The news hit the airwaves like a sudden onslaught, and the truth
began to sink in. It has happened again. This time, 50 people shot while
attending the midnight premier of the last in the Batman sequence, “The
Dark Knight Rises.”
According to press reports, a 24-year-old man burst
into the crowded theater, wearing a gas mask and carrying an arsenal.
After deploying what is believed to be tear gas, he opened fire with a
shotgun, a rifle, and two handguns. At least 12 people are dead, and
dozens are injured, many critically.
Over 100 police officers responded to the scene in Aurora, just a few
miles from Columbine High School, where in 1999 two high school
students killed 12 fellow students and one teacher in a rampage that
also injured 21 other students. That school massacre became a milestone
in the nation’s legacy of violence. Now, yet another Denver suburb joins
that tragic list.
The inevitable media swarm focuses on the data first — the who, what,
when, and where questions. Then they, along with the public at large,
begin to ask the why question. That is always the hard one. Continue at Al Mohler
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