was broadcasting from within Washington DC,where a 50 magazine clip is illegal, whether there are bullets in it ornot, so there are calls to have him arrested.361

Many people claim a double standard. Mr Gregory gets away withsomething which would get ordinary people arrested. The ATF saysthey approved this NBC stunt, but the local police said they did not,so he is being investigated, because he is David Gregory. If he werenot David Gregory, he would be in jail already. Possessing a high-capacity clip, in the District of Columbia, is a misdemeanor crimepunishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Two fundamental rights have collided. The right to bear arms, andthe right to access information.

Gannett-owned Journal News, headquartered in White Plains, N.Y.,published a map of names and addresses of everyone (44,000people) in their circulation area, who had registered to own a gun,having obtained the info via Freedom of Information.362

This means that criminals now know where guns are, and are not. Assoon as anyone, not on the list, is victimized, their family could suethe newspaper for being an accessory to the crime. It also makes thehomes of gun owners more vulnerable to break ins, when the peopleare not home.

Bloggers published a map of names and addresses of all executivesand employees of that Newspaper.

361 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1227/Gun-control-Is-David-Gregory-s-on-air-stunt-proof-of-media-bias362 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1226/Sharp-criticism-after-New-York-newspaper-publishes-names-of-local-gun-owners?nav=605219-csm_article-bottomRelated



The White Plains Journal News, which started this firestorm, has nowreceived a variety of threats of violence, so the newspaper has hiredarmed guards.363

Piers Morgan has gone on an anti-gun crusade, in which he has beenexceedingly rude to the opposition, using CNN as a bully-pulpit, soalmost a million people have signed a petition calling for him to bedeported back to Britain.

Many Hollywood stars have called for gun control, while at the sametime they have armed bodyguards.

Dec-26+ (More Dec 28+)

Dec 26: California honored Newtown CT, by holding a gun buy back.So many Californians participated, that additional facilities had to beopened to accommodate them.364

Dec 28: Here is a story about an alleged corrupt and incompetentFlorida state official. 365 Her job is to protect children from abuse, butthe system is designed to corrupt everyone doing her job. They getscored based on volume of investigations, not on finding the truth.She receives a phone call CLAIMING that a father of 3 children ownsguns, abuses them around the children, and that the police havebeen called many times to the home because of this. She does notcheck with the police to find out if this is true. Instead, she interviewsthe children, and the father. The father says the anonymous phonecall is untrue, a form of harassment, that he has done everythingwhich can be done to protect the children, while remaining withinlocal laws. Maybe the father should advise the kids to not talk topolice or other officials, including school officials, other than teachers,without first asking for a parent or lawyer to be present at thediscussion, because unfortunately, some of them are corrupt.

363 http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/07/new-york-times-science-reporter-sees-arm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29364 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57560898/californians-honor-newtown-victims-by-selling-their-guns/365 http://www.copblock.org/25489/guilty-until-proven-innocent-guns-kids-fl-dept-of-children-families/



Dec 29: Child survivors, of the Sandy Hook massacre, have sufferedmental health harm. One lawyer, representing a 6 year old survivor,wishes to sue the state of Connecticut for inadequate securitymeasures.366 The case claims:

Lack of a safe school setting;367

Failure to review and carefully scrutinize annual strategicschool profile reports from the local school district and SandyHook Elementary as well as "other submissions with respect tostudent safety and emergency response planning andprotocol."368

Failure to require the school and local Board of Education toformulate and implement an effective student safety emergencyresponse plan.369

Different school building end 20136 miles away is a middle school which had closed last year due todeclining enrollment. It will be modified for smaller children, usedinstead of Sandy Hook. It is being converted rapidly. While thisFriday is last day of school before the holidays, a few days of routineis considered good for the kids mental health.

Start 2013 (add Jan-06+)

January: With the start of a new Congress, the newly elected onespropose new gun laws.370 Legislation has been introduced to:

366 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/29/connecticut-school-shooting-lawsuit-newtown/1797755/http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Lawyer-100M-school-shooting-claim-about-security-4153003.phphttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121229/us-connecticut-school-shooting-attorney/?utm_hp_ref=homepage&ir=homepage367 I believe this is impossible to achieve at an economical price the taxpayers are willing and able tosustain. Look at terrorists who have taken over schools, and other buildings. Look at drones fired atschools. Whatever the protection, some attacker can overcome it.368 So far I have seen zero evidence that the actual threat could have made it into any such reports.369 I do not know how accurate the drawings of the school, which I have seen in the media. I have yet tosee evidence of a good escape plan in case of fire, between students and the main entrance.370 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/05/politics/new-congress-gun-legislation/index.htmlhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/275779-dems-name-vice-chairs-of-gun-violence-task-force-



require background checks for all gun sales -- including at gunshows;371

ban high-capacity magazine clips; ban online sales of ammunition; ban sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing, of more than

100 firearms;372

ban certain semiautomatic rifles, handguns and shotguns thatcan accept a detachable magazine;373

ban semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazinethat can accept more than 10 rounds;

allow more guns around schools.

Jan 04: Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords visitedNewtown with her husband, Mark Kelly. Giffords survived a massshooting 2 years ago in Tucson Az.374

Jan 05: The House of Representatives has started a panel to focuson what needs to be done about gun violence.375 The panel says itwill meet with gun-violence experts in January month andrecommend prevention strategies in February.

Jan 06: The White House has proposed376 new regulations to:

add new penalties for carrying guns near schools;377

reintroduce ban on most powerful military weapons in civilianhands;

increase registration of guns in private hands;

371 Does this include from private individual to private individual? Does it include gifts within a family?372 Is that an inclusive or exclusive “and” … in other words it is Ok to do any on the list, it is just the totalcombination which is banned? Is this directed at enterprises which are not official gun manufacturers, suchas the use of 3D printers?373 Will there be exceptions for police and military?374 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/us/connecticut-newtown-gabrielle-giffords/index.html?hpt=hp_t3375 http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/275779-dems-name-vice-chairs-of-gun-violence-task-force-376 http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/kant-vs-augustine-on-concealed-carry-handguns/266864/?google_editors_picks=truehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/06/white-house-nra-gun-control-reformsSee Dec 19+20 on start of Gun Violence Task Force.377 I presume this will not apply to policemen.



make it more difficult for criminals, and the most seriouslymentally deranged, to get guns, in addition to what theyalready have;

but would not do much about people who have access to gunsthen get mentally ill.

See references in my Drone Terms glossary to ATF scandals,showing why putting them in charge of tracking gun trafficking hasbeen a proven catastrophic failure in the recent past. Apparently theWhite House is considering repeating this mistake. I don’t know thatthere is any obvious solution, since the FBI has also had multiplemess-ups with record-keeping and science quality. I think the SecretService has the least bad incidents of this nature, but I doubt theyhave the scale to handle the job.

Jan-07: According to USA Today, the LAPD will begin patrols of LA’s600 elementary and middle schools.378 Police officers will spend 30minutes, each day, at each school, on a random time schedule tomeet with school members, and possibly teachers and parents.

If I was one of those crazed shooters, I would arrive near a school,wait for the police officer to come then leave, then I would go in anddo my thing. However, I believe this approach to be superior topolice officers who are there all the time, like the one at Columbinewho took his lunch break in his car on one side of the campus, whilethe shooters were marching in on the other side, or the onesnationwide who have no training in dealing with children, and seem tospend most of their time assaulting children, for the most trivial ofalleged infractions.

Bogus NewsSome writers have short or selective memories.

I remember after Treyvon Martin, there was a demand for a change inthe laws that allow people to shoot other people, then claim it wasjustified. I remember many other killings like Treyvon Martin, with lots

378 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/07/los-angeles-public-schools-police-patrols/1813451/



of people making the same appeals. But some writers appear to betotally ignorant of that appeal, then ask why it did not occur.379

I agree there is a bias regarding race and gender. According tonational statistics, more males are kidnapped than females, and moreblacks are abducted than whites, but if your info source is the newsmedia you might think the most is white girls. It may be that more ofthe others are assaulted, because there is a police dept bias, whichfocuses:

1. Do something about victims when they are relatives of peopleworking in police or criminal justice.

2. Do something about victims when the news media is making afuss about the crime.

3. Do something about victims, when the family is wealthy.4. Do something about victims, who are white.5. Do something about victims, if there is any budget left.

The news media has been providing us with info, where much of it isproven to be false a few days later. Another possible explanation isthe authorities are engaged in a humongous cover-up, but the waythe news media scrambles to correct itself, I do not believe that.

Some statements are obviously bogus, the moment they come out ofthe TV news anchor mouth.

I heard one TV anchor say, QUOTEWe don’t know how to prevent this from happening again.

UNQUOTEI disagree. Vast numbers of people talk like they know how toprevent this from happening. We just all disagree on the solutions,think many other people’s proposals are ludicrous.

Some news media have said this is the worst mass shooting in UShistory. Don’t they remember Wounded Knee history? Why wouldTV say the killing of 26 white women and children is a worse massshooting than the killing of 250 Indian men women and children?Such a statement is either:

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Racist Innocent Ignorant A knee jerk reaction, where the goal is to incite people to watch

the news media, so they can sell advertising. They have zerointerest in truth.

Over several days of news media, the time line is very fluid. The shooting started … various times quoted from 9.30 to 9.40,

very definite statements. The police received their first 911 call … various times quoted

from 9.36 to 9.41, each very definite time. I suspect that some police officer gave out some specific time,

then different news media persons rounded that to nearest 5minutes, or 15 minutes, where some gave the exact quotes.

Over several days of news media, info about the mom evolves. The dead mom was a teacher at the school. No, she was not on the school staff, she was a substitute

teacher there. No, she never worked for the school system. No, she never was a teacher, other than home schooling.

Over several days of news media, info about the shooter evolves. The shooter was a recent student at that school, where there

was some problem with the school, which led to the familytaking him out of the school, and doing home teaching instead.

No, he was at that elementary school many years ago, but itwas at the high school were there was a problem that led to thehome teaching. There never was any problem between thefamily and the Elementary school.

Rumors deniedIn my notes, I repeat various things I hear on the TV news. Theofficial press conferences have the authorities denying some of thosestories.

Connecticut state police spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vancedenies a rumor that the gunman had been involved in an altercationat the school before the shooting. "There are no reports filed of any



altercation at the school involving the individual..." Vance says. "Wehave not officially identified him at this time, and we cannot discussany facts and circumstances of the deceased."380 This was at a Dec-15 press conference.

Altercations fantasyAccording to multiple news media, starting on Dec 15, we were toldthat apparently there were altercations before the day of themassacre, at the school, which may have involved the shooter, andmembers of his family. There are different conflicting news storiesregarding this.

The faculty members, who would have known the details, most ofthem are among the victims.

One of the altercations was before the day of the shooting.Others were much earlier.The police are denying some of these stories. There is no schoolrecord that any of these alleged events occurred.

I concede that it is possible that there was some altercation whichnever made it into the official school records. We have seen withmany other school incidents, where parents, school authorities, havevery different stories, in the aftermath of something bad happening tosome child, where the school acts like the event is a total surprise,while the parents talk about a series of warnings, where the schoolshould have been better prepared to deal with an escalating situation.

Some TV talking heads say this could not be an incident of a personsnapped, because they had to plan the attack, get the guns, get theammunition, know how to get into the locked building.

There are multiple different stories of alleged problems between theshooter and some school, between the parents and some school.

We do not know how long ago this happened, or even if it was at thesame school, since the shooter is now age 20, but there was some

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kind of dispute that led to the family pulling the kid from school, to dohome schooling.

Hoaxes and Conspiracy TheoriesAfter the Aurora Theater shooting, conspiracy theorists fixated on theaccused shooter’s father, Robert Holmes, pointing to media reportsthat he worked as an anti-fraud scientist for credit scoring companyFICO.

A rumor surfaced that Robert Holmes was scheduled to testify beforethe Senate on the Libor banking scandal before the theater shooting.It wasn’t true: no such hearing was ever scheduled to take place, noris there even an obvious connection between FICO and the Liborscandal, which involved a number of high-profile banks misreportinginterest rates on transactions. But imaginative commentators acrossdozens of sites exploited the phony connection anyway, concocting atheory in which the hearing was set to reveal a massive new fraudscheme before being deliberately derailed. 381

Some sites noted that The Dark Knight Rises — the movie playingduring the Aurora shooting — featured a plot point revolving aroundfinancial fraud.

Peter Lanza, the alleged Newtown shooter’s father, reportedly alsoworked in finance as vice president of taxes at GE Financial Services.Within hours, the same online forums were asserting as fact — again,100 percent without evidence — that he too was supposed to testifybefore the Senate regarding Libor. Like FICO, GE has no obviousconnection to the investigation, which has roped in various otherfinancial institutions. And once again, there is no “witness list” thatincludes Lanza because there isn’t even a hearing on the issue.382

“This rumor is 100% false,” a Senate Banking Committee aide. “TheSenate Banking Committee does not have any LIBOR hearingscurrently scheduled, and has never considered either of these menas potential witnesses.”

Nonetheless, this fiction is being used to fuel a range of conspiracies,381 http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/newtown-libor-hunger-games-theories.php382 http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/newtown-libor-hunger-games-theories.php



many of which suggest the attacks were somehow coordinated byshadowy elites in government or business to hide financialwrongdoing or confiscate guns. And they’re getting real traction fromcommentators at liberal, conservative, and fringe sites all over theInternet.

State of ArtIn the 1960’s I took a class in creative writing, and one in journalism.We were taught about primary sources. That’s someone who is adirect witness to what happened, has the professional credentials toproperly interpret what happened, the communication skills so otherpeople have a clear picture of what happened, and does not have aconflict of interest which blocks them from wanting to share the truth.For every one person who is a potential primary source, we can havethousands of people saying things, who did not witness the truth, arenot interested in communicating the truth. Their stories get reported,then repeated by others who have no idea where the stories, they arerepeated, originated.

An honest journalist has a responsibility to seek out multipleindependent primary sources, not publish anything unless it can beconfirmed by multiple people.

99% of the people, reporting stories like this in contemporary newsmedia, apparently did not attend any journalism class like I did.Maybe some of them took a class in creative (fiction) writing, andcannot tell the difference between that and factual documentaries.

In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, it can take investigatorsseveral days to get at the facts. Plane crash investigators can takeyears before they can definitively say what caused the crash, andwhat could be done in the future to prevent this from ever happeningagain.

But the news media cannot wait until the facts come out. They needviewers, so that their advertisers can get customers. To sell thegeneral public on watching the media, it is essential that they makeup information, provide creditable plausible sounding stories toentertain us, and cause us to keep coming back to hear updates tothe soap opera pretending to be breaking news.



It cannot all be true, because 3 TV channels within 5 minutes of eachother, are telling us 3 totally different stories, and all telling us this isLIVE Breaking News. Some of it is obviously a replay of the identicalLIVE Breaking News that they gave us several hours ago, but muchof it cannot possibly be older versions of the same story.

It would be like different TV news told us: A UFO landed in Central Park in NYC, and was surrounded by

the National Guard. A UFO landed at K Mart in San Francisco, and 3 green women

came out offering a cure for cancer. A UFO landed at WalMart in Cincinnati, 5 grey men came out,

and were taken away in a police van.

Different TV news telling us stories which sound similar, but haveenough differences, that they cannot possibly be old-new versions ofthe same story.

We know there’s a lot of sewage in the TV news, we just don’t knowhow much of it is gems of truth, and how much is garbage, until somedays later.

Do you ever watch Washington DC hearings on C-Span, and studythe legislation that comes from the Congress persons who were atthose hearings? It seems to me like the Congress persons learnnothing from those very informative hearings. They vote along partylines, where the party’s ideology does not include the truth of whatwas communicated at the hearings. Senators and Representativesare like actors, trying to look like they are doing their job.

Info comes out in those hearings, where most Senators andRepresentatives are rushing from one meeting to another, seldomattending any in their entirety. I guess many get a synopsis fromsomeone, which could be distorted.

With Benghazi, the US Intelligence Community was hearing fromover a dozen sources in Libya, which were later found to be



incorrect.383 Some of what they knew was classified, so when theybriefed Congress, there was the classified story, and the unclassifiedstory, both of which were being updated hourly, as more info came in.

So there’s a version of reality provided to Congress by theIntelligence Community, and a few days later Susan Rice is on TVsharing talking points exactly as they were provided to her by theIntelligence Community, which of course has evolved, because theyconstantly getting more info. Some members of Congress startscreaming that the story given by Susan Rice has been fabricated,when it is really 95% same as what was given to Congress, thechanges thanks to what the Intelligence Community found out in thelast few hours. It is evident that the screaming is by people who thinkthey can make points in the election fight, by making up stories aboutthe President contaminating the story.

We are seeing the same nonsense play out with the Newtown CTshooting. There is what may have happened, and there are thefantasies provided by the news media, where a few days later most ofthose fantasies have been proven to be false.

Witnesses unreliableA large chunk of my day job has been solving computer problems,associated with an ERP network, reported to me by random co-workers. I learned early that witness statements are merely clues, aguide, not a road map. 90% of the time, the witnesses have sometheory what is happening, and instead of telling me what theywitnessed, they tell me the theory, and invariably their theory is false,so I have to figure out what really is going on, how best to fix it.

The same kind of thing is going on in real life. People get glimpses ofreality, try to make sense of it, then what is shared with other people,is after it has gone thru that filter. A lot of people get frustrated withtopics where you need to be a professional with academic credentialsto know the truth. People don’t want “It’s complicated.” They want asimple explanation, and if they can’t get it, they construct aconspiracy theory.

383 I share what we know so far about this in my Petraeus Gate notes.



No one can know everything, but most people don’t want to admitwhat they don’t know, so they make up plausible or credible soundingstories to fill in the gaps. We find people doing this when we go togovernment offices to ask simple questions, and instead get wronganswers. We see it in the news media.

Witnesses, close to the scene, saw glimpses, not the whole story,and many are in shock. I watched one interview, with a 17 year oldNewtown High School student, who was off school that day, forreasons not told to us. A neighbor called, with news that shots hadbeen heard at the school, where the boy’s 9 year old sister was. Theschool was, understandably in retrospect, not answering their phone,so he headed over there, concerned about his sister. He arrived afterthe police, waited 20 minutes before he saw his sister, alive, but theytraumatized by seeing the bloody people coming out.

I was struck by how many news people were interviewing youngchildren, who had glimpses of a big picture, then the news peoplepresenting the info as if what the children had seen was true for theentire event.

One child was in the gym. Unclear if he was there when it started, orthat was a staging point in security then evacuation.

Some kids were evacuated by teachers, some by police, the differentnews stories basically depicted all evacuations by one particularentity. Some kids heard screams and bullets, over the schoolintercom system, so their teachers took the classes into lock down,with the kids seated on floor, under desks, out of sight of anyone whomight look in the doorway.

Newton info third day Dec-16Where some info has come out, which slightly modifies info whichcame out earlier, I sometimes adjust the earlier text. I am alsoconstantly adding new sub-chapters, as additional threads open up.Also some chapter heading text gets adjusted, moved, as it becomesobvious what more is Bogus.

Investigators are supposedly visiting sporting goods stores, andshooting ranges in the area, following leads.



Newtown info second day Dec-15Where some info has come out, which slightly modifies info whichcame out on day one, but is still unclear, not confirmed in any pressconferences I have seen, I am just updating first day info a wee bit.

Crisis response teams had also been sent in to aid families of victims.New York authorities had sent a mobile morgue to Newtown.384

Press Conferences scheduled, cancelled, postponed. This may justbe a TV channel game to try to get us to keep watching the samestuff we already heard, because we are waiting on the conference,which never comes.

As authorities get info, which is Ok to release.1. To families of victims, via state police assigned to all locations

where the families are gathering.2. To media.

There are multiple crime scenes Within the school Outside the school

Knee Jerk Debate TopicsWe have a growing volume of people on the news media and socialmedia who trot out their favorite theories … we can prevent this kindof thing, if only …. Whatever. But for every “whatever” there are amountain of people with a diametric opposite view.

This kind of event, where over a dozen people get killed, areextremely infrequent in US history. Talking heads, and people onsocial media, seem to want to fix what they think is the cause ofsomething that happens once in a blue moon, but are not interestedin addressing the every day violence which is killing maimingtraumatizing one child at a time, in communities all over the USA.

This was not a “school shooting.” It was a shooting by a derangedindividual, which happened to be at a school.

384 http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/victims-shot-multiple-times-20121216-2bh55.html



We would be having events like this all the time, if in fact the causewas:

Mentally ill people; Bullying; Undiagnosed problems; God missing from schools; Guns in the hands of many people; Violence on TV and in movies; Video Games;385

Loud Music.

Would these same people be saying this if the list included readingthe Bible; or other more popular activities?

To name a few things which some people have said needs to beeliminated, to prevent these once in a blue moon events fromhappening again. I agree that SOME of these are issues we shouldaddress, but we should not be addressing them because ofsomething which has happened maybe 4 times in 100 years.

Guns Parenting (start Jan-05)Here’s an article on the importance of parents teaching their childrento take guns seriously.386

Newtown School info begins Dec-14Here is initial TV news info. As claims can be verified, I will re-organize what’s where here, like I did with Colorado Theater and theSikh Temple.

As usual, a flood of TV channels interrupt normal broadcasting to giveus the latest of what they think they know, in which there is confusion,pace of info coming out. I heard and saw pieces of info from: ABCNews; CBS News; CNN; Fox News; HLN; HNN; MSNBC; NBC News;

385 According to news accounts, Sandy Hook shooter Adam Peter Lanza played Call of Duty, StarCraft andWarcraft III..http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/violent-videogame-regulation/386 http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/20/living/guns-children-home/index.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=linkedin&goback=.gde_2200358_member_198375629



News 12 NJ; 14 News Evansville IN; News 18 CT; WABC-TV;WEHT; WEVV; WFIE; WGN Chicago; WVIT; and probably more,where the images unclear or covered up, where one TV news wasgetting their footage from another.

By the second day, local TV stations had returned to normalprograms, maybe 3.5 national TV stations had round the clockcoverage, less each subsequent day, with intermittent exit forupdates on other stories like:

Boehner open to higher taxes on people making 1 million ormore a year

Clinton Health Egypt Constitution Kerry most likely next Secretary of State Washington DC Political Circus

Initial CT breaking news confusionSo here is what I got, from those above TV presentations, when thestory first began to unfold, Friday Dec-14, 2012.

Sandy Hook elementary school is for kindergarten thru 4th grade.500 or 600 children attend the school.46-50 faculty and staff worked there, before 6 of them got killed.

Parents were alerted via reverse 911, to come to the Firehouse topick up their kids.

9.30 am approx = the shooting started.9.41 am 911 heard about it.

Local and State police rapidly arrived on the scene.The police did not discharge any weapons. It was over before theyarrived.

State police in charge for now.Federal authorities helping: FBI ATF.CT Governor on the scene.President Obama has been briefed, has spoken with the Governor.



People, seen running from the school, were detained and questioned.Initially the police don’t know who is a witness, and who may beshooter # 2 (if any).

The police checked the school for an active shooter, moving studentsto safer areas, such as the gym after making sure it was clear, thencoordinated an evacuation to the nearby Firehouse.

From different witnesses, many of them small children, it is unclear ifthe lock down, and evacuation, was organized by teachers or police,or different authorities different places within the school.

It took about 20-30 minutes to conduct the evacuation.

Parents were asked to meet their children, at the Firehouse, viareverse 911.

Uncertainty if 1 or 2 gunmen.Police initially suspected 2nd gunman escaped from the school, theysearching cars and businesses, near the school, for that 2nd suspect.

In time the scene became secure, but the investigation continues.

Info found on scene, about the deceased shooter, leads to searchwarrants for more info.

Deaths in Newtown CTWide range of reporting claims.20 to 28 fatalities. Students and Staff.10 to 20 children dead, ages 5 to 10.16 of the dead children were aged 6.387

4 of the dead children were aged 7.388

12 of the dead children were girls.389

8 of the dead children were boys.390

6 to 9 adults killed.

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The lists below, do not include the gunman or his mother, but theyhave been widely reported.

Alan Lanza, age 20, DOB 04/22/92 – his cause of death hasbeen ruled a suicide, all the others have been ruled homicide.

Nancy Lanza, age 52, DOB: 9/6/60

Here are the 20 children who were killed:391

Charlotte Bacon, age 6 Daniel Barden, age 7 Olivia Engel, age 6 Josephine Gay, age 7 Ana M Marquez-Greene, age 6 Dylan Hockley, age 6 Madeleine F Hsu, age 6 Catherine V Hubbard, age 6 Chase Kowalski , age 7 Jesse Lewis, age 6 James Mattioli, age 6 Grace McDonnell, age 7 Emilie Parker, age 6 Jack Pinto, age 6 Noah Pozner, age 6 Caroline Previdi, age 6 Jessica Rekos, age 6 Avielle Richman, age 6 Benjamin Wheeler, age 6 Allison N Wyatt, age 6

The six adults killed were all women.392

Rachel Davino, age 29.

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Dawn Hochsprung, Principal, age 47. Here is info abouther.393

Anne Marie Murphy, age 52. Lauren Rousseau, Teacher, age 30. Here is info about

her.394

Mary Sherlach, School Psychologist, age 56, oldest killed.395

Victoria Sota, Teacher, age 27.396

Shooter dead on scene, allegedly took own life, aged 20 / 24?

We are not hearing much info on how many wounded.The Vice Principal was wounded in the leg, but lived.

Either the same day, or the next day, all the bodies had been movedto the medical examiner’s office.

All the dead victims had been shot multiple times, the least was 3times, the most was 11 times.397

This event has violated multiple US taboos: Killing your own mother. Killing little children. Shooting the victims so many times. Trying to frame your brother.

Other schools in the area are on lockdown.Danbury Hospital, where many victims were taken, is also onlockdown.

393 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/15/newtown-school-shooting-aftermath-live-updates#block-50cc878ab5791bfc0f461119http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/world-view/2012/dec/14/principal-school-psychologist-killed-sandy-hook/394 http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Lauren-Rousseau-The-best-year-of-her-life-4120850.php395 http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/world-view/2012/dec/14/principal-school-psychologist-killed-sandy-hook/396 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/15/sandy-hook-teacher-victoria-sotohttp://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,5043872.story397 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-14/connecticut-shooting-leaves-27-dead-including-pupils-aphttp://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/victims-shot-multiple-times-20121216-2bh55.html



President Obama has been briefed, he has spoken with theGovernor.

Dec 14 evening there were vigils at 2 churches in Newtown.

The community of Newtown CT has a population of approx 27,000.In the prior decade, it has only had one murder.Newtown CT is located approx 80 miles NE of NYC.

Mental Health in GeneralThere are many dimensions to be addressed in combating this typeof problem:

Improve security at places with lots of targets for crazies andterrorists.

Improve Gun Safety policies, without threatening the 2nd

Amendment and healthy use of Guns. Repair what passes for Mental Health support in USA. What shall we do about parents in denial?398

Sometimes the News Media makes some problems worse.399

Newtown Funerals and Newtown School Buses are passing eachother. Is that in the best interests of the mental health of the childrenon the buses?

According to TV news, Mental Health is a $113 Billion industry inAmerica, but hangs over a fiscal cliff.400

There is a stigma associated with talking about Mental Health, andasking for help, which tends to interfere with, and discourage, peoplegetting rapid help, like most of us do for Physical Health. It is like thestigma with AIDS and less risky infectious diseases.

There are institutional barriers to getting quality effective MentalHealth diagnosis and care.

398 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/parental-denial-a-universal-affliction/2012/12/18/7944a318-4945-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html?wprss=rss_on-parentinghttp://iasc-culture.org/research_character_of_american_families_project.php399 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/newtown-shootings-media-coverage-creates-dangerous-stereotypes-of-people-with-autism/2012/12/17/2341fb42-4868-11e2-820e-17eefac2f939_blog.html#pagebreak400 http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/12/19/despite-newtown-mental-health-care-dangles-over-fiscal-cliff/



Health Insurance companies often do not cover Mental Health withthe same vigor as they cover Physical Health.401

Funding for research into doing a better job caring for people withMental Health challenges, cannot hold a candle to other research.

There was a 2007 federal law, if a judge finds a person has a mentalhealth problem, the court must report that person.

Building more mental health hospitals is not the answer, that justfeeds the out-of-sight out-of-mind mentality, which got uswarehousing scandals and stigma.

Mental Health Victim FamiliesSome survivors of Columbine, from 14 years ago, are now parents,some being interviewed.

Many years of healing ahead There’s nothing you can say, just grieve with them. When history repeats, there is an emotional toll again, like a vet

reliving combat trauma.

Mental Health First RespondersFirst responders encountered a horrific scene. They did their jobs,but they too will need mental health victim services counseling.

Mental Health Shooter FamilyThe mother of a child with mental health issues, wrote a blog titled “Iam the mother of Adam Lanza” trying to raise some issues.402 Shethought she could do this anonymously, apparently not learning fromrecent history that privacy on the Internet is a fantasy.403

401 http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2012/dec/19/opinion-insurance-companies-cover-mental-health/402 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.htmlhttp://healthland.time.com/2012/12/17/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-when-parents-are-afraid-of-their-children/http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/17/the-backlash-against-i-am-adam-lanzas-mother/403 See my Petraeus Gate notes for example. If the head of the CIA cannot have privacy, who can? Ialso explained in a recent related thread about massive IBM security which got breached. What hope isthere for people without IBM professional know how, having voting machines which can be relied upon?



There was a social media firestorm about this blog, where apparentlya lot of people unsympathetic to points she was trying to raise.People who do not understand the challenges of dealing with thementally ill, sometimes blame the wrong things for those people beingmentally ill. But other people took her messages to heart. Quite a fewwrote in that they had family problems exactly what she wasdescribing.

Apparently Adam lived with his Mom Nancy, in Newtown CT, and wasbelieved to have had some mental ill problems. A lot of info camefrom interviewing neighbors, and distant relatives, who may not becorrectly depicting the precise medical problems. We were told theshooter had:

Autism Aspeger’s Was deeply disturbed Was such a nice pleasant boy, this event is inexplicable Did not feel medical pain when physically injured, so great care

had to be taken by people caring for him.

Various TV talking heads had wild speculations regarding correlationsvarious mental problems. I did not see a single medical professionalin the bunch. They said BS things like:

“Autism is inherited.”404

Lack of physical pain may imply lack of emotional empathy. The mental problems listed, do not explain this event. Some of the mental problems listed, do explain this event.

There is no safety net for the mentally ill. They are on ahigh wire above us. Sometimes they fall, and land on us. Instead ofa political system which makes huge profits, at taxpayer expense, forcompanies housing people convicted of crimes of substance abuse,and mental handicaps, we should move those profits to a healthsystem which cures people of those problems, so they can haveproductive lives.

404 The last science study I read, said that 100% of medical records for decades in Denmark were analyzedand this produced a direct correlation. If a pregnant woman gets certain kinds of infections during certainstages of the pregnancy, that can adversely affect what parts of the fetus are developing at that point. Sothey have a precise cause for Autism.



In my Economy Disaster research notes,405 glossary section, Iexplained why the legal system in America is a house on fire. It is notthe only house on fire.406 The US mental health system is anAmerican Embarrassment. It gets a D minus, or worse.

If a family wants to get mental health care for a family member, theyfirst have to get them to have a criminal record, or accused of being athreat to people, because the pre-requisite for mental health care isfor it to be an emergency. This is like saying no one can go to doctorfor a physical medical problem until after they are infectious with theplague. Parents need a lower thresh hold to get mental help for theirtroubled children.

In theory, there are different kinds of mental health treatmentprograms, once the victim’s problems have been properly diagnosed.One of the most economical, supposedly, is AOT = Assisted Out-Patient Treatment. This is also true for physical health problems. Westay at home, regularly visit the doctor facility.

Shooter Lanza FamilyAdam Lanza (age 20) was the shooter, but he was carrying the id ofhis brother Ryan Lanza (age 24). Info about Ryan was initiallypublicized, he was thought to be the shooter, then later, theinvestigation figured out that Adam was the shooter. Ryan, and thefather of the boys, and other relatives and neighbors are beingquestioned.

Early morning Dec-14, Adam shot and killed his Mom, then traveledto the school where Nancy was a kindergarten teacher, and shotevery kid in Mom’s class.

No, Mom was not a regular teacher, she was a substituteteacher.

405 Uploaded to several collections, such as http://www.haiti.prizm.org/ andhttps://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw/edit406 See my Indy Boom notes uploaded several places such ashttp://www.scribd.com/doc/114094060/Indy-Boom maybe should be called “America Burning:” Every 3days we have 4 explosions, because US utilities are dying of old age.



No, Mom was not a substitute teacher. She never worked atthat school.

Every few days, the news media story changes.

The school was locked. Adam broke in. Precisely how he did so, thenews media has given us scores of different versions, but no word yetfrom authorities whether any of the versions are valid.

Guns involved = a violence cliffThere is a lot of conflicting info in the news. I still do not have a clearpicture of what guns were used in the shootings, what guns Adamhad access to, whether all those guns were legal for Nancy to have.

A lot of news media had been talking about the Fiscal Cliff inWashington DC, which may only be a fiscal curb. This situation is aViolence Cliff. Parents are supposed to store guns where the kidscannot easily get at them, especially a child who has mentalproblems. However, parents are sometimes in denial regarding theseriousness of mental problems of family members.

Nancy was a gun collector, who had taken her children to shootingranges.

The gun which did the killing (unclear to me from the stories so far),was apparently rigged for rapid reloading.407 I do not know if that waslegal in CT.

The gunman supposedly had access to at least 5 guns.

He took with him: A total of 3 4 5 weapons, depending on which news story. 1-2 Glock 9mm handguns A Sig Saur 9 mm handgun A .45 handgun A semi-automatic .223 Bushmaster An M-4 rifle A modified M-16 rifle

407 http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/me-adam-lanza-s-rifle-rigged-to-reload-quickly-sandy-hook-autopsies-worst-i-ve-seen-1.4336199



2-4 weapons (handguns?) were found by the body of the shooter, inthe school.

Two news stories said that all the victims were killed with fullyautomatic weapons, not semi-automatic. I heard on one of the newsbriefings, the coroner saying that he had autopsied 6 of the victims sofar, and they had all been killed by automatic weapons. That is notthe same as all the victims, not yet autopsied.

CT had an assault weapon ban, but the way it was defined, it onlyapplied to 35 weapons, of which the one used by the shooter was notbanned. Apparently the way these laws have been written, theydefine a combination of how the guns are designed, so that gunmakers modify their weapons so they can be sold without violatingthe ban. This makes them more expensive, but still available.

1-2 weapons were found in the car. The Bushmaster was found in the car. The M-16 was found in the car. One of the long rifles was found in trunk of car. I don’t yet know if this was the same, or different weapon, as

one named as found in the car.

Back at Mom’s home, not by the body, nor in the car, there weresupposedly 1 to 3 more guns.

Older model rifle(s).

A few news reports are saying there were 4 weapons.408

Some store is denying selling a long gun to the shooter.

An estimated 100+ shots were fired.

All weapons were supposedly legally owned by Mom, depending onwhich news stories we hear or read.

All the shooting was allegedly in rooms immediately adjacent to thefront entrance to the school. Top school administrators were having

408 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/14/us-connecticut-towns-idUSBRE8BD0U120121214



a meeting. When they heard the shooting, they immediately putthemselves in harms way to protect the children. The Principal, andSchool Psychologist were killed. The Vice Principal was wounded,retreated, and called 911.

Although the shooting was at the front of the school, the gunfire washeard throughout the building.

Some parents are wondering how the shooter got into the building.They say the front door is normally locked.

I am wondering if kids can get out Ok if there is a fire.

There’s also a story about some new security system recentlyinstalled at the school. If so, I imagine the police are now viewingvideo tapes of how the shooter got into the building.

Doomsday MentalityThere are people who believed various tales that the world wascoming to an end. According to some news stories, this was date #182 in history associated with such predictions, which we havepassed without the predictions coming true. Most of the predictionshave been based in logic by people who lack science training.

Planet X will hit Earth; the Mayan Calendar is more than a Y2K;Political leaders, who demonize their opponents to get elected, arebeing truthful. These people build bomb shelters, stockpile weapons,they are getting ready for the apocalypse. There are some whodepict Nancy Lanza as being part of this mentality.409

There are people who believe that some day the government willbecome corrupt, and will come for us, like the government of Syria. Ido not know what proportion of the people share this view, but it isevident from the racist militias, and other behaviors, that it is a lot ofpeople.

They say that if the Jews were armed, there would not have been aHolocaust. Actually, the Jews were armed. There was a strong

409 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108675425513737555453/posts/7ZxrJfBLF1q



underground, which knew exactly what was happening, but thepeople did not believe. They thought it was like the propaganda ofWW I. When lies are told enough, the people cannot believe truth.

I have communicated with people who have this kind of thinking, viasites for making preparations in case of an emergency.410 It isevident to me that Doomsday Preppers are both misrepresented, andthere are some nut cases among them. There are nut cases in mostevery population, but those nut cases are not the entire population ofthe groups they can be found within.

Lawsuits?The shooter was over 18, an adult, shot himself. Not his guns,belonged to his mother, but the owner is dead.

The estate can be sued, but difficult to prove anything, but the estatemay be substantial, considering the Mansion they were apparentlyliving in, if we can believe the TV news is correctly showing Mom’shouse. Some TV anchors said it is a $ 1.6 million home.

There may be lawsuits demanding info people cannot now get.Some may demand a change in security at the school.

NJ CT IL confusionRyan apparently lived in Hoboken NJ. When he arrived home at hisapartment there, with his girlfriend, the police were searching hisapartment, and took the both of them in for questioning.

The questioning was by the police, the FBI, depending on differentnews media stories. Other news media says the apartment was inNewtown CT.

The Hoboken NJ version had news media talking about facilities inthe area on lock down, such as a day care center.

The Hoboken NJ version initially had someone dead at theapartment, then that story said to be false. Maybe they got confusedwith the death of the Mom back in Newtown CT.

410 http://emergencysociety.com/



Nancy and the boy’s father had divorced, in 2009, then the fatherremarried. He lived in NJ, or the same Newtown neighborhood asthe mother, depending on which story we hear.

One story said the father is VP of GE Financial Services, so maybehe can afford to have multiple homes.

The father is being interviewed, by the FBI, NJ police, CT police,according to different news media. He was picked up in NJ, CT,depending on different news media.

The boy has an aunt, who lives in Crystal Lake IL. Various newsmedia attribute things to her, and also show an interview with her.

The family used to live in Illinois, then moved to New England. She kept in regular contact with them, only by e-mail and

Facebook. The boy was very intelligent. They were not a violent family. The gun collection is normal behavior, for self-protection

News anchor reactionsNews anchors credit several things with why school shootings nowdeclined compared to the earlier problems:411

Better training for teachers;412

School plans and lockdown drills; Students encouraged to report crisis situations, before they

escalate;413

Anti-bullying programs in many schools;414

Police training how best to respond to scenarios like this; Police in schools;415

Communications continue to improve across a spectrum ofways to reach out for help.416

411 I suspect this is news anchors saying stuff off the top of their heads, without any formal statistics toprove that there is any truth to their anecdotal memories.412 In which there are multiple stories about it being seriously impaired.413 Also stories of students being disciplined for doing the right things, not being taught what is right, andhow to cope.414 We also hear about pro-bullying in many schools.415 We also hear many stories of police misconduct and abuse in schools. A good starting point for storieslike that is here: http://www.policemisconduct.net/



I would add, that many major educational institutions have initiatedplans for how to deal with threats, particularly in the wake of VA Tech.But we can see from Aurora, that effort still has a way to go to beeffective in protecting the larger community from threats known to theeducational community.

Interviewing various people (relevant qualifications?) How to talk to kids about such rare horrific events in the news

addictions. Various people spouting off about familiar arguments and

speculations about how this kind of once in a blue moon eventcould be prevented.

Address lack of help for mental health issues; Gun Control, as if it could have prevented this event, where the

shooter, as in other school incidents with much less killed, gothands on weapon not registered to them. Much more killed inthis incident, because the mother had taken the boys to ashooting range, to teach them how to use guns. In manyincidents with smaller number killed, the child not supposed tohave the gun, did not know how to use it efficiently.

Ages of shooters – many incidents compared, where it seemsto me someone had a conclusion, then selected incidents whichfit into some theory, not using good DoJ statistics.

This kind of thing will happen again. There are people who arementally ill. They cannot get effective treatment, but they can getaccess to guns. Most mentally ill people are not a threat.

Do metal detectors work effectively for federal buildings,airports, without excessive cost?417

No one “solution” will mitigate all scenarios.

416 However, a lot is still very fragile. Cell Towers and Internet go down in a bad storm like Sandy. TheInternet was originally designed to protect US communications in case of an enemy attack, but now it isvulnerable to EMP or terrorism. During 9/11 2001 we discovered that police fire ambulance otherauthorities could not inter-communicate. We do not know if that has been fixed yet.417 Some TV talking heads are saying that this could have been avoided if ALL schools in the world hadmetal detectors. I wonder at the expense of trying to prevent an incident of a nature which has happenedmaybe 4 times in 100 years.



School Shootings in PerspectiveUnder current mental health theory, people who do mass killings, whoare mentally ill, do not suddenly snap and go out and do this thing.They exhibit symptoms for weeks or months in advance that they area potential threat to other people.418 Mental Health professionals cansee these clues, and alert authorities about the potential threats, butfor this to happen, the people at risk need to have exposure to theprofessionals.

I went into this in more detail with the Aurora shooting, which couldhave been prevented, had University of Colorado had any fiduciaryresponsibility to inform the larger community that a threat was headedtheir way. In the Sandy Hook shooting, it appears from many storiesthat the shooter and mom were birds of a feather, isolated from anormal society which would have been able to tell that there wastrouble coming.

Shooting Statistics (more Dec 28+)While reading thru Fact Check statistics on USA overall, I feel I wantto hear their figures on Chicago, because there seem to be in thenews a non-stop parade of stories of gun violence in Chicago,spiraling out of any control.

Fact Check Org has an article on the Guns Rhetoric.419

Many people make claims, which are misleading at best. FactCheck Org sorts out which are accurate, false, in between.

The USA has highest rate of gun ownership in the world.420

o But this rate is declining. The USA has highest rate of homicides among advanced

countries. But this rate is also declining. US rate of gun murder is at its lowest point since at least 1981.

o 36 per million people in 2010. High point was 70 in 1993.o However, non-fatal gun injuries from assaults increased in

2011 for third straight year, and that rate is highest since2008.

418 http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2012/12/top_10_myths_about_mass_shooti.html419 http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/420 I assume they referring to guns owned by civilians, not including guns in possession of police andmilitary.



Violent crimes committed with guns — including murders,aggravated assaults and robberies — have declined for threestraight years.

130 school shootings, since Columbine, resulted in at least onestudent or school official being killed or injured.

o 62 of those shootings resulted in two or more killed orinjured.

o Some people are reporting higher counts, using incidentswhich are not schools, or not shootings.

Remember that definitions like “assault, murder, robbery” are by thepolice, and often do not include the police, or other governmentagents, doing the exact same things, under color or law. Also not allcrimes are reported to the police.

CDC data on death by guns is more accurate than FBI data,because:

CDC data comes from statistics of people who get killed, andwhere medical examiners rule it was homicide, or police doingjustifiable killing, not including suicide, or accident, and thatdata says 30 people a day, as of 2010.

FBI data comes from crime reports, that data says 24 a day, asof 2010. FBI and DoJ recently started tracking police doingjustifiable killing, but not all police depts report such statistics tothe feds.

There has been an increase in guns owned in America, but hasthere been an increase in people who own the guns? Nobodyknows for sure. Surveys indicate the number of households withguns is declining, but are people always honest when responding tosurveys, and are all surveys a good sample of the public?

Does having more guns in public mean more homicides withguns?I believe this question cannot be answered, unless we factor in theimpact of an armed public in combination with corrupt cops. Howmight victims of corrupt cops act differently, if the victims were armed,with both cell phone camera recording the situation, and a weapon?Currently corrupt cops confiscate the cell phone evidence.



Studies haven’t been able to show a causal relationship — that merepresence of guns, as opposed to other factors, caused higher rates ofgun violence.

Do concealed gun carry laws deter crime, or increase shootings?Does public list of where guns are stored, and where not, incite morecrime?There are people arguing both sides of those issues.Academic studies are on both sides. Some of the people, doing thestudying, appear to be biased, not using statistics properly.Crime is down dramatically right now — even in states that have notpassed such laws.

Here’s info on 151 victims of mass shootings in 2012.421 MotherJones says 2012 was the worst year in modern history.

That is a much better statement than many other media saying latestshooting worst in US history, when there were worse shootings inless than a decade, let alone what happened with massacres ofIndians. However, 2012 may be the worst year of shootings insidethe USA in modern history, it is not the worst year of shootings byUSA forces in the world, when we consider innocent victims of droneattacks, and the fact that in warfare, for every 1 enemy soldier killed,there are approx 15 innocent civilians killed.

Over the past 30 years, the USA has on average 20 mass shootingsa year, with at least four victims killed by gunfire.422 They are nothappening more frequently, or less frequency.

In your average mass shooting event, in America, the shooter can killor wound 14 people before the police show up, but when there issomeone armed there already, able to retaliate against the shooter,the average is 2.5. There will be some scenarios where this does notwork, like all the smoke in the Aurora theater.423

421 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-victims-2012https://plus.google.com/u/0/110097167949323324728/posts/3NsJqbHzCek422 http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2012/12/top_10_myths_about_mass_shooti.html423 https://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/



When people call 911, the police response time will vary, dependingon traffic and other factors. Best response is 2-3 minutes, bad is ½an hour or more. In that time period, a shooter might reload severaltimes, with magazine clips containing 30 rounds.

The teachers are already at the school. Store clerks are already atthe mall. Where ever the attack, if among the people there, there aresome armed, they can counter the shooter. Yes, these people mightnot have good gun training, but they can slow down the shooter,distract the shooter, when seconds count, while waiting minutes forthe police to arrive.

On an average day in America, 33 people are killed with guns, notcounting police shooting people where there is no proof they didanything wrong. 33 x 365 days424 = 12,045 a year. In the vastmajority of mass shootings, the shooters got their guns legally.

According to TV News: Of these 12k kills, only 323 are with long guns. Over 3 million Americans own AK-15 (1%). There are more guns on the street than people, thanks to the

NRA. Gun sales are up because:

o (a) fear of a coming ban – get firsto (b) the fear culture

This 33 does not include the 1-2 killed daily in the USA by thepolice.425 How many of them were killed while engaged in a realcrime, and how many were innocents killed by mistake by the police,we do not have good statistics.

The FBI releases annual statistics for “justifiable homicide byweapon, law enforcement,” defined as “the killing of a felon by a lawenforcement officer in the line of duty.” Police, across the USA,habitually label as a felon, anyone the police killed, without anyevidence of wrong doing. The FBI total was around 400 per yearfrom 2007 to 2011. The number of such killings so far in 2012 is

424 There are 366 every 4th leap year.425 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/19/poli-d19.html



estimated at 525 or more.426 These statistics do not include manydeaths from tasers, restraint, or beatings, particularly inside themassive US prison system.

Many police departments underreport their “justifiable homicides” tothe FBI. For example, the Los Angeles Police Department wascompelled to admit in a lawsuit that there were 79 fatal policeshootings from 2000 to 2005, while it had reported only 38.427 AlsoFBI statistics do not include episodes of police violence in which theindividual survives, even if the person sustains permanent disfiguringor disabling injuries.

Worst FantasyAs usual, news anchors are saying Newtown CT is the worst schoolshooting in US history. As usual, I have trouble believing that thelatest of a type of incident is always the worst, so I will be factchecking later. Many compared to Columbine (1999?), claiming thatwas at the peak of an epidemic of school shootings in the USA whichbegan to die down 10-15 years ago.

There is a shock value associated with any news about a lot ofpeople killed, whether in an earthquake, plane crash, or violent event.This can sensitize us to be more aware of similar events, and in turnlead us to falsely believe that kind of event is happening more oftenthan in past history.

Also see statistics from Yale Law School.428

See links below for more details on past events. It would seem moreaccurate to say that

the Dec-14, 2012 mass shooting is the worst at a USeducational institution since 32 died at VA Tech in 2007; or,

excluding colleges, it is the worst deliberate mass killing at aUS school since 425 died in New London Tx in 1937; or

426 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/19/poli-d19.html427 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/19/poli-d19.html428 http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2012/12/15/more-statistics-less-persuasion-the-gun-control-debate-conti.html



limiting it to mass shooting at a US school, excluding colleges,it is the worst since 38 were killed 1927 in Bath Mi.

The worst mass shootings in US history, were when the UScavalry massacred Indian villages.429 Wounded Knee isprobably the most famous, where 130-250 Indians were killed,but there were many similar incidents. So don’t call this thingthe worst mass shooting in US history. Nothing which hashappened in the last 100 years in the USA, can compare to thedeath toll of early US history, other than Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

A school shooting is where gun violence occurs inside an educationalinstitution.430 In addition to Wikipedia, also see list of serious massshootings in Connecticut, USA, and rest of the world, in: HartfordCourant Newspaper;431 Mother Jones;432 UK Guardian.433

The worst mass shooting in a Canadian school may be ÉcolePolytechnique Massacre in Montreal Quebec, where 14 died, Dec 6,1989.There have been a few in Europe where 16 to 18 died.

Worst Past HistoryThe San Bruno Gas explosion has been labeled by some as theworst such disaster in USA history,434 but I think the New Londondisaster was worse:

o The New London Texas Gas Explosion killed 425 studentsand teachers, in March 1937.435

o It was not an accident, but rather man made, although notintentional, a culmination of bad practices. In theaftermath, Texas passed some laws about safety, andqualifications to be an engineer.

o New London is considered, by some, to be the worstdisaster in a US school building. Some other people

429 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre430 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings431 http://www.courant.com/http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-timeline-mass-killings-20121214,0,7013661.story432 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map433 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/14/gun-massacres-shootings-us-timeline434 For more about gas explosions in US history, see my Indy Boom notes.435 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion



might consider Separate but Equal to be the worstdisaster of US schools history.

Some notable mass shootings in USA school history, from Wikipedia,include:436

May 18, 1927: Bath, Michigan School treasurer Andrew Kehoe,after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew upthe Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in thebasement of the school, killing 38 people, mostly children. Hethen pulled up to the school in his Ford car, then set off a truckbomb, killing himself and four others. Only one shot was fired inorder to detonate dynamite in the car. This may be thedeadliest act of deliberate mass murder at a school in theUnited States, not counting attacks on Indian schools, whichhappened to be in massacred Indian villages, attacked duringearly US history.

August 1, 1966: University of Texas Massacre CharlesWhitman age 25, climbed atop the observation deck at theUniversity of Texas-Austin, and killed 16 people and wounded31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage.

November 12, 1966: Mesa, Arizona Bob Smith, 18, took sevenpeople hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school fortraining beauticians. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down onthe floor in a circle. He then proceeded to shoot them in thehead with a 22-caliber pistol. Four women and a three-year-oldgirl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived.Police arrested Smith after the massacre. Smith had reportedlyadmired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman.

The two most notable U.S. school shootings in the early 1970swere the Jackson State killings in May 1970, where policeopened fire on the campus of Jackson State University and theKent State shootings also in May 1970 where the NationalGuard opened fire on the campus of Kent State University.

May 16, 1986: The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisisIn a ransom scheme, David and Doris Young, both in theirforties, took 150 students and teachers hostage. Their demandfor $300 million dollars came to an abrupt end when Doris

436 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States



accidentally set off a bomb, killing herself and injuring 78students and teachers. David wounded John Miller, a teacherwho was trying to flee, then killed himself.

April 20, 1999: Littleton, Colorado 14 students (includingshooters) and one teacher killed, 27 others wounded atColumbine High School. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17,had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up theirschool. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned theirguns on themselves.[37] This incident was approx 20 miles fromthe Theater in Aurora Colorado where a mass shooting tookplace in 2012.

October 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a milk-truck driver,shot dead five girls in a one-room Amish schoolhouse beforekilling himself. Five other girls were critically injured by Roberts,who was not Amish.

April 16, 2007: 32 were killed in the VA Tech massacre.437

NY Fire Ambush 2012 Christmas EveOn Christmas Eve 2012, Volunteer firemen responding to a housefire were ambushed by a gunman, who killed two, injured three, afterwhich the gunman was dead in the fire fight with police.438

Location = near the Lake Ontario shore in Webster, New York,outside Rochester, approx 340 miles NW of NYC. The gunmanopened fire on the firefighters at approx 5.30 am ET.Most of the fire fighters were pinned down on the narrow strip of landbetween Lake Ontario and Irondequoit Bay until a SWAT teamarrived. Not only was this an ambush, but the gunman had selecteda spot where firefighters would be trapped.

437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre438 http://www.dansvilleonline.com/news/x1783187922/Gunman-kills-two-firefighters-on-Christmas-Eve-injures-two-othershttp://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20121224/NEWS01/312240026/webster-shooting?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|Home&gcheck=1http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/24/16125861-4-volunteer-firefighters-shot-2-killed-in-apparent-trap?litehttp://www.key103.co.uk/news/uk-and-world/20121224-firefighters-shot-dead-in-house-blaze-trap/http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/27/sandy-hook-huge-hoax-and-anti-gun-psy-op/https://plus.google.com/103921560933476776900/posts/hk36r3cbr7vIt is too soon to know gunman motive. Note in my Indy Boom notes, that we just learned identities ofculprits in the man-made fiery disaster in Indianapolis.



Dead = Webster police officer, Lt. Michael Chiapperini, who was alsoa volunteer fireman, and Monroe County 911 dispatcher TomaszKaczowka.Wounded = volunteer firefighters Joseph Hofsetter and TheodoreScardino, and Greece police officer John Ritter. An off-duty policeofficer, who was driving by, has injuries from shrapnel. Two woundedfirefighters were in critical condition.Initially, authorities were unsure, but now they are certain, it was justthe one gunman.The firefighters were kept, by the gunman, from battling the blaze, asit spread to more homes and a car. Four homes were destroyed, andfour damaged.The gunman had previously been in prison for 17 years for beatinghis grandmother to death with a hammer.439

Investigating Sikh Temple incidentsAs with the Aurora situation, there is main incident and secondaryrelated incidents. The main incident here, is the shooting Aug-5 atthe temple. Secondary incidents we have heard about so far:

Threats directed against the temple, in the days before theattack.

ReactionsPresident Obama called for flags at half mast nation wide, thru FridayAug-10.Other religions called for a day of prayer.Members of the diplomatic staff of India have visited with the Sikhcommunity of Wisconsin.440

People in India are understandably concerned about the safety oftheir brethren in America, and as we can see from other places in mynotes, this is an appropriate feeling. Thanks to America’s HateMovement, Indians in America have been at risk for years, as aremany other people of varying backgrounds.

439 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/24/16125861-gunman-who-ambushed-firefighters-killed-grandmother-in-1980-police-say?lite440 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/us-guruwdara-shooting-four-of-six-victims-were-indians/1/212087.html



Secretary of State Clinton has reached out to the Indian governmentto try to provide reassurance that this concern is misplaced.441 Itsounds to me like PR to tell a customer, what the spokespersonthinks the customer wants to hear.

However, Clinton has promised to deliver a copy of the FBIinvestigation report to the government of India.

According to the Indian publication, Deccan Herald on Aug 8, 2012,QUOTE442

The SGPC chief Makkar said, “Earlier, after 9/11 also, Sikhswere targeted. This time our place of worship was targeted, afirst so far.

UNQUOTEThis information is unfortunately not quite right. This is not a first inAmerica. Many different religions houses of worship have beentargeted in attacks, including Sikh.

There was a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in San FranciscoJanuary 2000,443 where the name of the shooter was Joga SinghSandher, so it sounds like a different motive may have been involved.

Democracies, and other types of governments, world wide haveserious problems with people who have grievances, real andimagined, taking action, peaceful and violent, against the state,private organizations, and fellow people, where our society is notdoing a good job addressing the issues. I think that nations withsimilar challenges could be helping each other with their resolution.

My mitigation section is where I will address what I think can be doneabout this.444 Also see other notes by me in my various shareddocuments collections, In my semi-retirement I have a hobby of

441 US State Dept assures government of India that the US will do the right thing to protect Sikhs, andIndian Diaspora.http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/08/07/indian-fm-clinton-assures-safety-of-indian-community-following-sikh-shooting-2/http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/50215000c3d4ca6c2b000003/clinton-speaks-with-indian-fm-after-sikh-temple-attackhttp://www.deccanherald.com/content/269847/delhi-asks-us-ensure-security.html442 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/269847/delhi-asks-us-ensure-security.html443 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_Center_of_San_Francisco_Bay_Area444 this is something for me to think about. I do not yet have proposed solutions to all the problems.



studying challenges, then trying to figure out how we can do a betterjob of resolving them, and mitigating against future repetition.

VictimsThe victims who were fatally shot, in the Sikh Temple attack, includedfive men and one woman, identified as:445

Sita Singh, 41, Ranjit Singh, 49, Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65, Prakash Singh, 39, Paramjit Kaur, 41 Female (all the others are Male), and Suveg Singh, 84.

One of the dead was the President of the Temple, who tried to stopthe shooting, by attacking the shooter, bare-handed. He is now beinghailed as a hero. Although he had no chance personally, his actiongave others time to flee.

Four of the six were citizens of India, one being a recent visitor fromIndia, according to news media in India.446 One of the dead is arelative of the minister for Punjab, the state in India with the mostSikh.447

The day after the shooting, we learn that while all 3 wounded are stillin critical condition, and the police officer was hit with 9 bullets,including in his neck and cheek, he is now talking coherently withwell-wishers, believed to be out of immediate danger, will make arecovery, although it will be a long one.

What Happened?Police arrived within 3 minutes of the first 911 call. The calls weregarbled, confused, the police did not know what the situation was, butthey knew there was a problem due to an abundance of calls. The

445 Victims shot dead, in the Sikh Temple attack:http://www.oakcreekwi.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oak_Creek_shootinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all446 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/us-guruwdara-shooting-four-of-six-victims-were-indians/1/212087.html447 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pujab-ministers-relative-killed-in-us-shootout/1/212061.html



first police officer on scene found a wounded person in the parkinglot, and started attending to that person’s needs. That was Lt. BrianMurphy, who was then ambushed by the gunman, receiving 9 bullets,most hit him where he had body armor, but he got one each in theneck and cheek.

As other police arrived, they told the gunman to drop his weapon, tosurrender, but instead he shot at the police vehicles. Police returnedfire, killing the gunman. Here is info about Oak Creek Police OfficerLt. Brian Murphy who was injured in the line of duty at the SikhTemple.448

The temple has surveillance cameras, so the police will no doubt beable to reconstruct info to help with the investigation.

Shooter’s GunFederal officials said the gun, used in the Sikh Temple attack, hadbeen legally purchased.449 The weapon used in the killings wasdetermined to be a 9 mm semi-automatic hand gun.450 It waspurchased July 28, there was a 2 day waiting period, he picked it upJuly 30.

Shooter – Info so farAs with the Aurora situation, briefly share the guy’s identity, but thenin various write-ups, refer to him as:

Evil person Gunman, at the Sikh Temple Neo Nazi who attacked the Sikhs Religious Domestic Terrorist Shooter, at the Sikh Temple This individual person Traitor to our behavior standards Villain White Supremacist who attacked the Sikhs

448 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/449 Gun used by villain, in the Sikh Temple attack:http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/08/06/gunman-sikh-temple-attack-was-white-supremacist/ygMetwd9H1MkhsWUGsyXuJ/story.html450 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/



Use valid descriptions, but do not honor him by having his namescattered all over. Do not grant him any fame. Some villains do thiskind of thing because they want the history of the world to rememberthem, their name, along with other infamous people. By denying thisto them, we undermine such motivation for future copy cats.

Federal officials on Monday Aug-6 identified Wade Michael Page,age 40, as the slain attacker in a rampage that killed six people, plushimself, and left three others critically wounded at a house of worshipin Oak Creek, Wis., on Sunday Aug 5. 451

Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certainbiographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism, officials said Sunday.452

MotiveThe police think the villain was a lone shooter, but just in case, theyare taking precautions. Sikh temples nationwide are getting addedpolice protection.

At the beginning of the investigation, police say they do not yet knowmotive, but they are narrowing down possibilities.

There is at least one person of interest they are looking for, have notyet eliminated, won’t say why they looking for.

Within a few days, it became apparent to authorities that the Sikhtemple was attacked because the shooter targeted those people forracial or religious reasons, while the Aurora shooter was justrandomly shooting. They think that whoever happened to be at themidnight movie, and lived in the apartment complex, wereirrespective demographics of the villain’s motives. Thus the Sikhtemple incident was domestic terrorism, while the Aurora incident was

451 Villain identified, in the Sikh Temple attack:http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-shooter-discharged-demoted-army-20120806,0,6159499.storyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all452 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-domestic-terrorism-20120805,0,6094643.story



not. I agree with this assessment about the Sikh incident, but Iremain unconvinced about Aurora.

Something happened with the Aurora villain, which led his psychiatristto invoke UC BETA team (see Psychiatrist Concerns chapter) andnotify the police, that he was allegedly a danger to the University, andperhaps a larger community. We do not yet have details, thanks toJudge’s gag orders, and HIPAA confidentiality. People could live inthat apartment complex only if they had some relationship with theUniversity, so had the bombing been successful, he would have killedand maimed hundreds of people associated with the University. Inmy mind, that is either domestic terrorism, or mental ill. It is notrandom bombing.

The guy, the shooterThe FBI is tracing his life, talking to neighbors & anyone who knewhim, where ever he lived or traveled.

White SupremacistIn the USA, we have freedom of speech, freedom of thought. It is ouractions, and inactions for which we are to be held accountable.Unfortunately, the USA has long had a problem with some peoplewho hate others, based on the color of their skin, then translate theirhate into hate crimes. The best known such haters include:

Klu Klux Klan (KKK) which primarily targets Negros and Jews. The American Nazi Party, whose God is the teachings of Hitler,

and groups similar to the Nazis of the 1940’s, identifying withneo-Nazi philosophies.

Fortunately, these groups are a pale shadow of their former glory,thanks to being brought to face justice for their many atrocities. A fewgroups have been declared to be illegal, such as the AmericanCommunist Party, during the Cold War with the former Soviet Union.

These groups typically promote violent actions like those carried outagainst the Sikh Temple. Good resources for information about suchgroups include:

Southern Poverty Law Center US Civil Rights organizations in general Wikipedia



The gunman in the Sikh Temple shooting has been identified as aformer leader of a white supremacist heavy metal band,453 and a neo-Nazi. Their music lyrics promote genocide.

This is a challenge in the American system of freedom of speech,where some people promote dishonorable behavior, but verbalgarbage is not illegal. Then other people act on those horrible ideas.

In the initial days after the Sikh Temple shooting, it is unknown whythe shooter targeted this particular house of worship. There isspeculation that he was ignorant about religions, and was one ofthose who hate Muslims, but attack other religions, because theycannot tell the difference, like in Nazi Germany where many Catholicswere attacked because many Protestant Nazis could not distinguishbetween Jews and Catholics. This explains some disconnectbetween rhetoric and actions. We do not want any attacks, butsometimes cannot provide proper security for the targeted victims,when the troublemakers are so ignorant.

Neo NaziHis Facebook profile, which has since been taken down, included aswastika.

A former friend of the shooter, who knew him in the army, wasinterviewed on CNN’s Piers Morgan. We learned that the shooter, atthe Sikh Temple, often told people about a “Racial Holy War”against any non-whites, berated whites who had non-white friends asbeing race traitors, and participated in a band with similar sentimentsin the lyrics.It seemed to me that Piers questions elicited inconsistent replies.This former friend did not, until recently, really imagine that theperpetrator would actually do anything violent with these beliefs.

453 Shooter, at Sikh Temple, identified with White Supremacists and neo-Nazis.http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/08/06/gunman-sikh-temple-attack-was-white-supremacist/ygMetwd9H1MkhsWUGsyXuJ/story.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all



The former friend began to get concerned in 2000, and a coupleweeks ago was looking for newspaper stories about where maybesome action like this may have taken place.

Army DishonorThe suspected gunman in the Sikh temple shooting wasadministratively discharged from the Army in 1998 after beingdemoted in rank, according to his military service record.

According to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Aug 6, 2012,QUOTE454

Fred Allen Lucas, a Bloomington, Ind., man who served withthe shooter at Fort Bragg, N.C., in a psychological operationsbattalion, recalled that he spoke of the need for securing ahomeland for white people and referred to all non-whites as"dirt people."

UNQUOTE

While in the US Army, the shooter, at the Sikh temple, was demotedfrom sergeant to specialist and was not granted an honorabledischarge when he left the service. The US military is not (yet) sayingwhy this individual person had been stripped of his rank or whatnegative marks on his record led the Army to disqualify him from anhonorable discharge after his 6 1/2 years of service.455

Supposedly he was drunk on duty, according to a former friend of theshooter, who knew him in the army, interviewed on CNN’s PiersMorgan.

Civil Rights organizations, and US authorities, have been doing agood job of breaking up hate organizations, but the members, of thehate movement in America, continue to grow in numbers. Someyears ago, a neo Nazi group was found inside the US Army, which

454 http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/shooter-wade-page-was-army-vet-white-supremacist-856cn28-165123946.html455 Villain in Sikh Temple attack, his US Army record:http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-shooter-discharged-demoted-army-20120806,0,6159499.storyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all



got rid of it, but its members were not cured of their hate. This guywas a member of that group.

Congressional HearingsThe Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rightsheld a hearing on domestic terrorism and hate crimes,456 in large part as a response to theAugust 2012 shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. A relevant legalquestion, arising from the shooting, is whether it constitutes a “hate crime” or“terrorism,” or both.

Civil Rights OrganizationsThere are several activist organizations in the USA which promotepeace and harmony among humanity, some of which we expect mayhave useful info about the enemies of that harmony, and ideas howwe can work towards those laudable goals. They include:

Bnai Braith457 (Jewish). Sikh communities. Southern Poverty Law Center458 (Black) which keeps track of

many hate groups,459 and haters, including the guy who we nowknow as the shooter at the Sikh Temple.460

Investigating Aurora Co incidentsThe villain, in the Aurora massacre, is in police custody. He is 24year old James Eagan Holmes, who was born and raised in SanDiego. He attended University of California, Riverside, on anacademic scholarship, graduating with honors in spring 2010 with aB.S. in neuroscience. Then he went on to University of Colorado,Denver, as a graduate student of neuroscience, and also workedthere in a paid capacity, but recently dropped out, giving no reasonhow come.

This may be him in the phone book.461 I imagine his snail mail isbeing forwarded to some address of his defense team.

456 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/10/dawinder-s-sidhu-on-hate-crimes-terrorism-and-sikhs/http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/08/naunihal-singh-on-the-oak-creek-massacre/457 http://bnaibrith.org/latest_news/sikh_attack080612.cfm458 http://www.splcenter.org/459 Hate groups tracked by Southern Poverty Law Centerhttp://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/winter/hate-crime460 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021083319http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/shooter-wade-page-was-army-vet-white-supremacist-856cn28-165123946.html



His profile on various social media may have been taken down.462

These notes do not have his name repeated, deliberately.463 Ivariously refer to him as:

accused culprit mass murderer public enemy theater gunman villain

I avoid labeling him as deranged, or other mentally ill descriptions,since it is as yet unproven whether or not he had any mental illproblems, other than “normal” human distractions, which I list later,such as being addicted to drugs, or considering it acceptable toconduct a joker’s “joke” for real, which can be an evil personalityproblem.

Is it relevant that he is a white man?464

ChargesAt Mon 7-30 court hearing, the villain was told the 142 chargesagainst him.465 (so far … could change if one of the critically injuredwounded dies)

24 counts of first-degree murder; 116 counts of attempted murder; One "sentence enhancer" count for allegedly committing a

crime of violence; One count of possession of an explosive device.

The 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murderrepresent two counts for each of the slain and wounded victims in theshooting because prosecutors charged Holmes under two, separate

461 http://www.whitepages.com/name/James-E-Holmes/Aurora-CO/6bs9xui462 http://www.glocktalk.com/forums/member.php?u=33467463 One “excuse” for this sort of behavior are people who want to become famous, thanks to their identityshowing up in news reports, history, Wikipedia, etc. By denying this “fame” we may discourage futurestupid behavior from similar motivation.464 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-holmes-batman-race-20120723,0,3238833.story465 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21191265/hearing-underway-man-suspected-killing-12-aurora-theater?source=pkg



theories of first-degree murder. One is murder after deliberation andthe other is murder with extreme indifference.466

We expected at least 1 count for each of the 71 victims, who werekilled or wounded. We expected he would face charges of:

first-degree murder; attempted first-degree murder; aggravated assault; and weapons violations.

A former prosecutor said, that under Colorado law, he will probablynot be charged in the death of fetus, miscarried by the pregnantwoman shot in the theater.467

According to KDVR Time Line, QUOTE:468

He is being represented by Daniel King and Tamara Brady,chief trial attorney for the state public defender.

UNQUOTE

There are some questions we may never have answers to. Was the gunman on meds at the time of the shooting? (Other

than what he claimed to the police officers.)469

Did anyone see advance signs that this guy was a danger, anddid they try to inform relevant authorities? (In addition to whathis psychiatrist told the BETA team.)470

Captive Target AudienceThe theater was reportedly sold out, but I don’t know how many seatsin the theater … hundreds? I saw CENTURY 16471 on side ofbuilding, in the TV reports, so I figure there were 16 viewing theaters

466 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21191265/hearing-underway-man-suspected-killing-12-aurora-theater?source=pkg467 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21188313/suspect-wont-be-charged-connection-miscarriagehttp://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21182960/wounded-mother-6-year-old-theater-victim-suffers?source=pkg468 http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/at-least-14-killed-dozens-injured-in-shooting-at-aurora-movie-theater/469 See in Time Line July 19 approx 10 pm when he allegedly took 100mg of Vicodin.470 See “Psychiatrist Concerns” chapter.471 https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=aurora+colorado+shootings&fb=1&gl=us&hq=shootings&hnear=0x876c588622ba2b9b:0x8441e0688ba2e678,Aurora,+CO&sa=X&ei=JYQLUNDmMIn30gH3wsWQBA&ved=0CP0BEMgT



inside the main building. I saw several police scanner calls.Evidently this happened in viewing theater # NINE.

There are 40 cinemas in the immediate area, showing this movie.They are all getting extra security for the time being, as protectionagainst any copy cat.

I do not know the design of the theater where this happened. I doknow that if this had happened in my geographic area, it would havebeen a death trap, because the theaters are designed so that the onlyexit is down stairs to the front, where the mass murderer was located,then out corridors to the sides. A person could climb over the stairsrailing to the corridor below, then drop and break their legs. This wascomplicated by the theatre lights being off, and the villain firing teargas into the crowd. In my area, if there was a fire at the front of thetheater, where the public enemy was in this case, it would be damnnear impossible to evacuate the theater.

I listened to at least two different people, who said they had beeninside the theatre when this happened, whose stories were prettyconsistent. One of them saw how come the Exit door got unlocked,but when the shooting started, he was on the floor between the seats,not seeing many details. The other helped a wounded companionexit. Apparently the movie kept playing for a while after the shootingstarted, then when the movie ended, the lights did not come on,leaving the theatre completely in the dark.

Subsequent stories indicate the person who set the exit door to beunlocked, was the same person who later did the shooting. He hadbought a ticket, then jiggered the exit so he could get back in, went tohis car for his gear, came back in to do his thing.

Victim Recovery InfrastructureThe injured were treated at

Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, The Medical Center of Aurora, Parker Adventist Hospital, Rose Medical Center,



Swedish Hospital, University Hospital, and a makeshift hospital set up at the scene of the attack.

Counts of victims by hospital have been compiled on Reddit.472

No info will be released by authorities about victims, until victimfamilies have been notified. Gateway High School is being used as ameeting place, for victim support. The news media has been askedto give them space, as they cope with their grief.

Earlier, multiple bus loads of hundreds of witnesses were transportedfrom the theatre, to be interviewed at the Gateway school.

A different High School is being used as an evacuation center for the5 apartment buildings evacuated, due to the villain’s apartmentexplosive challenges. These are 3-5 floors with 6-10 units per floor.

Mental Health hot lines will be operating 24 hours over the weekend,to provide whatever help the community may need.

Shooter FamilySome news media claimed his family had said things, which a familystatement through a lawyer is denying.473

Shooter School CluesThe University of Colorado, Denver said it could not confirm or denyany reports nor discuss any aspects of the investigation, citing a gagorder placed on the case by a judge.

News media is reporting that the villain sent a package to one of theUniversity psychiatrists before the attack, describing a violentassault.474 The University has several psychiatrists working with theneuroscience program that the culprit was involved in. We now know

472 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wv8t1/comprehensive_timeline_aurora_massacre/473 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0723/Colorado-shooting-What-did-suspect-s-family-know-Mom-issues-clarification.-videohttp://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/07/holmes-mother-suggests-abc-news-mischaracterized-her-129835.html474 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/25/colorado-shooting-suspect-notebook-reports.html



that the package was addressed to Dr Fenton, who was the UCpsychiatrist, whom the villain was seeing, while he was a studentthere. Also see “Psychiatrist Concerns.”

I believe that when a person is considered to be a danger tothemselves, or to others, such a professional has a legal obligation towarn the potential victims, or the authorities, that this is an exceptionto medical privacy rules.

He had money for his education. In addition to being paid for work atthe University, he was on a $26k per year ($2,166 per month) NIH475

grant (taxpayer funded), which only goes to 6 new students per year,in a research project at the University of Colorado, which is refusingto answer many news media questions, and instructing Universitystaff and students to not talk with the media. They claimed to becooperating with the official investigation period. The news media gotsome info about the research project, before the web site was takendown. This University position was before the gag order.

He did not flunk out, although the school is not revealing his grades inthe oral exam which he took, shortly before he initiated hiswithdrawal.476 But later stories indicate that he did not do well in it.

Until his voluntary withdrawal June 10, whose paperwork was still inprogress at the time of the theater shooting, he was in a researchproject where each of the 6 students, with the NIH grant, had dailysupervision by a faculty monitor, and a team of others. If there wasanything mentally wrong with him, they should have observed this.

Withdrawal is extremely unusual, so there must have been intenseinteraction with why he was leaving. Withdrawal paperwork requiresreason why, and sign off by multiple staff. The University is silent onwhat that reason was, or who had signed off on it.

This secrecy will fuel a lot of media speculation, and maybe evensome conspiracy theories.

475 NIH = National Institutes of Health.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH9kD1P0bA0476 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21140571/cu-officials-defend-academic-personal-support-available-holmes?source=pkg



Psychiatrist ConcernsWe know, from several sources,477 that

Current psychiatry theory is that when there is an incidentinvolving someone doing something crazy from a mental healthperspective, there is leakage from them in advance of theevent, which can be detected by mental health professionals, intime to prevent the crazy event. Thus, mental healthprofessionals have an obligation to act, within the confines ofmedical privacy, when there is evidence of a potential threat toothers, or to themselves, to warn potential victims, and/or placea psychiatric hold on the disturbed individual.

The villain attended a neuroscience curriculum at University ofColorado (UC) for a year, in which there was daily monitoring ofhim by mental health professionals. If he was beginning todisplay mental health problems, would any of them havedetected what was happening, and would have been theirresponsibilities to the larger community?

In the wake of VA Tech, and some similar high profile incidentsat academic institutions in the USA, many colleges anduniversities in the US, now up to approx 80% of them, nowhave an organization, similar to University of Colorado Denver’s(UCD) Behavioral Evaluation and Threat Assessment (BETA)team. KMGH TV7 in Denver says: QUOTE478

o According to the university website, the BETA teamconsists of "key" staff members from various CUdepartments who have specific expertise in dealing withassessing potential threats on campus.

o UNQUOTEo The Denver Post points out: QUOTE479

o The group does not include CU-Denver police.o UNQUOTE

While a student at UC, the villain was seeing a psychiatrist,Doctor Fenton, who is also a high ranking official in the UCmental health community, who helped create the BETA team in

477 Also Anderson Cooper, on CNN, did a good job of putting this in perspective, Aug 1, thanks to aninvestigation by KMGH.TV7.478 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/31324092/detail.html479 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21212797/alleged-theater-gunman-was-referred-threat-assessment-team



2010.480 HIPAA,481 and other medical privacy rules, limit whatanyone may know, outside the doctor and patientcommunications. However, something triggered Dr. LynneFenton to be so worried, that six to seven weeks before theshooting, she took her concerns, about the villain, to the UCDBETA team.482

June 7 he did not do so well on his oral exam, then June 10 hedropped out, and by June 12, UC had cut off his access to thefacility.

His change in status was concurrent with UCD BETA teamdiscussions what the heck they should do about Dr. Fenton’sconcerns. When he was formally dropped from the UC campusparticipation, the BETA team thought he was now outside theirjurisdiction, and dropped their investigation. We do not yetknow for sure, thanks to Judge gag orders, whether theynotified any outside authorities regarding these unknownconcerns. However, KMGH TV7 in Denver says: QUOTE483

Sources say, officials at the University of Coloradonever contacted Aurora police with Fenton’sconcerns before the July 20 killings.

o UNQUOTEo The info available so far, does not let us know if any other

relevant authorities were, or were not, notified.484

The killings were at a movie which started midnite July 19-20. The rules of notification of psychiatric threat, vary with the state

laws, the university rules, the BETA team rules, and the natureof the problem discovered by the good doctor.

Dr. Fenton was the person to whom the package wasaddressed, containing a notebook, with alleged plans for whathe ultimately did.

Mon 7-23 Colorado University officially received the villain’snotebook with info about the planned killing.485 Fox news

480 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21212797/alleged-theater-gunman-was-referred-threat-assessment-team481 HIPAA = Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Acthttp://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/482 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/31324092/detail.html483 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7investigators/31324092/detail.html484 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21212797/alleged-theater-gunman-was-referred-threat-assessment-team



claims it arrived July-12 then sat unopened for a week, and hadit been opened promptly, the shootings might have beenaverted. However, if that was true, police going to theapartment might have set off the bombs, which might havekilled the occupants of 5 apartment buildings, maybe includingthe perpetrator.

PSU ParallelI see a parallel here with the child sex abuse scandals at PSU(Pennsylvania State University) and other similar patterns ofincidents.486 PSU administration received reports due to multiplewitnesses, and a complaining victim. They conducted internalinvestigations, determined:

In the case of the victim, that the victim’s allegations could notbe proven.

In the case of Jerry Sandusky showering with boys in theschool’s athletic building, he promised he would not do thatagain, at the school. He promised that after at least twoseparate incidents investigated.

In all scenarios, PSU was done, problem solved, PSU reputationprotected, no further action needed, no one else needs to beinformed. In my opinion, there is a design flaw, both with PSUinvestigations, and U of Co BETA team. At the conclusion, whenthey determine that no further action is to be taken, because THEIRinstitution is now protected, there needs to be an evaluation of theirresponsibility to a larger society, due to these alleged threats to thatlarger society.

After I uploaded version 0.6 of my notes, and informed G+ contactsthat this dimension was an element of what I had added since priorversion,487 there was further discussion of some of the implications.Richard Hoefer488 wrote: QUOTE

485 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21156393/theater-shooting-feds-say-suspect-may-have-mailed?source=pkghttp://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2012/0727/20120727_011819_2012-07-27%2012CR1522%20Motion%20D11.pdf486 I wrote about this extensively in my “Child Sex Abuse Scandal” notes, uploaded various places,before PC melt down caused me to lose my original notes copies.487 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/UwB55ktNa6W488 https://plus.google.com/u/0/112760224652737508626/about



As you know, threat assessment specialists say that the act of suddenlydropping out of school is exactly the behavior that warrants anintensification of concern following the disclosure from the Psych that shefelt he was a threat to students. ... As one commenter said at one of manysites I've been reading "It's Penn State all over again..." where a Universitychooses to avoid a potential problem vs. intervene... so they disavowthemselves of any responsibility because they have met their minimal dutyto protect students on campus. As another commenter says, there will beheavy litigation against the University after the trial and all these factscome out fully. Right now with the gag order there's only a trickle of info.The University is going to be paying hundreds of millions. Just to listen tothe Chancellor's careful word choices - 100% equivocation - as thoughnobody can read thru that smokescreen.

"Tto the best of our knowledge, at this point, we did everything we thinkwe could have done."

UNQUOTE

Statistics & ReactionsWith every alleged set of statistics, there is dispute about thebelievability of what gets quoted.

Several reports said the Aurora Cinema incident was the worst massshooting in the USA period. I believe there were some massacresinvolving American Indians, in the early days of US history, whichwere worse.489 Maybe we cannot count mass killings duringsupposed wars.

150-300 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux were killedand 51 wounded, at Wounded Knee, by the US Cavalry, December1880. 25 troopers died, and 39 wounded, mainly from theindiscriminate shooting in all directions, by the US military. Some ofthe wounded died later. In the modern era, this would have beenlabeled a war crime, or ethnic cleansing.

Several TV stories said the Aurora event was the worst massshooting in the U.S. since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood,Texas. Others said it was the worst in Colorado since the ColumbineHigh School massacre on April 20, 1999, in the Denver suburb ofLittleton, about 12 miles from the theatre of the latest incident. I think

489 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Dakota



that placement may change, if many of the critically injured get addedto the death toll.

In the aftermath of the Sikh Temple event, some news media issaying it’s the area’s second mass shooting involving a religiouscommunity in the past seven years. In 2005, a gunman killed sevenand then committed suicide at a church meeting in Brookfield, Wis.490

MSNBC says there have been at least 36 mass murders in the USAover the last 30 years. I remember many at schools.

Movie Theaters are a popular part of US culture, with over 1.3 billionannual customer visits. Movies appeal to all walks of life in America,including young people, and families.

While you would not know it from movies and TV, the USA is adeeply religious nation, which prides itself about freedom of religion,except with some vocal minorities. The landscape of every major UScity is dotted with houses of worship for every religious persuasionimaginable. The US constitution calls for separation of church andstate.

Both President Obama and Governor Romney suspended theirpolitics to pay tribute to the fallen in Colorado, and Wisconsin. ThePresident ordered all flags in the USA to be flown at half mast, afterthe Cinema shooting.

LawsuitsLegal experts say lawsuits do not stand much of a chance, based onthe info they are aware of so far. 491

The obvious culprit is the shooter. His assets cannot be sufficient tocompensate for a tiny fraction of the damage done.

For a lawsuit to be successful against the Cinema, people need toshow that the Cinema could reasonably anticipate that something like

490 Scale of shooting at a house of worship, near the Sikh Temple:http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-domestic-terrorism-20120805,0,6094643.story491 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21150830/legal-experts-say-liability-lawsuits-stand-little-chance?source=pkg



this might happen, and failed to take adequate measures. In manylawsuits, judges have ruled that companies which take samemeasures as are standard in an industry, even if they are inadequatesecurity, does not make them liable for not doing a better job.

I believe that having the rear exit door propped open at the beginningof the movie, was a red flag, and that sort of thing ought to bedetectable, to catch people coming in without paying, if nothing else.

I go to the movies occasionally. I have NEVER seen security guardsof any kind, at any of the Cinemas I have been to. There are somepeople criticizing this theater for not having any.492 In my opinion,had that Cinema had any, their presence would not have made aniota of difference in stopping the shooting, but they might have helpedget first responders in there faster.

Judge’s gag order blocks the University from telling the media whatwas known from professionals monitoring the shooter for a yearbefore the event, and what could be reasonably inferred from thedocumentation he delivered, indicating planned actions. Even if thecollege was found liable, as a governmental entity it has sovereignimmunity. The maximum award against CU could be only $150,000per person, with a total cap of $600,000 in cases involving more thanone person.493

Violence Death RatesPeople have indicated that we should let individual events dictatepublic policy, so it is worth reviewing whether those events areaberrations, or statistically relevant to our needs.

Mass shootings, of more than a few people, are pretty rare in theUSA, most of them involving educational institutions, and formeremployees “going postal”. The FBI says less than 1% of USshootings are of more than 5 people. However, shootings of 1-2people at a time, are a daily event in many large cities.

492 http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/lack-of-security-at-aurora-theater-eyed-1.3869201493 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21150830/legal-experts-say-liability-lawsuits-stand-little-chance?source=pkg



In some cities, 1 shooting death in 10 is by the police, many of themby mistake, where totally innocent people get killed by policeerrors.494

2/3 of US murders are via fire-arms. I do not know how many deathsare declared justifiable under self defense or stand-your-ground. I donot know how many missing people are really missing bodies.

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Table 20, Murder byState and Type of Weapon:495

All rifles combined together account for about 2.5% of reported homicides in theUnited States, making them the least misused of all classes of weapon in thiscountry (behind handguns, shotguns, edged weapons, blunt objects, and fists/feet).Many states report zero rifle murders in any given year.

Many places in America are gun-free zones. That means that insideof them, the only people with guns are criminals and lawenforcement. Examples: many theaters and schools.

Twice as many people die in USA, from suicide (just over 600k), thanfrom murder (just over 300k). Combined, that comes to almost 1million people.

There are 1 million abortions per year in USA.496 There are maybe 6million US pregnancies per year, 4 million live births, 1 million fetuslost by miscarriages and other mishaps.

More people die in the USA via gun violence, than Americans havedied in recent foreign wars, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. Othernations, which have gun bans, reputedly have problems with other kinds ofviolence, such as knives, leading to laws banning knives for children, even withfood. However, as the statistics below show, Western Europe has thelowest murder rates in the world.

494 http://www.policemisconduct.net/rethinking-police-shooting-policies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Policemisconductnet+%28PoliceMisconduct.net%29495 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl20.xls496 http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html



Everyone dies eventually.497 My current interest here is death due toviolence from fellow mankind, as opposed to disease, and accidents.

Here is the overall death rate per 1,000 population by nation.498 TheUSA is #87 out of 230 nations. South Africa and Russia have thegreatest death rates, overall.

Here is the rate of intentional killings (of another person, excludingsuicides) per 100,000 population by nation.499 Southern Africa,Central and Southern America, top the list, while Western Europe andJapan are at the bottom. When there is war, responsibility is less the nation,and more the warring parties. I suspect AIDS-denial has a lot to do with Africadeath rates, while the Americas may be more due to European then USAinterference in their natural development.

Here is the rate of suicides, by nation.500

Japan is in #7 place, a surprise given they have the lowest murder rate in theworld. I wonder if the recent Tsunami-Nuclear disaster has had any impact onthis.

I suspect published rates on abortion worldwide,501 may be flawed due to howstatistics are gathered where the act was illegal vs. legal and with the aid of adoctor.

Police vs. Felon KillingHere502 are US statistics 1976-1998 by DOJ503-BJS504 on: how oftenFelons kill Cops; how often Cops kill Felons; how much of this isjustified, or unjustified killing; and how do these statistics fall into totalhomicides in USA. These statistics are of:

Felons killing Police Officers … they are all presumed to beunjustified. Ie. In the USA there is no such thing as a Felonjustifiably killing a Police Officer. If a person kills a PoliceOfficer, that makes them a Felon by Definition, and there is nojustification in US law, to kill a Police Officer.

497 http://www.theonion.com/articles/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-100-percent,1670/498 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html499 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate501 http://www.abort73.com/abortion_facts/worldwide_abortion_statistics/502 bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/ph98.txt503 DOJ = Dept of Justice504 BJS = Bureau of Justice Statistics



Police Officers justifiably killing Felons. Anyone killed by thepolice is labeled a Felon, because at the time of them beingkilled, they were thought to be involved in a Felony.

This source has a lot more statistics, than I am quoting here. Itbreaks the participants down into race, age, US state, ratios …person of one race kill person of another, etc.

98% of Felons, justifiably killed by police, are male.97% of Felons, who murdered a Police Officer, are male.In both above cases, just over ½ of the Felons are aged 18-30, andjust over ½ of the Felons are white.

Police justifiably kill approx 400 Felons each year in USA.1 in 6 murders of a police officer result in the justifiable killing of themurderer.Of all justifiable homicides by police, only 3% occur in connection withthe murder of a police officer.

Together, justifiable homicide of Felons by Police, and murder ofPolice Officers by Felons, account for around 2% of all intentionalkillings in the USA, according to these statistics.

Other sources, in my notes, claim quite different statistics. I will betrying to correlate the different stories.

According to this source,505 10% of killings in the USA are by thepolice, and many of them are unjustified.

Mass Shootings in AmericaIn the wake of the incident at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the Indiannews media are now looking at violence in America.

India Today has an article on mass shootings in the USA since1999.506 I have seen similar lists in other publications, none of themappear to be complete. I will add to this.

505 http://www.policemisconduct.net/rethinking-police-shooting-policies/506 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html



In addition to mass shootings, there are attacks involving bombing,arson, hijacked vehicles as weapons, false info to the police, andother mayhem.

1999 April: Two teenage schoolboys shot and killed 12schoolmates and a teacher at Columbine High School inLittleton, Colorado, before killing themselves.507 This event wasadvertised a year in advance.

1999 July: A stock exchange trader in Atlanta, Georgia, killed12 people, including his wife and two children, before taking hisown life.508

2005 March: A man opened fire at a church service inBrookfield, Wisconsin, killing seven people.509

2007 April: Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people andwounded 15 others at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia,before shooting himself, making it the deadliest mass shootingin the United States after 2000,510 but not the deadliest masskilling, because of 9/11.

2007 August: Three Delaware State University students wereshot and killed in "execution style" by a 28-year-old and two 15-year-old boys. A fourth student was shot and stabbed.511

2007 December: A 20-year-old man killed nine people andinjured five others in a shopping center in Omaha, Nebraska.512

2008 September: A mentally ill man, who was released fromjail one month earlier, shot eight people in Alger, Washington,leaving six of them dead and the rest two wounded.513

2009 February: An Amish school, I forget details, 5 childrenkilled.514

507 Columbinehttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html508 Atlantahttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html509 Brookfieldhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html

510 VA Techhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html511 Delawarehttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html512 Omahahttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html513 Algerhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html514 Amish



2009 March,: A 28-year-old laid-off worker opened fire whiledriving a car through several towns in Alabama, killing 10people.515

2009 April: A man shot dead 13 people at a civic center inBinghamton, New York.516

2009 November: US Army psychologist Major Nidal Hasanopened fire at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, leaving 13dead and 42 others wounded.517

2011 January: A gunman opened fire at a public gatheringoutside a grocery in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people,including a nine-year-old girl, and wounding at least 12 others.Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured witha gunshot to the head.518

2012 July: A gunman used semi-automatic weapons to kill 12people and wound 58 others, in a movie theater in AuroraColorado, after setting bombs in his apartment, designed to killthe occupants of 5 apartment buildings, had police not savedthem. There was advance evidence that he was a threat tosociety.

2012 August: A gunman killed 6 people, severely wounded 3,at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, then died himself when heattacked the police. He was known long in advance to be amenace to society.

Guns in AmericaI believe much of the gun control debate is a side show to thisparticular incident. Had the culprit not had access to guns, he mighthave brought in a home made flame thrower, tossed containers ofgasoline into the crowd, and caused much more serious injuries.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-2059816.html515 Alabamahttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html516 Binghamtonhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html517 Ft Hoodhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html518 Giffordhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-since-1999/1/209346.html



That theater was a gun-free zone, with security inadequate to preventa disaster like this. Most all mass shootings are in gun-free zones,where security is inadequate to prevent a madman, or criminal, goingin and doing serious damage, against many law abiding targetsknown to be unarmed. When we have a society where there arepeople permitted to carry guns for protection, then criminals are lesslikely to prey on the rest of us.519 Because when seconds count, thepolice are minutes away, and that’s if a call to 911 does not keep uswaiting.

I have seen some statistics widely stated, which I share here, until Ihear or see evidence that those statistics are incorrect.

The guns used in the shooting, are legal for private citizens to own inthe USA, although not in all states. They are also legal to own inCanada.520

The major area of concern centers around the possession of aweapon able to fire bullets very rapidly without need for reloading. Ihave heard people, whom I would think ought to know, say:

It is legal to have 100 round magazine.521

It is illegal to have 100 round magazine. Major events like this have no lasting impact on people’s

opinions. After the attack on Congresswoman Gifford, using a 33 round

clip, 71% of the US public believed it should be illegal to havemore than a 10 round clip.

Also see Corrections section, for additional dimensions of conflictingstories, where it is highly unlikely that both sides can be correct.

The gun control lobby immediately jumped on this incident with theirusual politics, leading to the usual arguments in social media,although maybe different participants, as each generation grappleswith similar issues.

519 http://www.naturalnews.com/036551_how_to_stop_massacre_video.html520 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/07/25/colorado-guns-canada.html521 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/colorado-shooting-gun-show_n_1720761.html?ref=topbar



Gun control advocates rarely get re-elected in the USA, which is whymany former gun control politicians are now anti-gun control …getting re-elected is more important to them, than this topic.

It is not an issue of whether or not there should be gun control. Thereis gun control in the USA. The issue is whether people should haveweapons which rapidly kill other people, and whether some peopleshould not have access to guns.

The guns were all purchased legally, although there is debate overthe nature of the speed of fire, and volume of bullets available beforehaving to reload. I believe that some stuff which was illegal were infederal laws which expired, but were not renewed.

In Colorado, gun dealers need to record sales. There’s no centralregistry of who has what weapons, as is done with vehicle ownership.So a person can legally buy infinite weapons, getting each at differentgun stores, and it won’t raise any suspicions.

US crime rates have been falling, while movie violence has beenrising.

Bruce Schneier writes,522 QUOTEThe new thing about the Aurora shooting wasn't the weaponry, but the armor:Holmes didn't just kill a dozen people. He killed the NRA's answer to gunviolence.

UNQUOTESome good comments on the original post.This was not new. Other shooters have done similar before. The vest was notreal armor. A concerted return attack could have caused him to go down.

A major player in US politics over gun control is the NRA = NationalRifle Association. They seem to believe that everyone in Americashould have the right to be armed with anything they please,anywhere they please.523

Guns DiscussionsI am active on several social media networks, where I believe opinionated people are ableto have a civilized discussion.

522 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/lone_shooters_a.html523 http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/02/629351/nra-tennessee-maggart/



If you can find me on Google Plus,524 I am engaged in many vigorous threadsregarding many issues in the news, including the topics here. Here, I posted thefollowing opinion, QUOTE525

It is a combination of problems.Gangs are invading America. They may be a bigger threat than terrorists. Theycome from other nations other cultures, with no respect for human life.Gun safes which a child can open with a toothpick, and other brain dead designs.We register other deadly weapons like automobiles, restrict their use to peoplewho can use them safely.People knew, BEFORE the Aurora Shooter bought weapons and ammo, that hehad a serious MENTAL problem, yet the system is NOT designed to block gunsales to people who have mental problems. Aurora is like a replay of VA TECH.

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I am active in approx 50 special interest groups on Linked In.526 One of themis Crisis Response Journal,527 with about 750 members. One of the othermembers, Eelco H. Dykstra,528 posted a link for discussion, an op ed piecedeclaring that Guns Do Kill People.529 I posted to that thread, QUOTE:

Guns do not kill people, when the guns are not in the hands of people pulling thetrigger.With military drones, it is a combination of the policy makers, and the softwareassociated with the unmanned drones that no longer need a human operator.

Washington DC, and legislatures around the USA are divided precisely becausethe American people (voters) are deeply divided on many issues.

I believe the issues important to the Crisis Response Journal, are not gun control,why people with mental health problems cannot get good treatment, orperceptions of government oppression, but what is needed to help with disastermitigation, when the event happens, and should structures which attract largeaudiences (theaters, malls, schools, cruise ships) be designed better, so there isless loss of life when a mishap happens, and mishaps happen less likely.

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524 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts525 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/5HQ1mUMXc5U526 http://www.linkedin.com/in/almacintyre527 http://www.crisis-response.com/ This group is for those who wish to network with their peers tomitigate the effects of natural or man-made crises. This global professional community spans alldisciplines, including the business and private sectors, first responders, national/local government,academia and NGOs. The aim is simple: To protect life, safeguard property and preserve the environmentin the face of today's multiple threats and hazards..528 http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/eelco-h-dykstra/7/34a/945529 http://www.opednews.com/articles/Actually-Guns-Do-Kill-Peo-by-Michael-Roberts-120720-411.html?goback=.gde_3798271_member_136919663



Eelco H. Dykstra responded to my post, as follows. QUOTEThanks Al,Respectfully disagree with you simply because also the 'Response' phase isgreatly dependent on the issues you deem 'not important' to the crisis ResponseJournal. So here's not a "1-2-3" but a "1 thru 9" - also to stimulate furtherdiscussion... ;-)

1. Most gun-owners are reasonable and responsible people.2. Most players of 'first-shooter', violent video games are reasonable andresponsible people.3. Terrorists and the 'lone wulf' are, by definition, destructive and unreasonablepeople.4. (How) Can one reason with clearly unreasonable people?5. Never underestimate the emotional dimension of emergencies and theirmanagement.6. The gun-ownership debate also has a strong emotional dimension.7. Professional emergency management therefore is not only an exercise in ratioand reasoning but also of handling (wayward) emotions.8. To do this well, we need two essential ingredients. First to have emotionalintelligence, second to have studies emotions under crisis conditions9. Let's start by reading Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable....

UNQUOTEI may wait for other members of the group to chime in, before I saymuch more, because I had also launched a thread of my own, in thesame group, drawn from these notes, trying to nail down the factsknown to date, about this crisis in Aurora Colorado. I initiallyresponded to the above, with, QUOTE:

In my post about physical infrastructure which is the site of various disasters,maybe I should also have included our society, since it is conceptually like aphysical structure ... how people are likely to react to a crisis. There are publichealth campaigns to get more people to know first aid, for example, to helpimprove our response to future crises.

We might amend Mr. Dykstra's point @ 2<<Most players of 'first-shooter', violent video games are reasonable andresponsible people.>>Most people who are entertained by thrillers, in literature, or at the movies, arereasonable and responsible people.

I think Mr. Dykstra's point @ 3 needs to be split,The source of terrorism, or mass attacks, can come from various different sources.There are people with a mental health problem, such as the VA TECH shootings,the UNIBOMBER, and a person recently in NORWAY.There are people engaged in some kind of war, where the circumstances may nothave a consensus of everyone agreeing there is a war going on, or that the actions



taken by one side in that war were justified. The high court of Pakistan ruled thatUSA use of drones in that nation are terrorist war crimes, in violation of GenevaConventions. I can get you citations if you wish.

It is too soon to know whether the shooter in Aurora Colorado will be declaredmentally ill either by medical or legal definitions.

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Then I copied from my “Signs of Mental Illness” and “Evidence of Sanity” charts whichare later in these notes, and may get amended as more info comes out.

Kirk Kirkpatrick530 wrote, QUOTE:Question for the group.

If the "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument were logically sound (It isnot) then there would need to be another reason why the US death by gun rate would be aMAGNITUDE higher than other industrialized countries. To what should the rationalperson attribute this statistical abnormality?

Perhaps the American populace is simply more evil than our socio economic peers? Wehave 10 times the mental illness as the rest? None of the possibilities are attractive for theUS. Nor are they anything close to reality and no statistics will correlate.

The "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument is logically unsound from thefirst consideration.

This argument is over-simplistic and unrealistic. The "human factor" in this "equation" isa constant, not a variable. If we want to change the outcome of the "equation" we have tochange the variables.

Here is a thought experiment. Imagine 2 separate groups of ten men each. These groupsboth have an equal desire (human factor) to clear a large forest that is situated next totheir respective villages. But only one group has access to chainsaws or power saws. Theother group only has knives as cutting tools. Which group (of equal motivation) will bemore successful at clearing the forest?

CHAINSAWS DON'T CLEAR FORESTS, PEOPLE CLEAR FORESTS. Tell that to thegroup with the knives.

Guns are power tools for killing. They are enablers. The argument “someone” can kill“someone else” with a knife is not a logically valid part of this discussion. The argumentis not framed correctly when one considers, "How do we ELIMINATE killings," an “allor nothing” statement. Correctly stated is, "How do we severely reduce killings?" Onevery effective way is to reduce access to these power tools for killing. As every other

530 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdsamerica



society in our socioeconomic class has done.

Guns don’t kill people, people with GUNS kill people.

I lived a good bit of time in Kuwait (5 Years). When the Iraq invasion of Kuwait wasover, most Kuwaiti had guns since they used them for the resistance until they found thatusing such a weapon against a modern Army meant that your entire house or evenneighborhood got destroyed and your family all died.

However after the invasion Kuwaiti soon reached a murder rate that was equivalent to theUS murder rate. The Emir asked people (Actually decreed) for people to turn in theirweapons and the police confiscated the vast majority. Kuwait implemented Europeantype gun control.Today the gun murder rate of

Kuwait is .36 per 100,000 which compares favorably to .3 per for Germany or Holland and .22 per for Denmark. The US rate is 3.2 per 100,000.

UNQUOTEI don’t respond to someone with absolute statements, after I have shared mycontrary view. Not everyone is equal when it comes to desire and willingness tokill. I like to check out overall facts, to make sure data has been fairly presented.

HATE Movement in AmericaThe shooting at the Sikh Temple was by a mini-celebrity in the USHate Movement. Initially, there is info about that movement severalplaces in my notes. I intend to consolidate much of that in this newsection.

Mental IllnessAlso see “Psychiatrist Concerns” with what little we know so far,about clues six weeks in advance of the shooting, that this guy mightbe a threat.

There appears to be a lot of public confusion regarding correlationbetween mental illness and some of what we know so far about thevillain, reflected in an abundance of media stories.

Very smart vs. having psychiatric problemsI do not believe there’s a correlation between having extremeintelligence up or down vs. mental problems beyond dysfunctionfitting in. Being in the graduate program is not statistically unusual.



Yes, the Aurora shooter apparently got good grades, so do millions ofother students.

Violent vs. Mentally IllI do not believe there’s any correlation between being mentally ill, andbeing violent. There’s extreme evil in our world, there’s stupidity.That does not mean mentally disturbed. Unfortunately, hatred isnormal.

There’s a lot of speculation ahead of knowing the guy’s motives, ormental health situation. In my opinion, the problem is not theweapon, but the human heart, and reliability of mechanisms forredress of grievances, to undermine temptation for revolution. Fromthe dawn of human history we have had killing, with an evolution ofthe tools available. Cain and Abel was not a gun problem.531 So,does the Bible do a good job of describing who and what we are, as aHuman Species?

Will he face the death penalty?After his arraignment, the DA has 60 days to decide if she will seekthe death penalty, for the Aurora shooter and bomber. She plans todiscuss this with the victim families before deciding.532 Due toColorado term limits, the DA will be gone in 6 months.

Can he get a fair trial?I think if they skip jury trial, and have a judge rule on the evidence,that is possible. The judge has issued many gag orders, but a lot ofinfo continues to leak out, and much got out before the orders wereissued.

Not-guilty by reason of insanity?Is there a possibility the culprit will be found not-guilty by reason ofinsanity? The US judicial system finds people guilty of knowinglydoing wrong, but it varies by state law, under what conditions aninsanity plea can be used.

In Colorado

531 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel532 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOeyxIzmhw&feature=relmfu



1. Is he competent to assist in his own defense?2. Will his defense team (from public defender’s office) assert

insanity, in which case the burden will be on the prosecution toprove he is sane.

Signs of Mental Illness: Acting out fantasy persona of the Joker, who kills indiscriminately; Apartment booby traps (Joker’s “joke”) set with loud music, unlocked door,

so if anyone walked in, boom, but he told the police about this. Why setthe trap AND immediately tell about it?

Dropping out of University, with no explanation. He has to leave the apartment complex, because it is restricted to

students still at the University, so he asks if there are any vacancies insidethe same complex.533

He applied to join a Colorado gun range, June 25, but never became a member,after the owner became concerned over his "bizarre" message and behavior.534

Sudden changes in behavior can occur when a person gets radicalized, addicted tosome substance abuse, or goes mentally ill.

According to court papers, the villain was being treated bypsychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton, medical director of student mentalhealth services at the University of Colorado Denver, AnschutzMedical Campus.535

Evidence of Sanity: Surrendered peacefully to police; Asked for a lawyer; Exiting theater to dress up, using gas canisters. If he was insane, he

would have arrived at the theater dressed up, maybe carrying theweapons in a back pack.

Intricate plan to play the joker in theater, which took him several months toget all the materials;

Intricate sideshow at his apartment. A few days before his violent performance, he was at a bar, calm and

collected, drinking beer, and having a normal conversation about sportsteams.

He was able to have a relationship.

533 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-colorado-shooter-profile-20120724,0,2557062.story534 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/after-baffling-midnight-movie-shootings-sadness-shock-and-a-search-for-clues-in-colorado-163276876.html535 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnes/ci_21174600/aurora-theater-shooting-suspect-was-being-treated-by



NeitherDue to Judge’s gag order, we probably will not see, until the trial, exactly what hewrote with the notebook detailing the planned attack, which he sent to apsychiatrist professor at the University. Coherency of the write-up may indicate aderanged mind, or a sane one.

There are other aspects of the mass murderer, which are not obvious to me aseither insanity, or sanity, rather life style choices or consequences: Some of thisstuff might be disturbing to his parents, or other people who knew him, but I donot believe it is an indicator of either sanity or insanity.

His University major is related to altered states of mind, so the fact he isfixated on his major, lectures about it, does not mean he is crazy.536

Addicted to some drugs.537 Everyone has their areas of special interest. Legally stockpiling ammunition, and the outfit he dressed up in at the

theater. Sane or Insane is WHY he did this. Pro-Gun people are sayingthat both the volume of weapons and ammunition were not abnormal.

He recently had a relationship break-up. He was a loner. He was heavy into video gaming. He was trawling adult sex sites. He was losing weight. He colored his brown hair orange. He had a Batman mask and posters in his apartment. Spitting at people in jail, may be stupid, inviting a confrontation.538

Norway game plan … set up bombing one place (his apartment), then gooff to do shooting somewhere else (the theater).

His booking photo has a wild eyed look … drug abuse can do that. His court demeanor, like he was struggling to keep his eyes open … he

could have been drugged. The apartment complex was for people enrolled at the University. Since

he dropped out June 10, he had 30 days to get out of the apartment, andwas apparently overdue to do so.539

Questions of mental sanity, or responsible behavior, do not just extend to thevillain.

536 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9419299/Batman-Colorado-shooting-James-Holmes-fixated-by-altered-states-of-mind.html537 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176377/James-Holmes-Colorado-shooting-Gunman-used-drugs-killed-Heath-Ledger.html538 https://www.examiner.com/article/james-holmes-spitting-jail539 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177294/James-Holmes-broke-girlfriend-just-Dark-Knight-Rises-shooting-spree-Colorado.html?ICO=most_read_module



Match com thinks he is a good man for the ladies.540 On July 22 a member,only known as Diana, was shocked that she had received James Holmes' name asa match, and questioned this. Match.com has since removed his profile.

I see possible parallels with the VA TECH shooter and UNI BOMBER. Both ofthem apparently had high intellects and killed many strangers, for reasons thatsound totally crazy.

Columbine similaritiesThe shooters were known by many to have mental problems. They had a web sitedescribing their event, for a year in advance. Fellow students showed it to their parents,who showed it to the police, who said there is no crime here, so they cannot act. Theboys were also in trouble with the juvenile court, but somehow no one connected thedots, so the police did not realize the web site operators were baby criminals, and thejuvenile judge did not know about the web site.

Both attacks involved careful planning, stockpiling weapons, with similar death toll.Both were held where many young people are expected to gather, and think they aresafe.541 In recent years, they have been safer in movie theaters.

Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris allegedly were inspired by "TheBasketball Diaries," a 1978 book and 1995 movie in which a high school student wears ablack trench coat as he guns down classmates.542

During the weeks after the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, at least 3,000similar threats were made at U.S. schools, according to the National School SafetyCenter. The Secret Service found no discernible profile for Columbine poseurs.543

VA Tech similaritiesThe culprit was known by many to have mental problems, including a judge, and manyprofessors at the university. People with mental problems are not supposed to haveaccess to guns, in Virginia, or Colorado. But this only works when the background checkdata has that piece of information, which it did not, for the VA Tech shooter, nor theMovie Theater shooter.

In 2007, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui mailed a manifesto to NBC Newscomparing himself to "martyrs like Eric and Dylan."544

540 https://www.examiner.com/article/match-com-recommending-james-holmes-to-clients541 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21122102/aurora-theater-shooting-has-parallels-columbine?source=pkg542 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21168563/colorado-copycats-seek-attention-and-payback-experts-say?source=pkg543 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21168563/colorado-copycats-seek-attention-and-payback-experts-say?source=pkg544 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21168563/colorado-copycats-seek-attention-and-payback-experts-say?source=pkg



UNA BomberWe will probably never know who knew about his mental problems, which were given tohim by the CIA as an experiment in mind control. It came out much later, that he thoughtthe development of the airline industry was unhealthy for America, so initially hetargeted Airline executives.

PersonalI know, from personal experience, that there can be a heat-of-the-moment break fromreality. When I was his age, I had several episodes of losing my temper, and having noself-control, until the passion of the moment faded.

I consider myself to be of above average intelligence, yet my mental disruptions do notseem to me to have any correlation with our intelligence. I feel fortunate, that when Ihave experienced such disruptions, I have also had very rapid recovery.

One winter I was driving at 5 miles per hour on an icy road, and no matter what I did, Icould not stop the car sliding into ditch and rolling over on its side. As I emerged out ofwhat was now the top of the car, I saw a snow plow coming my way, a hell of a lot fasterthan I had been going, on the same patch of ice which demolished me, and the truck wastraveling sideways. I knew I needed to travel in the opposite direction, and climb upother side of the ditch, and do that immediately, but I could not get my body to obey mybrain. My body was frozen in place watching potential death unfolding. At seeminglythe last second, the truck regained traction and continued down the road where the truckdriver, and me driver, wanted to go.

During a labor management dispute, there were several confrontations, with a similarphenomena, where my brain got disconnected from what my body was doing. In onecase it was like I had an out-of-body experience, where my brain was watching my bodygo thru intricate maneuvers, but my brain had disconnected from any ability to alter thecourse of action. In another it was like my brain zoned out, and what I was seeing was adream.

There were no typical circumstances, but the incidents had a lot in common. Bam BamBam, a rapid series of dire shocks, where I felt there was a high risk of imminent death ifI did not do a right thing choice immediately. In fact, I was also making rapid decisionswhat to do to save myself, as the shocks mounted.

In one, the road had been blockaded by pickup trucks filled with men armed with longguns. I retreated, driving backwards, no room to turn around, in excess of speed limit,with the pickups in hot pursuit. I got to a turnabout, with the pickups blocking every roadout. Off road driving was not an option due to no traction in the mud. I was driving mycar in a tight circle, to make their aim difficult, when my mind shut down. I do not knowhow long this was until the IBM person I had gone there to meet, at the airport, woke meup by repeatedly yelling my name, after the union army had withdrawn.



We had need of tech support, where I had asked IBM to park their car at the policestation, which was outside the union combat zone, then I would meet them there. Butinstead IBM drove to the airport, which was inside the union combat zone, then called mefrom there, over phone lines I believed were tapped, desiring me to transport the brokenhardware to that location, where it would be swapped for replacement gear, as IBM hadlearned not to drive any closer, through the rings of union army lines, from priorepisodes. As I approached the airport, the IBM tech person saw the trouble I was having,getting through the union army lines, giving blow by blow witness testimony to his boss,over the phone, such as how many vehicles, how many road intersections, my success sofar in evading getting trapped, apparent efforts to ram me, how the guns were beingaimed, etc. I found out about this later, to my further embarrassment, that on an occasionwhere I had been unsuccessful dealing with a daily hassle, there was such high levelwitnessing.

I was also annoyed that the company chose to have me doing a major conversion,concurrent with all this nonsense going on.

I was greatly impressed with the movie, A Beautiful Mind, which demonstrated to methat for people hearing voices, or having hallucinations, that these fictions are as real asyou and me. The victim cannot tell the difference. After watching the movie, I soughtout the book(s), to learn about the economic theory which won him the Nobel Prize, andconfirm the factual basis of things presented in the movie.

I have a medical condition, which has been explained to me by a good doctor, whichinvolves visual hallucinations. Fortunately there are symptoms which give me advancewarning before another episode, so I can avoid them interfering with my life.

Aurora Trial Info (+more Jan 09+)Long before it happened, I predicted it might be like Ok City, with aseparate auditorium for victims & their families to watch via closedcircuit TV.

Trial Raw Chaotic Wounds (added Jan 09+)Some of the trial testimony reminded authorities of problems not yetfixed. Due to problems getting enough ambulances to the scenerapidly enough, victims were transported in police cars to thehospitals. Eight minutes into the crisis, police were asking forambulances, but the first emergency medical personnel did not arriveuntil twenty four minutes into the crisis. There were ambulancesclose to the disaster, which were either never called, or not called for½ hour. Meanwhile, the fire dept was directing ambulances to astaging area, when the police desperately needed them, but the area



in front of the theater was possibly too congested to bring inambulances. Thus, it is obvious there was a serious problem withmanaging rescue personnel. This has been known since the time ofthe disaster, but maybe forgotten by some city management, until trialtestimony reminded them of their responsibilities to fix this before thenext disaster. See the detail time line for more info on this mess.

The city now will be using an outside contractor to review thesituation, make recommendations what is needed to fix the obviousproblems.545

Not Know YetThere is stuff we may not know until the Aurora trial, because of themany gag orders of the judge. See topics of gag orders in the timeline.

Why did the tear gas explosions, which filled the theater with smoke,not set off some kind of fire alarm, and initiate subsequent safetymeasures?

Why did the shooter forcing the emergency exit door to be open,while he changed into his gear, not set off some kind of alert that theexit door was being used improperly?

Was he mentally ill, and did the mental health professionals at theUniversity, who saw him every day for a year, see trouble coming,and did they act on this?

Is Chaos a standard state-of-art associated with all crisis response? Iwrote about this in a separate essay.546

Mitigation IdeasI have a hobby interest in how humanity can do a better job mitigatingvarious disasters and conflicts. My attempt to grapple with incidentsoften starts with understanding what happened, before it isreasonable to conclude where there is room for improvement.

545 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_22336227/questions-raised-about-lack-ambulances-at-aurora-theater546 http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/chaos-in-disaster-response



Unfortunately, there are mountains of people suggesting solutions,which would not have prevented this unusual event.547 Don’t forgetthat this event’s toll is small compared to the nationwide toll ofviolence. Can we focus on the larger picture?

Preventing people from entering theaters in costumes, would nothave prevented this. The shooter was not in costume when heentered the theater. He propped open back exit door before gettinginto his costume.

Metal detectors at entrances to theaters, would not have preventedthis. The shooter brought his weapons in the back door. Besides,most mass shootings are in gun free zones. It is extremely rare forthere to be a mass shooting where other people are allowed to bearmed, for self defense. Attempting to block weapons going into aplace, if it is less than a perfect job, is like a neon sign “shoot me” forcriminals who know how to circumvent the security.

Back ExitI have argued in several posts in different social media, that therewas a problem with the Back Exit, or any Exit from the Theater, notbeing monitored for unusual usage, such as being propped open for½ hour at the beginning of the movie.

In one of those discussion places,548 there was a reply to me, whichmisconstrued what I was trying to communicate. QUOTE:

The primary purpose of the emergency exits is evacuation inthe event of fire. Until now the about the only perceived value ofkeeping exit doors locked against entry was to preventfreeloaders from sneaking in. The value of preventing this sortof "theft of service" for most shows is pretty small, especially ifthe freeloader visits the concession stand. Post-Aurora theaterproprietors will be expected to do something about proppedexits. I predict door state sensors on emergency exitsmonitored by theater staff will become the new normal, butalarms or strobes that interfere with paying customers enjoying

547 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/overreaction_an.html548 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/overreaction_an.html



their movie, or which might be misinterpreted as a fire alarm,will not catch on.

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I disagree with a lot of this. Exits from buildings are used by manypeople for many purposes, including emergency exit. Somebuildings, such as hotels, have signs warning that the use of this exitwill set off an alarm.The alarm could be a silent alarm. There could be a security camerapointed at the door, from outside the exit, so the security office cansee if there is a continuing problem, or not.

At cinemas, it is common practice for some patrons to park in back,leave at end of movie, by going out the Exits, not the front door.

Many communities have laws against preventing the use of exits,which have led to many deaths in some fires, and other disasters.Based on volume of seating, there are often building codes requiringsome number of exits, and lighting for them, which continues in apower outage.

When an exit is used normally, person pushes the bar, door opens,they exit, door closes behind them, and locks, so people cannot enterby the exit. What is unusual is for door to be propped open for ½hour and building security oblivious to that fact.

Dangerous RegistrationIn many states, pharmacists are required to keep records of who theysold certain drugs to, drugs which can be used as ingredients formeth labs. The intent is to limit sales to what most people need fortheir medical needs, unless a doctor’s prescription designates moreneeded for a particular family. So there is precedent for point of saleto record legal transactions, for the purpose of identifying, orpreventing excessive acquisition, and facilitating police investigations.

In Colorado, gun dealers are required to keep records of who theysold semi-automatic guns to. There is no central registry,coordinating this info.



This is a topic for which perhaps there should be analysis review,involving federal state and local police, academics, and legalprofessionals.

Should there be standards for those records, such as including photo-copy of buyer’s id, and having the records in a format which is friendlyfor computer copy input, allowing reasonable time for gun dealers toconvert to relevant supporting technology. How soon after sales, dothey need to transmit that info to the central registry?

First Responder CoordinationIn the time line, we have lots of messages which went between thevarious first responders. It seems evident that they needed to rapidlydecide how to deal with a situation, where the info available to themwas constantly changing, and some of the deciders were not rapidlyenough absorbing all the info they needed to make wise decisions.

In many ways, it is like a National Security problem, on a smallerscale. In most all National Security crises, it becomes evident, afteran event, that info was there, which could have been used to avert orseriously mitigate the event, but got buried in millions of other piecesof info, not relevant to the event. In my view, this is a dataorganization challenge. Better technology is needed, to serve thefirst responders, and those who protect the nation from externalthreats.

In this crisis, there were in fact multiple concurrent events, and theway the communication systems worked, the command structure wasnot able to do a good job of speedily sorting it out.

The shooting had taken place in theater 9. That locationneeded medical personnel.

Bullets had gone through the wall, with a few injured elsewhere. The front of the Cinema faced west. Scores of victims were out

front, and more coming, in need of medical attention andambulances. It made sense to stage ambulances at Dillards inthe Mall, or nearby, to serve those needs.

The back of the Cinema faced east. Maybe a dozen victimswere back there, with more coming, in need of medical



attention and ambulances. It made sense to stage ambulanceson or near Sable to serve their needs.

This was a mass causality event, requiring transport for scoresof victims to hospitals. Neighbor communities had ambulancesavailable, but contacting them to ask for their help, was a slowprocess.

The time line has links to information about the incident having adesperate need for more ambulances, which were slow to bedispatched, some available but never dispatched, some dispatched inresponse to police requests, but held in a staging area by the firedept. trying to deal with the related problem of traffic congestionaround the incident.

When reading the dispatch messages, it seemed like there was adrumbeat of requests for medical aid to various locations, which werenot getting into the brain of command. It seems to me that the SOSneeded more geographic clarity within the overall triage area:

Inside theater 9 of the Cinema; Outside front (west) entrance to the Cinema; Outside exit (east) exit to the Cinema.

It sounds to me like the Cinema could have used helicopter rescue.Helicopter could bring in medical personnel for MASH triage at eachof the key locations which had many victims, then helicopter transportvictims to hospitals. We were told that it took 20 minutes to go thruthe red tape to have neighbor cities supply ambulances, then theyhad transit time to get to the scene. How long would it have takenhelicopters to come help, from Buckley Air Force Base, had theybeen asked for help?

With GPS clarity in radio calls, like Zip-9 postal system, reports couldgo onto a military map, using ATC (Air Traffic Control) model, whereATC has many planes in motion, this crisis had many victims at thevarious crisis points, with the numbers evolving … how many needtransport to hospitals; how many need medical specialist right now;how many have been transported out; how many are left. Have thatmap statistical info on a screen which can be relayed to theambulance staging divisions.



Locations in need of more ambulances, other transportation, a doctor,or whatever, could have at night time police flashlight with color filterpointing straight up, color code for if medic, ambulance, whateverreinforcements needed here, turned off when need satisfied. Indaylight, perhaps a flag raised above the mob scene, to show wheresuch aid is needed right now.

This is a topic for which perhaps there should be analysis review,involving police, fire, medical, all first responders, academics andtechnology professionals.

From the stories published, before the judge’s gag order turned offthe tap of media access to the facts, it seemed like the police and firedepartments were failing to inter-communicate effectively. This isreminiscent of 9/11 NYC, where the city had one site for coordinatingcity disaster response, and it was located inside the WTC. Perhapsthe city of Denver needs such a coordination facility, not all eggs inone basket as in NYC, but in duplicated mobile facilities which can betowed to any site with extended needs.

Fire departments have a standard, of one alarm fire, two alarm fire,three alarm fire, etc. This indicates the volume of fire trucks whichneed to respond to an incident, depending on how serious it is, andhow high up the chain of command there is need for appropriate levelof incident commanders. Perhaps medical emergencies need asimilar standard, so that with a plane crash, or other mass casualtyevent, a similar labeling can indicate the urgency with whichadditional medical resources are needed on site.

With modern computer tools, it is possible to have three dimensionalmaps of cities, identifying key resources, where there are traffic jams,on-going incidents, accessible shared by all relevant citydepartments. This to help coordinate optimal management of limitedresources to deal with the community’s needs.

Ambulances can be parked around the city, in the parking areas ofmajor retailers, in the vicinity of major cross streets, for rapiddispatching to where needed. Then after one has been removedfrom its station, the others can be redirected to alternative stagingareas, to avoid leaving a hole in the city wide emergency coverage.



Traffic lights can have controls such that as an emergency vehicleapproaches an intersection, it sends a radio signal out ahead of it, tocause the signals which it is approaching:

Orange flashing in the middle = an emergency vehicle is in thearea, everyone please make room.

Red light for cross traffic which otherwise would enter theintersection in area where emergency vehicle needs to get thru.

Green flashing light for traffic in front of where the emergencyvehicle will soon arrive, so it knows to get out of the way, makeroom.

Provision for more than one emergency vehicle approachingthe same intersection, so they do not both collide.

Legal rules ban anyone, other than support for emergencyvehicles, messing with these traffic light controls.

Personal preparednessSome day you may be in a similar situation, to the Aurora shooting.Will you remember what to do? Here is a DHS video on how tomaximize your chances of survival.549

Tips from the video, include:

Run if a safe path is available. Always try and escape orevacuate even if others insist on staying.

Encourage others to leave with you but don’t let the indecisionof others slow down your own effort to escape.

Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others fromwalking into the danger zone and call 9-1-1.

If you can’t get out safely, find a place to hide. When hiding, turn out lights, remember to lock doors and

silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone As a last resort, working together or alone, act with aggression,

use improvised weapons and fight.

There has also been discussion and interviews about this on TV,such as Dr Drew on HLN. The basic advice is:

549 http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/dhs-funded-video-advises-how-to-survive-shooting-attack



1. Run away, or find egress, if at all practical.2. If that not practical, then Hide, barricade yourself, stay quiet,

which includes turning off cell phones.550

3. If that not doable either, then Fight.

If you are with your car, get in a position so the engine block isbetween you & the shooter, since that is the best armor.

Unless your body freezes like mine did in the Personal anecdotesdescribed elsewhere in these notes, duck down so the seating givessome cover. Did you have a soft drink? Do you have a face cloth orhanky? Wet the cloth with the drink, over your nose and mouth, toblock the junk making it difficult to breathe. Urge or help theatercompanions and neighbors to also take cover.

Comparative ReligionI believe our education system, at the secondary school level, needsto include:

Why the USA is NOT at war with Islam. What is profiling, and why it does not work. When a person chooses to wear symbols of their religion, why

that usually is a reflection of their devout beliefs, and notsomeone forcing them against their will to wear somethinghateful.

From the perspective of a person wearing such symbols, suchas long hair for the Amish, how serious a religious crime is it forsomeone to forcibly remove those symbols, such as a recentcrime wave of people cutting the hair of Amish.

From their appearance, dress, hair, head gear, jewelry, etc.what distinguishes Jews, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists,etc. and what are their primary beliefs … are there anyexceptions to the general rule that NONE of them preach thekind of nonsense that stereotypes about them depict, forexample, a non-Christian might think that Catholics arecannibals, when they celebrate the consumption of symbols ofJesus Christ. As ridiculous as that notion might sound to a

550 I think if you can make your cell phone silent, and keep your mouth shut, calling 911 and sending text,is the civic duty, but it could get you killed, if the trouble maker is tracking cell phone traffic to its source.



Christian, many Christians have similar notions about otherreligions which are equally ridiculous.

What ideologies do preach such hatred, such as neo Nazis? Why is it not illegal, in the USA, to be a neo Nazi, or white

supremacist? The concept of primary sources of information. Statistics.

Links for Aurora Colorado IncidentsSome relevant web sites might be slow to access, due to largenumbers of people around the world compared to normal traffic.

Official updates about the incident and aftermath:

Police:https://www.auroragov.org/cs/groups/public/documents/document/011667.pdfhttps://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/Police/index.htmCourt documents:http://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/District/Case_Details.cfm?Case_ID=152

Maps:From the info below, I figure out that the Cinema is to the SE of theTown Center Mall, which has approx 125 specialty stores.551 One ofthose stores is Dillard’s, whose parking area is used as the firststaging area for ambulances arriving on scene, from there to bedirected to where most needed.The Cinema, and other establishments around the Mall, are boundedby:

Alameda to the North Sable to the East Exposition to the South Abilene to the West.

551 http://www.simon.com/mall/?id=232



It looks to me, not being there, just looking at the photos and maps,that emergency rescue can get from Sable to the back exits of thetheater. So Sable, at back of theater, became a second staging area,for arriving ambulances, and additional fire department rescue.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/20/us/The-Shooting-in-Aurora.html

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21116739/map-aurora-theater-shootinghttp://www.denverpost.com/ci_21116739/map-aurora-theater-shooting

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=215825429070503534994.0004c54220ecf36ae8b71&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=39.670199,-104.886475&spn=0.184986,0.411987&z=11&source=embed

US:official&client=fire https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-fox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=aurora+colorado+shootings&fb=1&gl=us&hq=shootings&hnear=0x876c588622ba2b9b:0x8441e0688ba2e678,Aurora,+CO&sa=X&ei=JYQLUNDmMIn30gH3wsWQBA&ved=0CP0BEMgT

Maps of shooting epidemic overall USA.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/24/interactive-map-the-us-shooting-epidemic.html

Unofficial time lines:http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/07/20/reuters-tv-witnesses-how-colorado-gunman-massacred?videoId=236606067&videoChannel=117849

General info about the city:https://www.auroragov.org/www.aurorasentinel.com/http://www.city-data.com/city/Aurora-Colorado.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Colorado

Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora ColoradoIt is located to the south of Denver International Airport.Home of the 460th Space Wing.http://www.buckley.af.mil/http://www.buckley.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123310760https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_Air_Force_Basehttp://www.airport-data.com/airport/BKF/maps.html



http://www.shopmyexchange.com/ExchangeLocations/BuckleyAFB_maps.htmSome navy personnel, from this base, were in the theatre.

General news reports about the movie theatre event.

CBS Denver.552

Articles and videos at CBS News James Holmes (Batman Shootings, Aurora, Colo.) collected news and

commentary at The New York Times 2012 Aurora shooting collected news, blog,553 and commentary at The Denver

Post554

Google real time updates.555

2012 Aurora shooting collected news and commentary at The Guardian KMGH TV7 in Denver area. 2012 Aurora massacre time line, organized on Reddit by a Denver resident.556

9 News Denver.557

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7415706nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57476379/mass-shooting-at-batman-premiere-in-denver-suburb-suburb-aurora-colorado/?tag=nl.e879

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/22/colorado-governor-in-a-funny-way-this-guy-is-a-terrorist/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176718/Father-left-BABY-floor-massacre-cinema--child-rescued-mother-shot-leg.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-identified-a_n_1688776.html#livebloghttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-identified-a_n_1688776.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-aurora-shooting-medical-student_n_1689794.html558

http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?newsid=197547&catname=World

552 http://denver.cbslocal.com/553 http://live.denverpost.com/Event/Aurora_Theater_Shooting_July_20_2012554 Terms of Use, for info found in The Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse555

https://www.google.com/news/rtc?cf=all&ned=us&ncl=d96MLSVWBMwCa6MmD_S0EtmdwB2CM&topic=h556 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wv8t1/comprehensive_timeline_aurora_massacre/557 http://www.9news.com/558 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/index.html



http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec12/colorado2_07-20.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-21/colorado-shooting-victim-identities/56389076/1

News media, in the Denver area, are engaged in pooling. Thismeans that tapes of interviews with victims, info from the hospitals,other sources, are shipped out to all the news media in the area, formutual sharing.559

Stories at KDVRVideo: Investigation into suspected gunman leads to San Diego. Hendrik Sybrandyreports.Video: In-depth coverage: Victims identified as investigation into shooting spreecontinuesVideo: Columbine principal no stranger to tragedyVideo: Suspect described as “smart, quirky loner” Hendrik Sybrandy reports fromsuspect’s childhood neighborhood in San Diego.Video: Many victims in theater shooting were kidsVideo: Aurora Public Schools opens its doors to victims, evacuees (press release)Video: Suspected gunman fits profile of a lone gunman, expert saysVideo: Theaters boost security in wake of Aurora shootingsVideo: Alleged gunman passed background check, legally purchased weaponsPhoto Gallery: Aurora theater shooting scene, suspect’s booby-trapped apartment …Video: Police detain man enraged over loss of child in Aurora theater shootingVideo: Man shared beers with suspect, called him ‘well-educated’ owner of ‘intelligentsmirk’Web Poll: Should it be legal to own an assault rifle?Raw Video: Raw Video: 3-month-old injured in Aurora theater shooting released fromhospitalRaw Video: Crowd exits Aurora theater after shooting …YouTube Video: Scene outside Aurora theater shooting …Raw Video: Witnesses say ‘bullets were flying through wall’ of Aurora theater …Raw Audio: Police radio communications from Aurora theater shooting …Raw Video: Morning Aurora Police press conference from theater shooting …Raw Video: Emotional Aurora theater shooting witness describes seeing woundedchildren …Social Media: Follow the public reaction online …Raw Video: Witness says shooter ‘had the gun in my face’

559 http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/182888/denver-tv-stations-pool-interviews-with-theater-shooting-victims-families/



Miracle Survivals:http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/07/23/james-holmes-shooting-survivor-petra-anderson-survived-rare-brain-defect/

Dealing with the shooter’s apartment:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/21/aurora-shooting-robot-detonate-boobytrap?google_editors_picks=true

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/07/21/police-find-explosives-at-colorado-shoot?videoId=236616424&videoChannel=1http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/07/21/preparing-for-controlled-detonation-in-c?videoId=236617770&videoChannel=1http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/07/21/police-carry-out-controlled-explosion-at?videoId=236617980&videoChannel=1

Stories about the shooter’s background:https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/us/pain-and-puzzles-in-wake-of-deadly-colorado-attack.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/21/us-usa-shooting-denver-idUSBRE86J0AM20120721

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/after-baffling-midnight-movie-shootings-sadness-shock-and-a-search-for-clues-in-colorado-163276876.html

RedditMultiple links and threads.560

Comprehensive Time Line Part 1561

Part 2562

Part 3563

Part 12564

Part 14565

560 http://www.reddit.com/user/shankee561 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wv8t1/comprehensive_timeline_aurora_massacre/562 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wvb5e/comprehensive_timeline_part_2_aurora_massacre/563 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wvimc/comprehensive_timeline_part_3_aurora_massacre/564 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wziul/comprehensive_timeline_part_12_aurora_massacre/565 http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/x33h9/comprehensive_timeline_part_14_aurora_massacre/



Gun Law debate flares up again:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57477294/colo-shooting-re-ignites-gun-control-debate/

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/07/21/denver-shooting-raises-gun-law-questions?videoId=236615674&videoChannel=1

Advance terrorist alertFBI-DHS566 warning May 17, 2012 of possible attacks on massgatherings, such as Theaters in the USA.567

google cache of the warning;568 .pdf download via google cache;569 original link which was taken down off Google [now has been

restored :^) ].570

This is based on an April 2012 suicide bombing of a theater in Somalia and aviolent extremist communication advocating attacks on US theaters highlightingterrorists’ continued interest in attacking such venues. There was no knownspecific intelligence pointing at the person in Aurora Colorado. I suspect this wascoincidental, since there are an infinity of alerts on an infinity of different kinds ofnamed targets.

566 FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation.DHS = Department of Homeland Security.567 https://newsworldwide.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/7212012-fbi-theater-attack-warning-issued-on-may-17-2012/568

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zVGvdC5GMmcJ:info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-FBI-TheaterAttacks.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us

569 http://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-FBI-TheaterAttacks.pdf

570 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:zVGvdC5GMmcJ:info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-FBI-TheaterAttacks.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg2lv6XNlHvPrswxAMhhR7UqbnbJY24kjYVkED1JI4pj2UZ9tIs_ANPnt_c3xiWcdF3uCUvNLcnTXcgLVrkkKwLE4BKN-O2dOUcplCoX6Ae0GB2Omzuj0FQFHsm1AM7DIDbUBwv&sig=AHIEtbToRYC40hrBe3hhLzjHzns8d_UTPA&pli=1 In my Google Doc Drive general collection of notes on various disasters and crises, I seek to1. Get at the Facts.2. Evaluate various ideas on how we can do a better job of mitigating such events.



Investigating Newtown CT School incident

Links for Attack on Wisconsin Sikh TempleI will try to put full urls in the footnotes, hyperlinks in my text. Iimagine in the days ahead, some of these sites will have more infoupdates, worth checking. Also see general FAQ near the beginningof this document.

Official Sources and Big PictureThe mass shooting began 10 am CDT571 Sunday Aug-5 at a SikhTemple in Oak Creek, south of Milwaukee Wisconsin,along Lake Michigan. There will be a press briefing by local andfederal authorities at Oak Creek police HQ, 10 am CDT Monday Aug-6.Temple officials, interviewed on local TV, said that prior to theshooting event they had received strange phone calls, and seensuspicious individuals in proximity to the Temple.572 I am waitingpatiently to hear what the police have to say about this.

City of Oak Creek Wisconsin,573 just south of Milwaukee,574 Here iswebsite of Oak Creek Police Dept there.575

I suspect Oak Creek is a small community without the resources tohandle this situation without help from other regional communities,and federal authorities.

The FBI has taken charge of the criminal investigation. They aretreating it as an act of domestic terrorism. Here is the Milwaukee WIoffice of the FBI.576

571 CDT = Central Daylight Savings Time.CDT is UTC/GMT – 6 hours to get CST (Central Standard Time) = 1 hour to CDT.Most Sikh live in Punjab India. India does not use daylight savings time. India Standard Time isUTC/GMT + 5 ½ hours. Thus 10 am CDT = 18.30 hours IST … I am using army time, because I do notknow if India uses am pm or not.572 I saw this on Wikipedia, will add better citation when I have it.573 Oak Creek WI http://www.oakcreekwi.org/ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Creek,_WisconsinInfo on the shooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oak_Creek_shooting574 Milwaukeehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee575 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/police/index.htm576 http://www.fbi.gov/milwaukee/



Froedtert Hospital577 in Milwaukee, is where the critically woundedwere sent. As of Sun nite, Aug-5, they had an update on thecondition of these victims.

See footnotes for introductions to the Sikh religion for those of us whomay be a bit ignorant about it, and desire greater understanding.578

Here is the website for the Sikh temple of Wisconsin.579 Some oftheir links appear to be broken, which may be related to the recentattack. They started with 20-25 families, grew to a congregation of300-450 people, bought the acreage where their beautiful temple nowstands. It was completed in 2007.

News Media closest to the Sikh CommunityThe Sikh Temple site of the shooting was in Oak Creek, a little southof Milwaukee, where:

the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel has a page toorganize articles on this developing story.580

News Media in IndiaThere are also publications in India, which are organizing relatedarticles on this developing story, including:

India Today.581

Al Mac NotesI have uploaded copy of my Mass Shooting notes to my:

Google Drive Documents Collection = Disaster Avoidance andMitigation;582

Linked In Box Net shared documents;583

577 http://www.froedtert.com/home.aspxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froedtert_Hospital578 Sikh Religion, an introduction.http://www.sikhs.org/summary.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhismhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/5-things-you-should-know-about-sikhism_n_1744657.html?utm_hp_ref=religion579 http://www.sikhtempleofwisconsin.com/location.html580 http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/165082506.html581 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/category/indians-abroad/1/185.html582 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw/edit



Scribd.584

I informed Facebook, and other, pals about Google collection update.

If you are following my updates on the Newton CT incident, and areable to print any of it, I suggest you print pages 1-4, to get at relevantTable of Contents, and first footnote. Then scroll down to page 2 ofTOC where page 72 is on the list, to see chapters you might want tovisit. Also note bottom page 4 of TOC where you can navigate toextreme summary of what’s been added with latest edition.

Newton CT Elementary School additionMy notes about Newtown CT were:

Version 1.0 = 3 pages 71-73 1.0 (Doc 1.5m), 2 reads on Scribd,when I got to editing break point early afternoon Dec 14. It was44 reads (+42), thanks to other people interest, when I returnednear midnite Dec-14 to upload next edition.

Version 1.1 = 10 pages 71-80 (PDF 690k), with 48 reads onScribd, after uploaded, and description edited.

Version 1.2 = 20 pages, from near bottom of page 71, to verytop of page 91 (PDF 732k),585 had 81 reads, 8 pm when Ireturned to upload my latest effort. (+33)

Version 1.3 = 28 pages on Newton CT incident coverage,starting page 72. Before uploading this (PDF 785k) to Scribd, ithad 144 reads (+63). Then I adjusted the summary text, so itbecame 148 reads by time I was done, about 10 am Dec-17.

o Starting page 100 I have other notable incidents, becausemany news media is saying this is the worst ever, oralmost worst ever, which seems statistically unlikely, andfollows pattern we see with other disasters in the news.Every storm is the worst, every tornado is the worst, everyhumanitarian disaster is the worst. It is like they don’tknow English grammar, mean to use the word latest, butsay worst instead.

o Statistically, occasionally the latest will be the worst, but ifhundreds of the same kind of incident … natural disaster,

583 http://www.linkedin.com/in/almacintyre In early December, Linked In took away the Box NetApplication, but I have been able to access, on Box net the 129 files involved. I still have to figure out howto get public access to my stuff again.584 http://www.scribd.com/doc/116862199/Mass-Shootings585 At this point, the notes had grown to: Doc 1.6m, PDF 732k.



human violence, are always worst ever, then mankind hasgot to be behaving incredibly stupid. Well some of us arebehaving stupid, but even so, there are darn few latestwhich I have checked out, and found Yes they really werethe worst ever.

Version 1.4 = 36 pages on Newton CT incident coverage,starting page 72. Before uploading this (Doc 1,680k) to Scribd,it had 172 reads (+36). The result seemed messed up, so Imade a (PDF 818k) re-share attempt, which also seemed like ablank result. I adjusted summary text, so it became 177 readsby time I was done, about 4 am Dec-18.

o Because last two efforts looked blank to me on Scribd, Ialso uploaded version 1.4 to Google Drive DisasterAvoidance Collection.586

Version 1.5: Newton CT notes run from page 72 thru 121 (50pages) Doc = 1,763 k. PDF = 862k. Scribd copy is no longerblank.

Version 1.6: Newton CT notes run from page 72 thru 128 (55pages) Doc = 1,839 k. PDF = 903k.

Version 1.7:o Newton CT notes run from page 74 thru 146 (72 pages),

about 30% more stuff than in last sharing.o Aurora CO had about 3 pages added, see time line pages

39-44, and a bit more info near page 184.

Version 1.8I uploaded version 1.7 Jan 09-10 late nite, then incremented version# for the next sharing.There has been a steady drum beat, several times each week, of newinfo getting added to the Newton CT notes.

Version 1.7I uploaded version 1.6 Dec-25 evening, then I incremented theversion #, for intermittent additions of more info.Since last sharing, I had added about 10% more stuff on Sandy Hook(from 50 pages to 55 pages), scattered throughout, and a small bit on

586 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw/edit



the ambush of firemen on Christmas Eve (following the Sandy Hookinfo.

Version 1.6I uploaded version 1.5 near midnite Dec-19-20, then I incrementedthe version #, for intermittent additions of more info.

Version 1.5I uploaded version 1.4 wee hours Dec-18, then I incremented theversion #, for intermittent additions of more info.The section on bogus stories is growing. There are untrained newsmedia personnel, and there are people creating hoaxes andconspiracy theories.Scribd is in midst of changes, and until they get finished, a lot of ourstuff are blank pages, so my priority is to Google Drive collection.

Version 1.4I uploaded version 1.3 early morning Dec-17, then I incremented theversion #, for intermittent additions of more info. We continue to getfloods of new info from news media. No idea how much of it will turnout to be more sewage. I add in parentheses after chapter headings,where significant new info got added.

Version 1.3I uploaded version 1.2 early evening Dec-15, then I incremented theversion #, for intermittent additions of more info.

Some chapters end with (date etc.) where I indicate where I hadinserted, added, or updated significant volume.

One new chapter = Making Safer Schools, where I shared severaldifferent “proposals” I have seen in the news, adding my comments toshow why I think some of these ideas are either seriously flawed, orneed to be run past someone who knows what they are talking about.

I added 2 chapters for Mental Health.1. Challenges facing the victim families



2. What info has come out so far on the culprits, where I suspectmost of that info is sewage.587

I have become disgusted with news media disregard for truth. Someconflicting info is shown where it cannot possibly all be true, but I donot yet know which story (if any) is the truth. In some cases I am ableto show what is definitely bogus, and how I know it is bogus, movingthat stuff to its own chapter section.

Version 1.2I uploaded version 1.1 late nite Dec-14, when it was time for me towind down me looking into this story, get to a break point in day jobduties, and get some sleep.

Many chapters related to the latest main event, got minor additions.Where significant new stuff, I adjusted chapter headings text., brokechapters into pieces with new headings.

Version 1.2 had approx 20 pages about Newton CT.

Some info from Dec-14 is getting clarified, but we continue to havelots of new info, with the same level of confusion and conflictingstories as when this story broke on the news.

Version 1.1I uploaded version 1.0 mid day Dec-14, when the initial news had theusual conflicting stories we always see when a new story is breaking.

Version 1.1 had approx 10 pages about Newton CT.

I had divided the info into what I was most sure correct, what still veryuncertain, grouped it into categories, and done some fact checking onclaims of several news anchors that this was the worst mass shootingat a school in US history. Well I agree it was one of the worst, but notas bad as VA Tech in 2007, where 32 died, and not the worst killingat a US school, because 425 died in New London Tx in 1937.

587 In my notes on the Japan Nuclear disaster, I had info from the “horse’s mouth” and infosources at the other end of the horse. I am seeing a lot of the same kind of reality with thisstory.



Version 1.0Dec 14 news broke about Newtown CT; I added info about it to thesenotes; shared initial info,588 much of which is probably bogus due todifferent witnesses perspectives, incomplete stories.

Version 1.0 had approx 3 pages about Newton CT, plus minoradjustment to very top, identifying the 3 main mass shootings in thesenotes.

Version 0.9Aug 7 early evening, I uploaded version 0.8.

119 pages overallo Approximatelyo 61 Coloradoo 30 Wisconsino 28 Both

408 footnotes, inflated thanks to some citations shared withmultiple different threads.

Table of Contents = 132 chapterso Approximatelyo 77 Coloradoo 40 Wisconsino 15 Both

537 kb PDF size 25% approx increase in content since version 0.7.

V 0.9 Combined new updatesDoes it matter that the two situations are getting different levels ofnews media attention? I think that is a reflection on problems in oursociety. I address that at the very top.

On social media, there has been a discussion of whether left or rightwing terrorists are responsible for the most trouble. I start with aneffort to define which is which.

588 http://www.scribd.com/doc/116862199/Mass-Shootings



V 0.9 Aurora new updatesI moved all the copy cat incidents into their own section, insteadof being buried in the general time line, and then got a bunch moreincidents.

V 0.9 Sikh new updatesIn Corrections and Conflicting Stories section, see

Suicide = we now know the gunman killed himself, rather thansurrender to authorities.

There’s also miscellaneous text updates throughout.

Version 0.8Aug 7 early evening, I uploaded version 0.8.

119 pages overallo Approximatelyo 61 Coloradoo 30 Wisconsino 28 Both

408 footnotes, a bit inflated due to some citations shared withmultiple different threads.

Table of Contents = 132 chapterso Approximatelyo 77 Coloradoo 40 Wisconsino 15 Both

537 kb PDF size 25% approx increase in content since version 0.7.

Aug 5 late evening, I uploaded version 0.7. 92 pages, approx 12 on shooting at Sikh temple, 80 on events

in Aurora Colorado, overall this is an increase in 14 pages sincethe prior edition – I would not have shared at this time, were itnot for the explosion of info about the Sikh temple incident;

314 footnotes, citing my sources whenever practical; 101 chapter headings in TOC, 10 on shooting at Sikh temple,

91 on events in Aurora Colorado; 429k approx PDF size. 15-20% increase in content volume since prior sharing.



For several days, the Sikh Temple has captured my attention, awayfrom the Olympic Games, and many other topics, although the Marslanding is also a major interest for me. There has been an explosionof info beyond what I can absorb and properly correlate.

Aurora important new info, not yet correlated into these notes: Police were allegedly told, in advance of the July 20 shooting,

that this guy in Aurora was a threat to others.

I updated multiple sections of these notes, with more info about theshooting at the Sikh Temple.

Corrections & Conflicts sections, near the top, one each Auroraand Wisconsin, with info where either the earlier story wasfound to be wrong, or we are hearing some very differentversions of reality.

FAQ near beginning of document, addressing commonquestions for people who may have not paid much attention tothe Sikh religion.

Investigation sections, one each Aurora and Wisconsin, withlots new info on the Sikh Temple and the Shooter.

Links section split into Aurora and Wisconsin, starting withofficial sources.

Links to some of my relevant G+ notes near very end. Mitigation ideas, near bottom. Significant growth of more info learned in Investigation section. Statistics & Reactions … more info. Time Line Aug 5 and vicinity.

I updated sections which that are common to both Aurora and Sikhsituations.

Navigating my notes – aid added up top. As data floods in, which I want to include, I initially stick one

place which seems to make sense, then as more comes in, Ineed some kind of reorganization, new chapters.

Version 0.7 Sikh Temple Wisconsin dimensionAug-3-4 midnite I uploaded version 0.6.



79 pages; 29 page time line so far (50 pages other stuff); 288 footnotes, including same source cited for multiple facts; 80 chapter headings in TOC; 350k approx PDF size.

Aug 5 late evening, I uploaded version 0.7. 92 pages, approx 12 on shooting at Sikh temple, 80 on events

in Aurora Colorado, overall this is an increase in 14 pages sincethe prior edition – I would not have shared at this time, were itnot for the explosion of info about the Sikh temple incident;

314 footnotes, citing my sources whenever practical; 101 chapter headings in TOC, 10 on shooting at Sikh temple,

91 on events in Aurora Colorado; 429k approx PDF size. 15-20% increase in content volume since prior sharing.

Aug 5, Wisconsin Sikh Temple incident hit the news, and I includedwhat I knew about it here, since it was another mass shooting, toosoon to understand or know a lot of details. I expected manyreactions to this latest event, similar to reactions to the Auroraincidents, so maybe make sense to organize together, any pros andcons.

FAQ near beginning of document, has info about the Sikhreligion, and I calculated time zone difference between theWisconsin news story, and India, so people there can knowwhen to expect relevant news, from upcoming pressconference. Approx 6 pages of this.

Time Line Aug 5 and vicinity, is exploding with info about thislatest shooting. Approx 5 pages of this.

Links at the bottom have started to identify key locations for infoabout the community and the investigation. Initially just over apage of this.

Prior to the Sikh story, I had added a small amount to theAurora story, but not much, since my last installment.



Aurora headlines still to absorb actual detailsI am way behind on absorbing news coming out about the situation inAurora.

The University of Colorado is now following the playbook ofPennsylvania State University … they have high level legalreview started, to advise them on what if anything they shouldhave done differently with their awareness that this guy was apotential risk to the community.

o It sounds to me like the same kind of denial as IndianaState leadership claiming they did not know what they didwrong with the Fairgrounds, so as to absolve themselvesof any blame, or legal vulnerability for allegedly notunderstanding National Weather Service alerts watchwarnings etc. or having anyone on staff who had accessto the info, understood it, and with authority to takeappropriate action;589

o or Japanese politicians to claim that the nuclear tsunamidisaster was beyond imagining, after they had censoredseismic and tsunami professionals, and nuclearengineers, who told them exactly what was going tohappen, if corrective measures were not taken.

o It is normal for politicians to claim they totally ignorant ofreality, wait for professionals to say what should be done,except when no disaster yet. I recognize theresometimes can be a turn-over in personnel, between thepeople who set us up for disaster, and the people incharge when it happens. But in many recent disasters,the same people set us up, were in charge when theyhappened, then claimed to be ignorant of the risks.

Victims of the theater are facing a life of hell, for many reasons. Some trauma for the shooter’s neighbors, who learned about

the danger posed by their proximity to the bomb factory. Police are on to some con artists collecting money, they say for

the victims, but really to line their own pockets. More info on some of the copy cats. The Aurora shooter now has an on-line fan club.

589 I am particularly dismayed that the State Police participated in playing of this game. They of all people,should have a hierarchy that understands the risks, so that public can be warned in a timely manner.



Version 0.6 Psychiatrist NewsJuly 29 I uploaded Version 0.5.

52 pages; 18 page time line (34 pages other stuff); 150 footnotes including many first responder radio call details

from a small volume or sources; 64 chapter headings in TOC; 228k approx PDF size.

Aug-3-4 midnite I uploaded version 0.6. 79 pages; 29 page time line so far (50 pages other stuff); 288 footnotes, including same source cited for multiple facts; 80 chapter headings in TOC; 350k approx PDF size. 50% growth, approx, since prior upload.

In the interim, 0.6 <= 0.5, there had been many additions, throughoutmy notes, I have additional info sources I have not yet fully explored.Some statistics have been challenged, so I am on the hunt foralternative sources.

Some new chapters, some with new info, some justreorganization of info, such as: Psychiatrist Concerns; Policevs. Felon; Personal Preparedness; Back Exit;

We now know what the villain is being charged with. I am still working my way thru some sources, such as Reddit. I have more to be added, re-organized, I am just re-sharing due

to volume of additions since prior sharing.

Version 0.5July 27 I uploaded Version 0.4.

31 pages; 68 footnote sources; 39 chapter headings in TOC; 4 page time line; 150k approx PDF size.

July 29 I uploaded Version 0.5. 52 pages;



150 footnotes including many first responder radio call detailsfrom a small volume or sources;

64 chapter headings in TOC; 18 page time line; 228k approx PDF size. 50% increase in content, approx.

In the interim, 0.5 <= 0.4, there had been many additions, plus I haveadditional info sources I have not yet fully explored.

Time Line got the most significant growth, leading to greaterunderstanding of the challenges facing first responders.

Time Line is up to 4 copy cats, 2 stupid, 2 dangerous.

Version 0.4 <= 0.3July 23 I uploaded Version 0.3.

18 pages; 29 footnote sources, plus many more in links section. 18 chapter headings in TOC; 4 page time line; 90k approx PDF size.

July 27 I uploaded Version 0.4. 31 pages; 68 footnote sources; 39 chapter headings in TOC; 1 page time line; 150k approx PDF size. 50% increase in content, approx.

In the interim, 0.4 <= 0.3, there had been many additions. Many chapters had additional info. Some content rearranged. Chapters split into sub-sections as the info there grew, such as

Time Line, which got:o More details on advance preparations for violence;o Info on (3 each): Copy Cats; Gag Orders;o Events after my 7-23 sharing.

I got more clues on insane vs. sane regarding this culprit. Ishared Personal info on exposure to Temporary Insanity.

Sections were added with: Corrections; Mitigation.



Some new chapters, whose content has not yet been fleshedout, such as Heroism; Not Know Yet.

Al’s G+ on Sikh ThreadsHere are some of Al Mac posts to Google Plus, regarding thedeveloping news story about the attack(s) on the Sikh Temple inWisconsin. Times are approximate. I am on CDT, in SW Indiana,which is same time zone as Wisconsin.

For many of my posts regarding the attack on the Sikh Temple in OakCreek Wisconsin, I generally shared them with the following of my G+circles:

All Al = a handful of people who have asked to get copies ofALL my posts;

India interest group = people and pages in India, or interestedin India;

Security = people interested in a spectrum of security topics,including national security, cyber security, physical security;

Current Events Progressive = people both interested in, andable to discuss current events in a civilized manner which ispolite to the Progressive wing of the political spectrum.

If you are looking for other people relevant posts, I suggest you useGoogle Plus Search, with one or more of the following keywords:

Sikh Temple Shooting Sikh Wisconsin Oak Creek Wisconsin Milwaukee Domestic Terrorism Neo-Nazi White Supremacist

Aug-8 Wed afternoon / evening3 pm I posted link to US News and World Report article590 asking whythe Sikh scenario is not getting as much coverage as the Aurorasituation.591 I go into that in more detail near the top of these notes. I

590 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/08/08/is-the-media-undercovering-the-wisconsin-sikh-temple-shooting591 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/j161sVbBpZr



also notice the pictures selected to be used in some articles. Is itappropriate to be frequently showing pictures of grief-stricken people,or is that a violation of their privacy?

Aug-7 afternoon / evening6 pm I posted link to where I had just uploaded version 0.8 of thesenotes, with navigation aid to latest new info on Sikh threads.592

3 pm I posted about motives, comparing Sikh and Aurora.593 Basedon the info which has come out so far, I agree with the official positionon Sikh, disagree on Aurora.

Aug-7 Tues wee hours2.30 am I shared a round up of the big picture, which I have got sofar, on conflicting stories about the crime wave against Sikhs inAmerica.594

2 am I shared link to a Milwaukee newspaper595 which has a lot ofarticles about this developing story.596

1.30 am I shared link to statistics of hate crimes in the USA beingmuch higher than what is in the official police statistics,597 to helpcorrelate one of several conflicting stories in the news media.598

Aug-6 Mon afternoon / evening7.30 pm I shared list of names of the six victims, who were killed,excluding the shooter.599 They were five men and one woman, aged39 to 84. I do not yet have in my notes, the names of the other twocritically wounded victims, in addition to the police officer.

7 pm, I shared600 Info about Oak Creek Police Officer Lt. BrianMurphy who was injured in the line of duty at the Sikh Temple.Lieutenant Brian Murphy was the Oak Creek Officer shot during

592 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/eYjyevCqwXo593 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/GTh9DHnMaPm594 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/SRZfiBcNZUr595 http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/165082506.html596 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/aoseQnseKuR597 http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/winter/hate-crime598 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/BkNuG1aGXN5599 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/4GzzxZVhdup600 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/LXa6AxTt1Zf



yesterday’s Temple incident. Officer Murphy was sworn in as an OakCreek Police Officer, April 15, 1991, and was promoted to Sergeanton April 5, 2001, advancing to his current position of Lieutenant, onApril 24, 2007. The prayers and best wishes of all Brian’s coworkers,the Oak Creek community and the larger national community areoffered to him, his family and friends.601 In addition to my usual G+contacts, I also shared this with First Responders.

6.30 pm I shared602 a humblingMessage from the Sikh Community in Oak Creek Wisconsin:603

If you wish to donate food, please donate to your local foodpantry.604

If you wish to send flowers, please send them to your own localplace of worship, or your local Sikh temple.605

If you are moved to volunteer, please donate your time andtalent in your own community.

601 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/murphy.htm602 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/AeJQQavGv9Z603 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/sikhstatement.htm604 I live in Evansville Indiana, which does have this kind of institution:. Perhaps $ donation best.

http://www.tristatefoodbank.org/

Tri-State Food Bank Inc., 801 E. Michigan Street, Evansville, IN 47711-5631

http://www.foodpantries.org/li/adams-food-pantry

Adams Food Pantry, 314 SE Riverside Dr. (back door), Evansville, IN – 47708

http://www.foodpantries.org/li/simpson_united_methodist_church_47712-5125

Food Pantry at Simpson United Methodist Church, 2201 W Illinois StEvansville, IN - 47712-5125

Lots more, see http://www.foodpantries.org/ci/in-evansville

605 According to Wikipedia list of Sikh temples around the USA, there are none in Evansville, Indiana,where I am. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gurdwaras_in_the_United_States#Indiana The closest isin Indianapolis In;



We encourage you to honor the victims by volunteering in yourown place of worship, or your local Sikh Temple.

Contact Information for Victims Memorial Fund:Sikh Temple of Wisconsin7512 S. Howell Avenue, Oak Creek, WI 53154

4 pm I shared link to Wikipedia article about Sikh Diaspora (wherepeople of the Sikh religion have migrated around planet Earth.606

Then I added comments with links to: Sikhism statistics by country;607

History of Sikh Diaspora in North America;608

Directory of SIX Sikh Temples in Wisconsin.609

4 pm I shared link to where people on Wikipedia610 have a project toimprove the quality of info that exists there about the Sikh religion.611

Aug-6 Mon wee hours2 am Sikhs at nearby Bowling Alley, who when interviewed, did notapparently have access to critical info which had come out at theAug-5 4 pm Press Conferences, and which they had a serious needfor.612 This story had been published in Israel.613

1.30 am News update and correction, regarding guns found at thescene, and other news,614 which I had got from CNN.

Aug-5 Sun afternoon / evening11 pm Link shared to my Google Drive Document Collection ofDisaster Mitigation Research615, announcing that I had just uploadedversion 0.7 of these notes, available for others to download, and whatwas most significant new info within them, of relevance to the

606 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/5jDkgqfdKqx607 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_by_country608 http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-heritage/5753-history-of-sikh-diaspora-canada-usa.html609 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gurdwaras_in_the_United_States#Wisconsin610 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sikhism611 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/5oczgzVTcux612 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/HXBdZmGzyvh613 http://www.haaretz.com/small-tight-knit-wisconsin-sikh-community-shocked-by-shooting-1.456261614 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/C6MgxGMUpgz615 https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw/edit



shooting at the Sikh Temple.616 At the time of this info sharing, I alsoinformed my Facebook status.

11 pm Unfortunate history of hate crime attacks against Sikhs inUSA,617 in Buzz Feed.618

10 pm collection of official info links,619 which I had found so far,including:

Time Zone math ingredients between US Central DaylightSavings Time, and Time in India, where most Sikhs located.

City government, where this happened; Police department, where this happened; Local FBI office, handling this case; Hospital, where the critically wounded got taken; Sikh Temple which got victimized; Sikh introduction for us religion illiterates to get a crash course

on its basics; Wikipedia starting points.

9.45 pm link to Froedtert Hospital,620 in Milwaukee, where thecritically wounded got taken, whose web site had an update on theircondition.621 If we revisit the hospital link periodically, we can see thatthe hospital has been doing updates to their update.

9.30 pm I shared my circle of links to people and pages in India, orinterested in India, on G+.622 At time of sharing, there were 143there. Since that sharing, I have added more contacts to that circle.

On Google Plus, we have both real people, and pages fororganizations. Contact rules work a little differently for people vs.pages. We can have circles for contacts who share various interests.I have many for topics,623 geography,624 and professions.625

616 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/ShhhXhZPXpt617 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/PLisQFnDb4o618 http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/a-tragic-history-of-hate-crimes-against-sikhs-in-t619 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/Mi3hrneTPuD620 http://www.froedtert.com/home.aspx621 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/6f9yYMNzPgH622 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/Nt6BAwL2Juj623 Topics of my G+ circles include: The Environment; Science and Engineering; Science Fiction; BookLovers; Legal Implications of events in the News; Technology in general; Security.



9 pm I shared the main Wikipedia site, of info about the shooting atthe Sikh Temple,626 warning people to revisit this place periodically,as it continues to get more updates.627 If you are not familiar with thegoals of Wikipedia, I suggest you visit the associated TALK page.628

There is a wealth of additional info there.

9 pm I shared links to the City of Oak Creek Wisconsin,629 and to theirPolice Dept.630 This site is worth revisiting, since there are occasionalupdates.9 pm I shared link to the web site of the Sikh Temple in Oak CreekWisconsin631 which had been the site of the shooting.632 I pointed outthat there is no point phoning them. Only the police are there rightnow.

8 pm I posted explanation of Time Zone Math,633 to clarify timesassociated with recent places in our news.

7 pm I posted a bunch of links associated with, what I called, a crashcourse in understanding the Sikh religion.634

2 pm, and earlier, I posted several links with the breaking news,before anything had been confirmed, and there were a lot of wildrumors and speculation. The shooting had occurred at 10 am, butthis news did not come to my attention until early afternoon.

624 I have several G+ circles based on a common interest in some Geographical part of the world, in whichthe largest in my collection, are now: India; Haiti; my immediate region centered on SW Indiana; Japan;Russia and Eastern Europe.625 There are some G+ circles focused on people who work in, or support key professions, such as: THELAW; First Responders (police, fire, medical); Business leaders; Government; Google employees.626 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oak_Creek_shooting627 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/6iMa4hu8cAD628 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2012_Oak_Creek_shooting629 http://www.oakcreekwi.org/630 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/WozdEpcmxcjCity of Oak CreekPolice Dept http://www.oakcreekwi.org/police/index.htm631 http://www.sikhtempleofwisconsin.com/location.html632 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/1Cz1VeLM1Nq633 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/fXV9vxUXXfn634 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/SutYPKVSBJH



Humor in Bad TasteI found this amusing, hope it is not offensive.

Aurora ReactionsFound on G+

ARA: If more people were armed, he wouldn't have tried itAnti-Gun: He shouldn't have been able to buy this stuff legally and so easilyPro-Life: He merely performed very very late term abortionsPro-Choice: If his mother had had an abortion, this wouldn't have happenedPETA: IF he had been a cow, it would have been justifiable self-defenseCattlemen’s Association: Those people should have eaten steak instead of going tomoviesTheists: He was godlessAtheists: He did it in the name of godConservatives: Hollywood causes this kind of violenceLiberals: Conservatives cause this kind of hateRomney: Represents failed Obama economic policiesObama: Romney profited from it.AMA: They need better mental healthcare!ABA: Look at all the money on the table, boys, it's Christmas come early!Fox News: Burger KingMSNBC: Taco BellCNN: McDonald'sGoogle+: What broader social implications will there be because of this?Facebook: Does anyone have a cute pic of his puppy I can LIKE?