All completely legal!

James Holmes – the accused movie theater shooter – provided one of the spookier court appearances we’ve seen. (AP Photo/file)

James Holmes, the accused movie theater shooter,
provided one of the spookier court appearances we’ve seen,
with orange hair and a bug-eyed stare.

To think he was legally armed, that he broke no firearm
law until the moment he entered that theater which, as it
turns out, prohibits weapons, has some people hoping this
will finally lead to tighter gun control. But it won’t.

Had he been an al Qaeda terrorist, yes! But since he
wasn’t, we’re just going to buy bigger guns than his.

Glenn Rotkovich runs the gun range where Holmes once
inquired about getting training, although he never
followed up, and he told us a good guy with the right gun
could have stopped the massacre despite the body armor.

“If you got hit with a reasonable sized caliber gun
with body armor on, it would very be similar to me taking
a baseball bat, swinging and catching you in the chest,”
says Rotkovich, who suggests the theater lift the
restrictions on carrying guns.

So that’s one approach, or maybe we’ll figure this guy
out because he didn’t kill himself and he was a student of
the mind. ABC aired a video of him addressing a seminar in
Computational Neurobiology at Miramar college, referring
to a mentor who shared his interest in the tricks the mind
can play on itself.

“He also studies subjective experience which is what
takes place inside the mind as opposed to the external
world. I’ve carried on his works,” Holmes said in the
video.

Maybe that’s the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for,
an accused murderer, who was actually studying how the
human mind creates his own world. And whose own mind is
now exhibit A.