Saturday, July 21, 2012

Colorado 'Dark Knight Rises' Shooting

The first day of Ramadhan, and the world was shocked with this news.


Colorado, USA....reminds me of the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, which also happened in the state of Colorado. Two senior students embarked on on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students. The pair then committed suicide.


About 20 minutes into the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at Aurora's Century 16 theater, in Denver suburb, Colorado, a gunman, suspected to be James Holmes, entered through an emergency exit and opened fire on unsuspecting movie goers and left 12 dead and 58 injured. Witnesses say gunman wearing gas mask released smoke or teargas bomb before shooting people. 


A man said to be in his early 20s, carrying a knife, rifle and handgun and wearing a bulletproof vest was arrested without a struggle in a car park behind the cinema. 



The masked gunman arrested for the shooting rampage, who later told police he was The Joker, is a highly educated PhD neuroscience student. Raised in California by his parents Arlene and Robert, he moved from San Diego to Colorado after graduating from The University of California, Riverside in 2010 with a degree in neuroscience.


We always complain about our country; the system, the economics, the politics, the mindset of Malaysians and so on, I still feel it is a safe place to live in and raise our families. Don't you think so? As the saying goes, "HUJAN EMAS DI NEGERI ORANG, HUJAN BATU DI NEGERI SENDIRI....it is better to be in our own TANAH TUMPAHNYA DARAHKU!"

My condolences to the families of the deceased. And to the rest of us who are still alive, there's a lot to be learned from the tragedy.