Like many of you out there, I have been following closely the events surrounding the recent shooting at the Dark Knight Rises premiere in Aurora, Colorado. I am personally (as most are) enraged and appalled by the events that took place. People looking for an escape were forced into a horrible situation. During a time that should have been one of joy, expectation and excitement, one psychopathic douche bag with a bunch of guns destroyed the illusion that we, as a species, can have some place where we are safe. The world of fantasy has been intruded upon by reality and to me, a writer of fiction, this makes the crime even worse.
But the anger I feel has been compounded. Not by the lack of any explanation or reason behind the killings - I have plenty of rage generating from that source. It is by the reaction of some of those who were victims of the tragedy. I recently read that one individual decided that he was going to sue not only the murderer’s doctors, but also the movie theater and the producers of the film, Warner Brothers.
