GUNMAN RAMPAGE AT BATMAN MOVIE PREMIERE
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster."-- Friedrich Nietzsche At least 12 people are dead and dozens are wounded in the aftermath of a one-man shooting rampage in the city of Aurora, Colorado . According to a police officer on the scene, James Holmes , 24, identified himself as "the Joker" when confronted by authorities after Holmes entered a packed movie theater showing the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises and started shooting at the audience. http://tinyurl.com/733xbsd Subsequently, Holmes reportedly surrendered to police without a fight, and is currently in custody. Despite his declaration of affiliation with the iconic Batman arch-villain, Holmes had entered the theater in costuming more closely resembling the current antagonist in the Rises film, the terrorist leader Bane . In recent months, Holmes was a graduate student studying medicine at a local Colorado university. In keeping with "super villain" modus...