No-one seems to have mentioned some things reported in this morning's The Times (ie the prominent UK paper). Holmes dressed up as The Joker & declared himself to be the Joker while firing. Some people thought at first, they said after, that he was some sort of support act to the film supplied by the cinema. The New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly [whose role in the matter is unclear to me as the incident occurred a longlong way from there] is quoted as commenting that Holmes "clearly looks like a deranged individual [How about that for understetament-of-the-century!]. He had his hair painted red, he said he was the Joker."

I quote these, not as part of the argument re gun control ~~ we all know that we over here have an entirely different view to most over there ~~ but for any evidential value that might be thus provided as to state of mind of the perpetrator.

~Michael~

Another point of interest, indirectly related, is that our leading tennis player Andy Murray, no 4 in the world, is a survivor of the Dunblane school shooting of 1996. He ran and hid in an empty classroom, apparently.