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True Crime Documentary - The Batman Shootings · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: 315 and 314 for a shooting at Century Theater's.
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  Speaker 2: 14300 East Alameda Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying somebody's shooting in the auditorium.
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  Speaker 4: Just after midnight on July 20th, in a small town
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  Speaker 4: in Midwest America, a masked gunman enters a theater showing
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  Speaker 4: the premiere of the new Batman film.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all of our people are saying Theater 9, where
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  Speaker 5: Batman was playing.
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  Speaker 6: A local radio station is reporting that some people have
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  Speaker 6: been killed, but there has been no official confirmation.
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  Speaker 4: The details soon become clear and the reality is horrific.
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  Speaker 7: And here's what we know right now, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 7: the revised number, 12 dead, 50 injured.
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  Speaker 8: The youngest victim, just three months old. The suspect is
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  Speaker 8: in custody right now.
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  Speaker 9: We know he's a young man, 24 years old.
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  Speaker 8: Eyewitnesses describe him as armed for battle.
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  Speaker 10: Armed for battle.
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  Speaker 4: The accused an academically brilliant college dropout. James Holmes, aged 24,
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  Speaker 4: he dyed his hair orange and when arrested tells the
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  Speaker 4: police he is the Joker.
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  Speaker 11: We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their
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  Speaker 11: fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Amal Fashinou, and this is me two nights before
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  Speaker 4: the Aurora shootings at the London Leicester Square premiere of
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  Speaker 4: The Dark Knight Rises, where Batman Christian Bale and Catwoman
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  Speaker 4: Anne Hathaway are the stars of the red carpet. Now
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  Speaker 4: I've come 5,000 miles to Colorado to meet people who
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  Speaker 4: were inside Century 16 when the shooting started.
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  Speaker 1: God, it was like so much, bloody... It's not like
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  Speaker 1: what you see in Hollywood at all.
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  Speaker 4: I'll hear stories of incredible heroism.
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  Speaker 3: He completely protected me by telling me what I needed
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  Speaker 3: to do and pushing me under that seat further. He
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  Speaker 3: knew he was saving my life.
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  Speaker 4: I want to find out if young Americans think the
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  Speaker 4: time has come to tackle gun control. I think guns
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  Speaker 4: are great.
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  Speaker 12: I want a gun.
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonna go buy one right now, actually.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll tell the story of how the lives of
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  Speaker 4: James Holmes and one of his victims, Jessica Redfield, both 24,
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  Speaker 4: collided on a night that saw the deaths of 10
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  Speaker 4: Americans under the age of 30.
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  Speaker 9: They're saying there's hundreds of people just running around.
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  Speaker 13: Got a child victim I need to rescue at the
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  Speaker 13: back door of Theater 9 now.
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  Speaker 4: I've arrived in Colorado less than a week after the shootings.
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  Speaker 4: Right next to the state capital of Denver is the
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  Speaker 4: city of Aurora, population 325,000. Aurora's main feature is the
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  Speaker 4: Century 16 Theater, and it's here that the shootings happened.
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  Speaker 4: No one really expects to go to a cinema and
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  Speaker 4: end up being shot, or, you know, end up having
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  Speaker 4: a friend shot or a family member shot. Century 16
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  Speaker 4: is still cordoned off, so relatives and friends have created
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  Speaker 4: a makeshift memorial on a patch of land close by.
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  Speaker 4: It's bare, raw, and the tributes are heartbreaking. I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: this kind of reminds me of Princess Diana's memorial. I
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  Speaker 4: was really young when that happened, but this kind of
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  Speaker 4: brings back memories. It hits me just how young they
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  Speaker 4: all are. 27, 24, 23, 18, even six years old.
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  Speaker 4: How old are you personally, if you don't mind me asking?
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  Speaker 6: 28.
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  Speaker 14: 28, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because I'm 23 and I kind of just find this
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  Speaker 4: just amazing how everyone was so young as well.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, and that's what breaks your heart.
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  Speaker 8: You've got to keep looking at it.
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  Speaker 11: Haven't even lived half their life.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, and it could have been anyone.
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  Speaker 4: It could have been you, yeah, like any of me.
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  Speaker 4: I think people are very open here and I don't
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  Speaker 4: have anything to do with this and, you know, they
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  Speaker 4: welcome me and I've been here and I kind of
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  Speaker 4: feel like one of them. And I think that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people knew each other, which is unfortunate as
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  Speaker 4: well because I guess they knew a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: people who have passed away. Did you know anyone here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I knew AJ.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, a lot of people seem to know AJ. What
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  Speaker 4: was he like as a person?
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  Speaker 2: He was always happy and smiling, and if he was sad,
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  Speaker 2: he'd always be the one.
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  Speaker 13: To make your day.
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  Speaker 4: Was he very popular? How do you feel about this?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've known him since I was six years old, so.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really sorry.
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  Speaker 14: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of these people have lost a lot of
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  Speaker 4: loved ones. I've lost people that I loved before, so
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  Speaker 4: I can understand what they're going through. And to be
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  Speaker 4: honest with you, This is just, it's so much more
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  Speaker 4: than a tragedy that I can't even describe what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's something just totally incoherent. And this is just awful. First,
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  Speaker 4: let's spin back to 1987. James Holmes is born here
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  Speaker 4: in San Diego, Southern California. An exceptionally bright student, he
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  Speaker 4: leaves school with top grades.
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  Speaker 13: All right, our next speaker is James Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Aged 18. He's introduced to students at a summer camp.
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  Speaker 11: In personal life, he enjoys playing soccer and strategy games,
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  Speaker 11: and his dream is to own a Slurpee machine.
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  Speaker 4: These kids have been fun to work with this summer.
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  Speaker 4: But he's a serious student. His expertise is neuroscience.
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  Speaker 16: My mentor, John Jacobson, who works in CNO, is a
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  Speaker 16: philosophical type of guy. He's interested in how we perceive reality.
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  Speaker 4: Describers academically at the top of the top. James Holmes
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  Speaker 4: studies neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside. James Holmes
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have known Jessica Redfield, who was taking the first
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  Speaker 4: tentative steps on her chosen career. She too was attending
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  Speaker 4: a university while at the same time trying to break
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  Speaker 4: into her dream career of sports journalism. She'd landed an
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  Speaker 4: internship at a cable TV station and was sent out
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  Speaker 4: to interview an ice hockey star.
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  Speaker 17: And what about players coming in and out throughout the
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  Speaker 17: entire season? You get guys that come down from the NHL.
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  Speaker 17: You can have guys that are coming in from the Coyotes.
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  Speaker 17: How does that change the dynamic of the team?
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  Speaker 4: The interns' outtakes were posted on YouTube.
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  Speaker 11: There we go.
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  Speaker 15: Can we please stick?
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  Speaker 6: Here at 760 WKR.
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  Speaker 4: Jessica was determined that one day she would make it
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  Speaker 4: to the top, and clearly, She was an instant hit
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  Speaker 4: with the hockey team.
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  Speaker 16: After we modify their perception of time, we completely remove
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  Speaker 16: the delay, and this causes the time illusion.
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  Speaker 4: James Holmes graduates with a bachelor's degree, but finding work
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  Speaker 4: is difficult. He gets a part-time job at McDonald's. then
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  Speaker 4: moves 1,000 miles east to Denver, Colorado to start a
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  Speaker 4: PhD in neuroscience. But he struggles and quits in early June.
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  Speaker 4: Out of college, out of a job, and getting deep
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  Speaker 4: into prescription drugs, Holmes starts searching the internet for explosives
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  Speaker 4: and ammunition. On June 25th, he fills out an application
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  Speaker 4: form to join a gun club. I've tracked down the
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  Speaker 4: club 30 miles east of town. The owner has agreed
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  Speaker 4: to meet me, and for the first time publicly, show
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  Speaker 4: me the application form that James Holmes submitted. My name's Amal.
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  Speaker 12: Amal?
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  Speaker 11: Glad to meet you, Amal.
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  Speaker 5: This is the actual application that we received from him,
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  Speaker 5: with his name, address, all the general information on it,
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  Speaker 5: and his parents' address in San Diego. When I called
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  Speaker 5: James Holmes, the problem was is that when I called him,
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  Speaker 5: he had this rather guttural, bizarre message on his answering
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  Speaker 5: machine that was indistinguishable rambling very weird at best bizarre
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  Speaker 5: and so I left the message for him anyway figuring
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  Speaker 5: who knows maybe somebody did it and he doesn't know
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  Speaker 5: it's there and he didn't call back so I ended
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  Speaker 5: up calling the next day and the next day so
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  Speaker 5: by the third day my attitude was kind of like
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  Speaker 5: you know this is strange and bizarre you're not calling
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  Speaker 5: me back you should be you sent me an application
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  Speaker 5: you know this isn't right so I just simply told
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  Speaker 5: the staff look This guy's not scheduled, he's not supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be here. If he shows, then please set him aside,
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  Speaker 5: put him there, don't process him until I get a
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  Speaker 5: chance to talk to him to find out who and
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  Speaker 5: what he is.
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  Speaker 4: Around the same time, just six weeks before the Batman shootings,
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  Speaker 4: Jessica Redfield is in Toronto visiting a shopping mall when
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  Speaker 4: panic breaks out. One person was killed and seven others
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  Speaker 4: injured in a shooting in one of Canada's busiest shopping centers.
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  Speaker 4: Ever the journalist, Jessica goes online to tell the world
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  Speaker 4: what's happened.
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  Speaker 18: I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I
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  Speaker 18: saw terror on the bystanders' faces. I saw the victims
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  Speaker 18: of a senseless crime. I saw lives change.
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  Speaker 1: She said it was definitely a horrific experience. and scary.
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  Speaker 4: In Aurora, I meet Harmony Johnson, who went to hockey
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  Speaker 4: matches with Jessica. She believes that Jessica's escape from the
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  Speaker 4: Toronto shooting had given her a fresh perspective.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't let it affect her. She didn't let, like,
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  Speaker 1: her experience... keep her a victim or make her afraid
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  Speaker 1: of living life at all.
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  Speaker 4: A hundred miles east of Denver, high in the Rocky Mountains,
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  Speaker 4: I've come to the old mining town of Leadville to
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  Speaker 4: check out their annual Boom Day parade. It's a chance
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  Speaker 4: to find out if Aurora has changed young Americans' views
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  Speaker 4: on guns. The right to bear arms is a key
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  Speaker 4: part of the US Constitution. And in Leadville, that's something
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  Speaker 4: they take very seriously. But I'm still surprised to find
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  Speaker 4: that a street gun display is part of the family entertainment.
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  Speaker 8: I'm so scared.
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  Speaker 4: If I was a kid, I would be petrified. They
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  Speaker 4: seem pretty relaxed compared to me. In this part of
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  Speaker 4: the country, owning and using guns is an important tradition.
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  Speaker 4: But do young Americans here feel the same?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I personally own three guns, and I think it's
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  Speaker 9: important to me to have a gun in my house
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  Speaker 9: because I'm a single person. I live in Boulder, which
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  Speaker 9: is a secure town, but my house has been broken
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  Speaker 9: into before.
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  Speaker 10: I come from a very rural community out in the woods,
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  Speaker 10: so I was grown up with guns being a tool
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  Speaker 10: for hunting animals and providing food for families. They're part
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  Speaker 10: of American culture and have been and continue and will be.
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  Speaker 19: I want a gun.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to go buy one right now, actually.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I already own an AR-15.
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  Speaker 13: But I'm going to go buy another pistol.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to go buy a pistol today.
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  Speaker 4: I think guns are great.
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  Speaker 20: Everybody has their right to own weapons.
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  Speaker 19: If they want to have guns, by all means, own them.
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  Speaker 2: If we're Americans, we should be able to bear arms,
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  Speaker 2: or why are you Americans?
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  Speaker 4: I found just one person here who has reservations about
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  Speaker 4: gun ownerships.
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  Speaker 20: I do think guns are important, but I kind of
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  Speaker 20: think that I would be contradictory to most people that
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  Speaker 20: you would ask here. I think that they shouldn't be
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  Speaker 20: in the home. I think that owning them and allowing
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  Speaker 20: them to be everywhere just perpetuates more violence, and I'm
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  Speaker 20: not a huge supporter of it.
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  Speaker 13: Get out of our way!
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  Speaker 5: We got a delivery to make to the bank, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to put up with no shenanigans.
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  Speaker 11: Back off!
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  Speaker 4: The Leadville Old West Reenactment Society stages a mock shootout
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  Speaker 4: as part of the parade. And people here love it.
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  Speaker 13: I'll take this from you, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Well, at the end of the old crown.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: It's all good, clean fun, to the point that guns
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  Speaker 5: don't kill people.
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  Speaker 14: It's the people behind the guns that cause the damage.
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  Speaker 20: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: So had the shooting in Aurora only two weeks before
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  Speaker 4: changed the views of these young people?
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  Speaker 9: No, it hasn't. I think that, like I said, with
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  Speaker 9: gun safety, it's a big deal. If you own a gun,
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  Speaker 9: you should be responsible. There's no way that they can
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  Speaker 9: regulate someone who has a problem.
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  Speaker 10: There are a lot of crazy people in the world
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  Speaker 10: doing a lot of crazy things, and so it's hard
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  Speaker 10: to single out and say, this is the reason that
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  Speaker 10: guns should be banned or outlawed or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Some think the real lesson of Aurora is that people
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  Speaker 4: need more guns.
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  Speaker 12: We should have them for our protection.
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  Speaker 1: If everybody in the theater had a gun on their person.
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  Speaker 12: It would have never happened.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: On July 5th, Jessica Redfield tweets that she is celebrating
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  Speaker 4: her first year in Denver.
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  Speaker 18: Can't believe I moved to Colorado a year ago today.
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  Speaker 18: Thanks to everyone who stuck with me along the way.
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  Speaker 18: It's been a fun journey so far.
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  Speaker 4: And on July 16th, she has some personal good news
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  Speaker 4: to share.
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  Speaker 8: It's official.
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  Speaker 18: I'm going to be a godmother on August 6th at
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  Speaker 18: 2 p.m. Poor kid doesn't know what he's in for.
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  Speaker 4: James Holmes isn't on Twitter or Facebook. Having dropped out
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  Speaker 4: of his PhD course, he's looking for sex and speaking
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  Speaker 4: to strangers on Adult Friend Finder. It seems he had
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  Speaker 4: become obsessed with the Batman films. He dyes his hair
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  Speaker 4: orange and appears to be modeling himself on one of
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  Speaker 4: the series' key characters, the crazed gunman, the Joker.
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  Speaker 16: Come on!
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  Speaker 4: Throughout this summer, James Holmes manages to buy 6,000 rounds
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  Speaker 4: of ammunition online. And with no criminal record and a
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  Speaker 4: current Colorado driving license, he is able to buy four
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  Speaker 4: guns at specialist stores in Aurora, including this one.
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  Speaker 6: An official Batman hat!
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  Speaker 4: Around the world, for many young people, premieres of The
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  Speaker 4: Dark Knight Rises means Batman fever, costumes, souvenirs, and Batmobiles.
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  Speaker 4: In Aurora, I find four people who'd bought tickets for
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  Speaker 4: the premiere, a night filled with excitement and anticipation. Kevin Lam,
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  Speaker 4: age 18, a computer software design student, goes to the
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  Speaker 4: movie with his girlfriend Ariane.
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  Speaker 8: I'd never been to a movie premiere before, so this
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  Speaker 8: was already an amazing thing, going with my girlfriend.
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  Speaker 4: Jansen Young, age 21, heads to the cinema with her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 4: John Blanc, after thinking about staying in for the night.
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  Speaker 3: That night, he was really tired, and we had almost
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  Speaker 3: discussed not going, but then we were like, no, we
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  Speaker 3: already got the tickets, let's go. And so we were tired,
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  Speaker 3: but we were still excited to see the movie because
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  Speaker 3: we'd been excited for it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: For a while. Tony Hwang. Age 18, a college student.
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  Speaker 4: With a group of friends, he arrives early to be
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  Speaker 4: sure of a seat.
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  Speaker 14: It was the Batman premiere and it was just so
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  Speaker 14: exciting that night and I really wanted to see it.
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  Speaker 4: Harmony Johnson, 23, a single mom being treated for cancer.
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  Speaker 4: With two friends, she joins a crowd of 200 people.
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  Speaker 1: We were excited, we were pumped up, everybody was rooting.
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  Speaker 1: People had their face painted, people had their hair colored,
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  Speaker 1: people were wearing Batman shirts and costumes and just having
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  Speaker 1: a great time. I don't know, it was like going
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  Speaker 1: to a party.
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  Speaker 4: Jessica Redfield has her ticket but tweets that she's had
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  Speaker 4: a hard time finding someone to go with.
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  Speaker 18: Never thought I'd have to coerce a guy into seeing
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  Speaker 18: the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises with me.
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  Speaker 4: Her excitement is clear as the pre-film trailers start.
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  Speaker 18: Movie doesn't start for 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I remember my friends telling me that this was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the best night ever.
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  Speaker 4: James Holmes leaves his flat for the movie, but keeps
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  Speaker 4: music blaring so loudly it disturbs the neighbors. He drives
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  Speaker 4: to Century 16 with a car full of guns and ammunition.
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  Speaker 4: The midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises is being
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  Speaker 4: shown on Screen 9. But so many people have turned up,
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  Speaker 4: they decide to show it on screen eight as well. Unusually,
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  Speaker 4: James Holmes parks at the back of the multiplex. Inside,
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  Speaker 4: he manages to get a front row seat in screen nine.
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  Speaker 4: Once the film begins, Holmes quietly gets up and heads
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  Speaker 4: for the rear emergency exit door. He goes to his car,
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  Speaker 4: where he puts on a helmet, gas mask, bulletproof vest
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  Speaker 4: and leggings, and then picks up gas canisters, his shotgun, handgun,
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  Speaker 4: and a semi-automatic rifle. He returns via the emergency exit door,
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  Speaker 4: which he left propped open and heads back to Theater 9.
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  Speaker 3: Someone walked in the right-hand corner by the screen that
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  Speaker 3: threw something up behind us. It landed in, like, the
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  Speaker 3: left-back corner, and it smoked the.
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  Speaker 4: Entire way up there.
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  Speaker 18: And, like, I watched it, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then when it went boom, immediately it was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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  Speaker 3: that's not part of this.
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  Speaker 14: At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
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  Speaker 14: And then, like, the smoke canister exploded and smoke was
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  Speaker 14: coming out.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Theater 8 when everything was going on
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  Speaker 1: in Theater 9. They were screaming from the right that
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  Speaker 1: there was smoke coming over. and I looked over and
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  Speaker 1: I thought they don't they don't play dry they don't
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  Speaker 1: put dry ice at a movie theater but is it
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  Speaker 1: part of the movie?
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  Speaker 8: And then next I see flashes and I looked into
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  Speaker 8: the flashes four shots in I stared in the muzzle,
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  Speaker 8: just seeing the flash. I stared at it.
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  Speaker 14: My friend pushed me down and told me to duck.
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  Speaker 11: And I did.
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  Speaker 14: And that's when I realized it wasn't fireworks or anything.
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  Speaker 14: It was gunshots.
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  Speaker 4: And the bullets were actually going through the walls?
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  Speaker 1: Were actually going through the walls.
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  Speaker 4: Jansen Young's boyfriend, John Blanc, immediately understands what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: He pushed me down and said, Jansen, get down and
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  Speaker 3: stay down, and pushed me down behind the seats. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I was like, why? And he pushed me down further
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: onto my stomach and pushed me under the seats and said,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: because there's a man in the movie theater shooting people.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: And by that point, I could hear multiple gunshots that
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: had gone off.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: Bang, bang, bang.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And the screams were unreal.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: The person above me was screaming, I've been shot, I've
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: been shot.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: And even still I was thinking, this has got to
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: be a joke.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Everybody's acting, everybody's in on this and they're getting shot
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: with something they don't think is actually bullets. This has
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: got to be a joke.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: It was a constant, just non-stop firing.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: But then the firing does stop. The gunman's semi-automatic jams.
• 21:24
  Speaker 14: And then all of a sudden it was quiet. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: we just knew that we had to run during that
• 21:31
  Speaker 14: time because... It seemed like he was reloading.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: I jumped over with a friend. I told him, guys,
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: we got to go.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Run, run.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: The gunman, it turns out, is no professional. His confusion
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: and delay over changing weapons means many people escaped. but
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: they have witnessed unimaginable horror.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And I could just feel blood running down from the
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: seat above me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 16: My friend.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: Last thing I heard her say, I got shot. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: I remember rolling down around on her blood.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: There was a man running like over the seat ceiling.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Jesse's been shot. Jesse's been shot. And he stepped on
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: my head on the way out and like pushed my
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: face more into this blood that kept running down. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it was running all over my back.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I could hear someone breathing.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: On my left side, like labored breaths. And that's when
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I think I knew that John had been shot.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: People were just dragging and crawling and running and screaming.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It was the most horrific thing I'd ever seen.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: There was like so much blood.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: It's not like what you see in Hollywood at all.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I kind of slid out from under the seats and
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: John was unresponsive. I was like shaking him and saying, John,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: come on, we got to go.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: But where is the gunman? Afraid he's still at large,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Johnson Young hides behind a rubbish bin.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I heard the police scream freeze to someone. And even then,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't feel safe.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I heard people screaming in the back that they got
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: him back there.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, we've got rifles, gas masks.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: He's detained right now.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I've got an open.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Door going into the theater.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: It was unreal.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: The people that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Young people my age. There was kids there my son's age.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: teenagers and they were shot and they were covered in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: blood and you don't you don't see that in the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: movies and we were in the movies i.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Need a march core behind the theater.
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: Table side the suspect in a gas mask okay hold
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: that position hold.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Your suspect Surrendering without a fight, police discover a young
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: man with dyed orange hair staring blankly, declaring, I am
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: the Joker. Across town, the University of Colorado Hospital goes
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: into its disaster plan. Physician Dr. Camilla Sasson is on
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: duty and tells me how the hospital dealt with the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: incoming casualties.
• 24:39
  Speaker 19: So we saw 23 patients total, and they came in
• 24:43
  Speaker 19: mostly through police cars. And I would say our first 9,
• 24:45
  Speaker 19: 10 patients that we saw were very critically injured. So
• 24:48
  Speaker 19: we had gunshot.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Wounds to the head, to the chest, to the belly.
• 24:53
  Speaker 19: I've been doing this for about 10 years, and there
• 24:55
  Speaker 19: were some of the most horrific wounds I've ever seen.
• 24:56
  Speaker 19: And it takes a lot to do that to an
• 24:59
  Speaker 19: emergency room doctor. So as you can see right here,
• 25:01
  Speaker 19: this is actually the ambulance bay where all of our
• 25:03
  Speaker 19: patients were coming in. So it was just police car
• 25:06
  Speaker 19: after police car that was coming in that night. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 19: we would literally take, bring a stretcher out right up
• 25:12
  Speaker 19: to here, move it out to the little ambulance bay
• 25:15
  Speaker 19: right here, and then take the body out of the
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: back of the police officer's car, put it on the stretcher.
• 25:20
  Speaker 19: Myself and Dr. Block would assess the patients right here.
• 25:23
  Speaker 19: Just two of you? Just two of us would actually
• 25:25
  Speaker 19: assess them coming in. We'd look at, see how critically
• 25:28
  Speaker 19: injured they were. And then they would literally go to
• 25:30
  Speaker 19: the left here, which is our resuscitation bay, or to
• 25:32
  Speaker 19: this little sort of mash unit that we had created
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: where all of our very critically ill, but maybe didn't
• 25:37
  Speaker 19: need to be put on a ventilator, patients would stay.
• 25:39
  Speaker 19: As an ER doc, I think I'm just sick and
• 25:41
  Speaker 19: tired of taking care of gunshot wound victims. It's just
• 25:43
  Speaker 19: really hard to have to take care of patients time
• 25:45
  Speaker 19: and time again when we know that they weren't doing
• 25:48
  Speaker 19: anything wrong. The fact that we're able to keep 22
• 25:50
  Speaker 19: of these victims alive, to me, is really a miracle.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Back in the cinema, it's selfless heroism that saves lives.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Four men die because they put their bodies between the
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: gunmen and their girlfriends. One of them is Jonathan Blunk,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: He completely.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Protected me by telling me what I needed to do
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: and pushing me under that seat further.
• 26:12
  Speaker 18: He knew he was saving my life.
• 26:14
  Speaker 14: AJ loved to make people smile. No matter what mood
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: they were in, he would always find a way to
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: do it. He was a really amazing guy.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Jessica Redfield, age 24, the intern who dreamed of being
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: a national sports broadcaster, dies instantly from gunshot wounds.
• 26:33
  Speaker 17: And what about players coming in and out throughout the
• 26:35
  Speaker 17: entire season? You get guys that come down from the NHL.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: You can have guys that are coming in from the Coyotes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: How does that change the dynamic.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Of the team?
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: At the University of Denver, there's a memorial to one
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of their students, Alex Tevez, another of Holmes' victims. I'm
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: here to meet one of Alex's former tutors, Max Wachtel.
• 27:11
  Speaker 21: So it's the Neo personality inventory.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: He's a leading forensic psychologist who assesses mental health in
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: cases of serious crime.
• 27:20
  Speaker 14: Nice to meet you.
• 27:22
  Speaker 15: Hi, nice to meet you too.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I want to find out what turns a bright college
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: boy like Holmes into a mass murderer.
• 27:29
  Speaker 21: A lot of times they tend to have some sort
• 27:32
  Speaker 21: of an undiagnosed mental illness. Usually it is something like
• 27:37
  Speaker 21: depression or bipolar disorder. It doesn't tend to be a
• 27:42
  Speaker 21: psychotic disorder like schizophrenia.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: And why is it that they're often young men?
• 27:48
  Speaker 21: I think as a society in the U.S., males are
• 27:52
  Speaker 21: trained to be unemotional and to deal with any sort
• 27:57
  Speaker 21: of problems on their own without talking about it. That
• 28:01
  Speaker 21: ends up a lot of times leading to anger, frustration, rage,
• 28:08
  Speaker 21: thoughts of vengeance.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: And is there anything different or special in James Holmes'
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: profile that would make him likely to be a killer
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: one day?
• 28:17
  Speaker 21: You know, honestly, no. Everything that we know about him
• 28:19
  Speaker 21: so far is that he was kind of a normal kid,
• 28:21
  Speaker 21: maybe a little bit quirky. I think he was smart.
• 28:24
  Speaker 21: He may have had a little bit of trouble relating
• 28:25
  Speaker 21: to other people because of that. But nothing out of
• 28:30
  Speaker 21: the ordinary. It seems like the kind of picture you
• 28:38
  Speaker 21: would see taken from a webcam.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Max also gives me his take on the few pictures
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: we have of James Holmes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 21: In retrospect, you see the cocky expression, the red hair.
• 28:49
  Speaker 21: It seems like a fairly normal kind of picture, though,
• 28:51
  Speaker 21: that you would see on Facebook or Twitter, I think.
• 28:55
  Speaker 21: This picture, he's got that raised eyebrow. He's got the
• 28:58
  Speaker 21: smirk on his face and that very intense stare. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 21: have to wonder what's going through his mind there. This
• 29:05
  Speaker 21: was a picture from an adult website he had joined
• 29:08
  Speaker 21: that he photoshopped this woman licking him. And it's certainly
• 29:13
  Speaker 21: a fairly disturbing image. He's got that intense look on
• 29:17
  Speaker 21: his face again. In court, the crazy hair, the jail scrubs.
• 29:24
  Speaker 21: just kind of blankly staring. His demeanor in court would
• 29:28
  Speaker 21: be referred to as having flat affect or flat emotion,
• 29:32
  Speaker 21: meaning just nothing there.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: Emotionless.
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: Emotionless.
• 29:35
  Speaker 21: You do see this presentation in some people who have
• 29:39
  Speaker 21: mental illness. I think a lot of people are concerned
• 29:42
  Speaker 21: that he's faking this, and that's certainly possible.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: In custody, Holmes apparently confesses to a scheme that bears
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: the hallmarks of his comic villain hero, the Joker. He's
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: booby-trapped his apartment with 10 gallons of petrol and 30 grenades,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Police also find a Batman mask. It's much easier to
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: buy guns in the US than it is back home.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: But I want to find out just how easy. Jake
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Myers runs Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo, not a place
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: used by Holmes.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Hi, how's it going?
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Good, thank you.
• 30:34
  Speaker 15: Nice to meet you. My name's Amal.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: I'm Jake.
• 30:36
  Speaker 12: How's it going?
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: If Barack Obama is looking for votes, he won't find
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: them here.
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: This one here holds 15 rounds of ammunition. A lot
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: of people like this for carry and conceal purposes because
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: it's really lightweight. It's made of basically plastic.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Aurora has had an effect here, but not quite what
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: I was expecting. Jake told me that in the days
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: after the shooting, sales had tripled.
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: The first couple days, I did see a real big
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: influx in gun sales, but what I mostly saw was
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: people wanting to take classes and learn how to use
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: a firearm or protect themselves. The day after the shooting, actually,
• 31:09
  Speaker 12: we had about 20 people lined up outside waiting to
• 31:12
  Speaker 12: take classes.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So if I wanted to buy a gun, how easy
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: would it be? Jake, today I've brought my passport, and
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I kind of wanted to know if I could just
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: come here and buy a gun.
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: You wouldn't be able to use just your passport. You'd
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: have to have some sort of state identification card, either
• 31:27
  Speaker 12: ID or driver's license.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: So if I was American and I had a driver's license,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I could just come into the store?
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you'd have to have a driver's license or identification
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: card from this state.
• 31:37
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: And it's basically, in this state, we do what's called
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: an insta-check.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 31:43
  Speaker 12: It takes anywhere between about five minutes to an hour
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: to do a background check.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Okay, okay.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: They do a federal background check on you to make
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: sure you have no felonies, you're not running from the
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: military or something like that. And then they send me
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: back either an approval or a denial. And if you
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: get approved, you walk out of the store that day
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: with a firearm.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: But I find that not everyone in this state loves guns.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: In April 1999, a school just 20 miles from Aurora
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: would become forever linked with gun crime. Its name? Columbine.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Twelve students and one teacher were killed when two high
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: school seniors carried out a carefully planned attack. It was
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: captured on the school's CCTV.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Jefferson County 9-1-1.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am a teacher at Columbine High School.
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: There is a student here with a gun.
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: The school is in a panic, and I.
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: Am in the library.
• 32:48
  Speaker 15: The student's down under the table, kid!
• 32:51
  Speaker 18: Kid's under the table!
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Who is the.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Student, ma'am?
• 32:56
  Speaker 12: I do not know who the student is.
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: I saw a student outside.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: I was in a hurry.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I was in a hurry.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: I want to hear from young people who had picked
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: up their lives after such a terrible experience.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: Hi, Lindsay.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: Hi, Mom.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Nice to meet you.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Lindsay Benj survived the Columbine massacre, but two of her
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: close friends, Daniel Mouser and Rachel Scott, weren't so lucky.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: The worst was finding out, you know, that you had
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: the friends who passed away, for me personally, Dan and Rachel, specifically.
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: And then.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: kind of going through that, you know, there's that whole
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: denial phase where it just doesn't make sense and you
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: can't wrap your mind around it and then you're just
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: angry and frustrated and you're going through all the stages
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: of grief but you don't know how to handle it
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: and I think at that age you shouldn't know how
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: to handle it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: What do you think about what's just happened a week
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: ago in Aurora? I mean, it seems to me pretty similar.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's... surreal. It's almost unfathomable that it
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: keeps happening. It's like somebody keeps hitting the rewind button
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you're seeing shots of memorials
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: and shots of family members trying to find, you know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: their loved ones and it's just, it's absolutely devastating.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Why do you think it is?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Why here?
• 34:29
  Speaker 20: Why again?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I think because it can. Everybody wants to pinpoint one
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: specific reason why. And there's never just one single reason.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: You know, guns are far too accessible in the States.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, it's become such a polarizing subject that anytime
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: somebody wants to have a reasonable, rational conversation about gun control...
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: It's like people stick their fingers in their ears and
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: they don't want to hear it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I've come to see the memorial near the school. It's
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: now a tragic symbol of how little America has moved
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: on the guns issue in the last decade. I don't
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: really know if America's learning a lesson or not in
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: regards to guns. If you see this and then you
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: see Aurora and you see all the suffering and how
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: everyone is distraught, it's just not right. It's just not fair.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: And I don't really know to what extent America will
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: ever change or is going to change. I really don't know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Daniel Mouser's father, Tom, has spent the last decade campaigning
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: for tighter gun laws in memory of his son. He's
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: been shocked by the level of opposition and abuse he's faced.
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: I ask people to think how they would feel if
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: it happened to their child. You have to imagine that. Otherwise,
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: you won't really see what the impact of guns is.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: In terms of being part of our culture, I think
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: there is a sense of, you know, that sense of
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: having a right to bear arms. But it can't be
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: an absolute right. There have to be restrictions. We have
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: to keep guns away from people who shouldn't have guns.
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: We shouldn't be giving this kind of firepower to people
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: who are mentally disturbed.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: How difficult has it been to campaign?
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: It is very difficult. We're fighting a lobby, the gun lobby,
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: that is so powerful. It's one of the top two lobbies,
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: strongest lobbies, in Washington, D.C.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: What kind of responses have you had from the more
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: extreme gun campaigners?
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: It's been difficult at times. You find yourself in America
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: when you are a gun control advocate, you find out quickly,
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: especially a very public one like me, that you'll face
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: some pretty strong and nasty opposition. I've had people write
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: to me and say, you're campaigning against guns on the
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: grave and the corpse of your son. That's the kind
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: of thing they say. I mean, it's despicable stuff, but
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: you know, I can't let that get to me. I
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: can't let them intimidate me. I have to keep doing
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: what I'm doing.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: I find it confusing that despite so many gun deaths
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: in America, More than 31,000 in 2009 alone, guns seem
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: more popular than ever. So I've come back to Lead
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Valley Gun Club, the place James Holmes tried to join,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: to speak to the owner, a man who trains people
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: how to fire guns properly.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: This is just a representation of some of the firearms
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: that are available in the United States.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: This is the closest I've ever been to guns and firearms,
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: but there's more to come. Glenn believes the only way
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: I can really start to understand guns is to fire one. A.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: 22 Western style of the original Western revolvers, but this
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: is a. 22, one of the firearms you will be firing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: This is a. 38 caliber revolver, which is a double-action revolver,
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: which is mainly the firearm that was used by most
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: police officers and people in law enforcement all the way
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: up until probably the mid to late 80s.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: So if you just put that in and then fired,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: it would literally.
• 38:37
  Speaker 16: If it.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Had ammo in it, yes, you'd put it in and
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: be able to pull the trigger. Mm-hmm. Any firearm, no
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: matter how small it is, has the capability. And then
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: the last one here, this is a 9mm pistol that's available.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: This is the other firearm you'll be firing today that's
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: made by Smith & Wesson. There's basically three safety rules
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: that you follow at all times. The first one is
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: always keep a gun pointed in a safe direction.
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: You never.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Never allow the muzzle to point to anything that you
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: do not want destroyed. Number two rule is always keep
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: the finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: And then always keep the gun unloaded until ready for
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: use is the third main safety rule.
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: Well, I think I'm ready.
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 11: It'll be a lot of fun.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: You'll find out after you fire it. It's a lot
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: of fun.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: This club is for responsible gun owners and used by
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: many young, experienced shooters.
• 39:30
  Speaker 22: Usually we go up to the mountains where there's a
• 39:32
  Speaker 22: national forest where you're able to shoot as long as
• 39:35
  Speaker 22: you're away from the road with a proper backstop behind you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 22: It's just a pure competition sport for me. It's just
• 39:42
  Speaker 22: like with any other sport, basketball, football, it's just something
• 39:44
  Speaker 22: you want to get good at. So this gun right
• 39:47
  Speaker 22: here is mine. This is a Sig Sawyer 516. It's
• 39:50
  Speaker 22: a AR-15, which is the civilian version of the M16.
• 39:54
  Speaker 22: Since this is my rifle, I know it very well.
• 39:57
  Speaker 22: In light of those tragedies, I mean, I have many
• 39:59
  Speaker 22: friends my age, so the younger generation, as far as
• 40:02
  Speaker 22: how they feel about it, they definitely want to protect
• 40:04
  Speaker 22: themselves more. So if they're in that situation late at
• 40:07
  Speaker 22: night at a movie theater or something like that happens,
• 40:10
  Speaker 22: where usually their defense is off, they'd like to be
• 40:12
  Speaker 22: able to protect themselves. And a lot of people my
• 40:15
  Speaker 22: age have gone to get... concealed carry permits so they
• 40:19
  Speaker 22: can carry handguns or become more familiar with weapons so
• 40:22
  Speaker 22: they just feel confident with them.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: Go ahead, just stay up on top. Go ahead.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Confidence is one thing I don't feel as I prepare
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: to fire a gun for the first time. But I
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: am confident I am in safe hands.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: We're going to start with the 22. Full arm length out.
• 40:42
  Speaker 11: Push it all the way out.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: See your sights now? Align that sight.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: So it's on the thing.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Now cock your hand.
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: Use this thumb.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Cock that hammer. Keep your finger back. Add pressure to
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: the trigger and it'll go off. Don't squeeze it. Just
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: start adding pressure. Let the gun surprise you. Steady, even pressure.
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 41:04
  Speaker 13: All right. Okay.
• 41:08
  Speaker 14: It's so heavy.
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: I like shaking.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: Steady.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 41:15
  Speaker 11: Range is hot.
• 41:17
  Speaker 22: The Second Amendment in the Constitution is for a civilian's
• 41:21
  Speaker 22: right to spare arms. And as far as that, we've
• 41:25
  Speaker 22: had guns since our nation's birth, since the American Revolution.
• 41:29
  Speaker 22: We're trained in them since then. So civilians definitely, as
• 41:34
  Speaker 22: part of the Constitution, have a right to do that.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Next for me, the more powerful 9mm Smith & Wesson semi-automatic.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Now you're going to have a long, hard squeeze on
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: this one the first time around.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Do I press hard?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Well, just start pressing. You'll feel it. Just keep adding pressure.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: It'll start to pull the trigger in a minute. Don't
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: rush it.
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: Just keep pulling.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: You almost had it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 12: Oh, my God.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: It's a hard pull on this one the first time around.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: Pull real hard.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 42:05
  Speaker 16: Whoa.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: Now, figure out the trigger guard.
• 42:08
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Whoa.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:12
  Speaker 14: Whoa.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: That's it. That's better, you hit a bullseye on that one.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: No, that's where it's supposed to go.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: That's better.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I guess it gives me a sense of power because
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I know what it can do. It's a different experience,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: may I say.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: See where the holes are?
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: All of them in the center.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: See the difference in size. These are the ones I fired.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: That's the 9mm you shot.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Tiny.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: There's the. 22 and quite a bit of difference in
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: size between the two of them.
• 42:52
  Speaker 20: I can fit my pinky finger in there.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: People have talked about tightening gun laws. What's your view
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: on this?
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: My view on that is pretty simple. We had a
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: shooting here a while back, and the kids that did
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: it broke 22 gun laws in order to be able
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: to get the firearms to do it. So 23 is
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: going to stop them?
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: I think this has changed my view slightly, although I
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: still firmly believe that there should be more gun laws
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: enforced to prevent things like Columbine and like what's happened
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: in Aurora. But I do understand where they're coming from,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: that this is part of their culture. Guns are part
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: of American society. And I think that a lot of
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Americans feel safer having a gun, being able to protect themselves.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: It's not the gun laws or the guns that caused
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: the problem to begin with. It's the nut behind it
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: that uses it. Police can't be every place. They never are.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: They were at that theater prior to the shooting and
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: left because there was no problems.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Two days after the shootings, President Obama visits the hospital
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: where some of the victims are being treated. He's photographed
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: with eyewitness Stephanie Davis. She's saved the life of her friend,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Ali Young, who'd been hit in the neck by Holmes.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: With the presidential elections only a few months away, I
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: wonder how big a role the gun debate is playing
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: on the campaign trail.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Answer?
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Next to none. I've been having a look at several
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: newspapers and I've looked online as well. All the politicians
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: seem to have other things to speak about. We have
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Mitt Romney speaking about Israel. There's a lot about Obama
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: here trying to intensify a campaign, heading into the final stretch.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: None of them really mention gun control or guns, which
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: I find really surprising, especially at this time and after
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: what's just happened in Aurora. But I still think politicians
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: should be talking about guns.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: The emergency services called after a gunman started shooting at
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: the congregation.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: A week into my trip, there's news of another massacre.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Over 700 miles away in Milwaukee, once again, I am
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: forced to question my views. I've just been watching BBC
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: World News where seven people have been killed in Wisconsin
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: in a Sikh temple. I've been here for seven days
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: now in Aurora, and this is the second massacre killing
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: that's been going on. Clearly there must be something wrong
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: in the U.S. in regards to gun control. And I'm
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: pretty surprised that no one's really speaking about it. So
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: why is it that gun control seems to be the
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: one issue politicians won't touch?
• 45:47
  Speaker 21: That would be political suicide. In the U.S., in an
• 45:53
  Speaker 21: election year, when you're running for president.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: You don't.
• 45:56
  Speaker 21: Say anything bad about guns. If Mitt Romney suggested some
• 46:00
  Speaker 21: sort of gun control, he would no longer be the
• 46:03
  Speaker 21: Republican nominee. I mean, the people would freak out and
• 46:06
  Speaker 21: he would be gone. President Obama I don't think would
• 46:09
  Speaker 21: get as much political fallout from it directly, but a
• 46:12
  Speaker 21: lot of Obama's political supporters in more conservative states, more
• 46:16
  Speaker 21: conservative districts, there's absolutely no way that they would get
• 46:19
  Speaker 21: reelected if he were to say something about that.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: So maybe we just have to press the politicians. A
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: few days later, it looks like I might get a chance.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: With tight security, President Obama makes a second visit to Denver.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: I decided this was one party I couldn't miss. Like
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: all American political rallies these days, the audience is made
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: up of hand-picked supporters.
• 46:50
  Speaker 11: As many of you know, I was in Aurora to
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: meet those who lost loved ones during that terrible shooting. Unfortunately,
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: since that time, we've had another tragedy in Oak Creek, Wisconsin,
• 47:02
  Speaker 11: where six members of our community were killed as they
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: entered into a house of worship. And so I think
• 47:10
  Speaker 11: we can all acknowledge we've got to put an end
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: to this kind of senseless violence.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: A worthwhile aim, but he doesn't say anything about guns.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: It's almost as though guns didn't play any part in
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: the Aurora killings. This is a pretty staged managed affair.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: And try as I might, I don't get a chance
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: to question the top man. Yeah, unfortunately, we won't be
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: able to get a word with him, but I would
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: have loved to ask him what he thinks about guns
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: and gun control and if anything's going to change or
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: if anything's going.
• 47:53
  Speaker 11: To be done.
• 47:53
  Speaker 15: I mean, he did mention Aurora and Wisconsin, but, you know,
• 47:58
  Speaker 15: he never mentioned what's going to happen with the guns.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: The politicians may not want to talk about guns, But
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: the authorities have responded, and this is how.
• 48:16
  Speaker 13: If you were ever to find yourself in the middle
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: of an active shooter event, your survival may depend on
• 48:22
  Speaker 13: whether or not you have a plan.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: This safety video from the City of Houston Mayor's Office
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: advises the public on how to deal with an armed intruder.
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: There are three things you could do that make a difference.
• 48:35
  Speaker 15: Run.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Hide.
• 48:38
  Speaker 11: Fight.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: In Texas, they clearly think a gunman on the loose
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: is a possibility worth planning for.
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: Encourage others to leave with you, but don't let them
• 48:47
  Speaker 13: slow you down with indecision.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: They're clearly stating that, you know, the right to bear
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: arms is something that they're going to keep in the
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: United States. Therefore, we should do other things in order
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: to stay protected. But guns are going to be there anyway,
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: so we better do something in order to save your life,
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: which is either run, hide or fight. Earlier this week,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: there's more confirmed. that getting caught up in a shooting
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: is a real possibility. Three people are shot dead on
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: a university campus 100 miles north of Houston.
• 49:40
  Speaker 11: People versus James Holmes, 12CR1522, appearances please.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Whilst I'm in Denver, James Holmes makes his second appearance
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: in court. If he's found guilty, what should happen to him?
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Some people have called for capital punishment. Colorado is one
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: of the US states where the death penalty is still legal, actually,
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: although the last person who was sentenced was 15 years ago.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I'm heading out of Denver, 100 miles northeast of the city,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: to see the place where many of the state's serious
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: offenders are held. This is Sterling Correctional Facility, Colorado's biggest
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: high security prison. It's a sobering sight. There's three men
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: in that maximum security prison on death row. Could James
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Holmes be joining them? If convicted, could he be sentenced
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: to death? It's a chilling thought. If James Holmes does
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: get sentenced, he might be facing the lethal injection. And
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: is that something that survivors of the dreadful night in
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Aurora believe should happen?
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: Nope.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Not that I'm against the death penalty, but let's not
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: make life easy for this man. He hasn't made life
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: easy for very many people. Honestly, I would put him
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: in general population in jail and say fend for yourself,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: figure it out.
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: I heard a lot of people say that they'd prefer
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: it if he suffered in jail, rot in a hole
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: in a cell. My personal perspective is... To be honest,
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know what to do.
• 51:42
  Speaker 14: It really all comes down to how much damage he's
• 51:47
  Speaker 14: caused and how much punishment he should get. But for me,
• 51:56
  Speaker 14: I think he should definitely get the death penalty.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a couple of little things
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: going on in my head. Part of me wonders if
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: he wanted to.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: Be dead, he'd.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Have shot himself. So part of me says I want
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: him to fry. just because I know that's not what
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: he wants. But the other part of me hopes and
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: prays that God fill his heart with a bunch of
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: guilt and that he has to wake up in a
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: 4x4 cell every day and deal with himself and live
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: with it. I think the death penalty is an easy
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: way out. It's like going to sleep before surgery.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: It's peaceful.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He doesn't deserve a peaceful death.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: And that's how I feel.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: My friends didn't get one.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Why should he? In the days after the shootings, the
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: people of Aurora come together to offer prayers for the
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: 12 lives that have been lost.
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: Tonight we come together to pray and to be with
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: one another. Some of us are survivors, family members, or
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: friends of those who suffered through this senseless and evil
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: act of violence.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: It's the first step toward rebuilding a community that has
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: been shattered by that terrible night. But it will be
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: a long road.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do this and I'm going to get
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: through this. But it's going to be hard forever. I'm
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: going to be reminded of this.
• 53:49
  Speaker 14: I'm slowly getting better by the days, but I know
• 53:52
  Speaker 14: it will come back and haunt me for the rest
• 53:55
  Speaker 14: of my life.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Others are still coming to terms, not just with the
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: horror of what they saw, but also with the feelings
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: of guilt that they survived and some of their friends didn't.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: I feel a little bit bad for not helping people
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: in there, but.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: I was scared. I was scared. I've been in Colorado
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: for two weeks, but my journey is now coming to
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: an end. Before I leave for London, I want to
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: take one last look at the memorial and pay my
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: last respects to the 12 people who died. It's also
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: a chance to reflect on what my journey has taught me. Well,
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: guns are something that, you know, Americans and people in
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: Colorado believe are part of their right, and they have
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: the right to bear arms. So it's something that they're
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: not going to let go so easily. It's something ingrained
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: in their culture. I don't think politicians are willing to
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: even start with this conversation. You know, it's something that
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: they've completely blanked. But attitudes for me have to change
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: in the people. I've realized here, I mean, it's almost
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: something like America equals guns, and in order to take
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: that away, it's no longer America, they feel, so it's
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: gonna be very, very hard. I don't think it will change.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: My big fear is that Aurora will change nothing, that
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: in a year's time, I'll be back, maybe in another
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: state or another city, reporting on another massacre.
• 56:34
  Speaker 11: The people we lost in Aurora loved, and they were loved.
• 56:40
  Speaker 11: They were mothers and fathers. They were husbands and wives,
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: sisters and brothers. sons and daughters, friends and neighbors. They
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: had hopes for the future, and they had dreams that
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: were not yet fulfilled. Life is very fragile. Our time
• 57:01
  Speaker 11: here is limited, and it is precious.