{"id":30954,"date":"2012-07-20T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30954"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:25:17","slug":"recapping-what-we-know-about-the-james-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30954","title":{"rendered":"Recapping what we know about James Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, we didn&#8217;t know much when we woke up this morning and  discovered that James Holmes had shot more than 60 people at a movie showing in Aurora, CO just after midnight. But that didn&#8217;t stop ABC from tying the shooter to the TeaParty. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/weaselzippers.us\/2012\/07\/20\/update-abc-news-retracts-claim-colorado-movie-shooter-was-linked-to-the-tea-party\/\">they had to retract that<\/a> claim because they found a guy whose name was the same as the shooters. A quick check of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitepages.com\/name\/James-Holmes\/Colorado\">White Pages<\/a> says they list 30 James Holmes in Colorado, so what are the odds? Apparently, they just &#8220;Googled&#8221; James Holmes+Tea Party to fit their perception.<\/p>\n<p>The Army, certain that the media would speculate whether Holmes was a veteran or not, scanned their databases and determined that he is not one of theirs, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/07\/aurora-shooting\/\">Spencer Ackermann<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army, concerned over speculation that the shooter might have been a veteran \u2014 and eager to stifle the meme of the psychotic veteran before it spread \u2014 felt compelled to email that a database check of the suspect resulted in \u201cno evidence suggest[ing] this individual served in the Army.\u201d Spokespeople for Buckley Air Force Base, near to Aurora, said servicemembers were among the wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the Left goes off and <a href=\"http:\/\/weaselzippers.us\/2012\/07\/20\/liberals-blaming-batman-movie-shooting-on-rush-limbaugh\/\">blames Rush Limbaugh<\/a> for the shooter, because ya know everyone who listens to his show is just one command away from shooting up a theater, anyway. Another blogger claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibillwarner.com\/2012\/07\/occupy-black-bloc-member-james-holmes.html\">Holmes is a member of the Black Bloc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>None of the speculation changes the fact that more than 60 people have been shot, some of them are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/07\/air-force-airmen-among-injured-shooting-colorado-072012\/\">members of the military<\/a>, and blaming any group or media source detracts from the fact that his guy is a nutjob, and he has no reasonable excuse for what he did and that he is solely  responsible for what he did. And anyone <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/wh-obama-believes-in-common-sense-gun-control\/article\/2502702\">taking advantage of this for their own personal or political gains<\/a> are despicable. <\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> As an afterthought I checked AKO to see if the Army had any James Holmes and there are 34, one in Colorado, so I guess we&#8217;re lucky that the media doesn&#8217;t have access to AKO or we&#8217;d be hearing about the shooter being a veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, we didn&#8217;t know much when we woke up this morning and discovered that James Holmes &hellip; <a title=\"Recapping what we know about James Holmes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30954\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recapping what we know about James Holmes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-guns","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}