Colorado

I'm kinda embarrassed at some of my thoughts in the wake of the tragic shooting in Colorado. The media is of course going nuts about it and there just isn't enough real information at this point to support all the coverage, so there's just mostly useless speculation. In some cases journalists have completely forgotten the ensure accuracy before you report step (again). Anyway, stupid thoughts follow:

Has George Will complained yet about reading the shooter his Miranda rights?

How long until this appears on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom?

How long until someone suggests that this is a plot by the Obama administration to repeal the second amendment?

Isn't the NRA line that such things would be prevented if everyone carried a concealed weapon? I guess no one was. Or maybe it doesn't work that way. Maybe armed victims don't manage to stop murders. Has that ever happened? UPDATE: Well there's this.

Maybe the fact that this kind of stuff keeps happening in the US and not in Europe suggests we should tighten our gun laws. Well it does happen in other countries too.

One of the news shows (I think on MSNBC) had a crawler showing tweets about the shooting. Most were by politicians but for some reason they thought we should all see this tweet by director @ThatKevinSmith, "My heart goes out to all the families of the victims in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting. Fucking horrific." Yes it included the full word "fucking". Is that a fleeting expletive? Will the FCC fine them? How did that get on the screen? I can't imagine they're showing a feed of all related tweets or of Kevin Smith tweets, someone must have picked that to show.