Another mass shooting at a movie theater
July 24, 2015 Leave a comment
There was the horrifying mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. James Holmes, killed 12 people during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” now last night, John Russell Houser, in Lafayette, Louisiana opened fire killing two and injuring several more..
When Col. Michael D. Edmonson, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police,was asked at a news conference “Why did he come here? Why did he do that?” he responded, “We don’t know that,” “We may not find a motive.”
As I prepare to head off to the Traverse City Film Festival, where I will be spending 16 -18 hours each day in or around theaters, I am both saddened and frightened. There is seldom a week that passes where I’m not in a movie theater, this latest shooting was during a comedy; so clearly no showing of any film is free from the prospect of some crazy, pulling out a gun and killing a random number of people. Yes, there is something frightening about that reality. I am also a great lover of film, and of watching them on a “Big screen,” and yes, in the company of others. Comedies are funnier when you’re in a room filled with other people laughing, Horror films do not have the same power when watched at home.
My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones, or saw friends and family injured in this senseless rampage.
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