Quote: chipolata @ July 20 2012, 1:37 PM BST
The Matrix has inspired a few shooting sprees too.
I don't think a movie on it's own can 'inspire' a shooting spree. If you are crazy ape shit bonkers, then you're going to kill people regardless of the media you're exposed too.
You could try banning guns - but it won't work - because if you can buy drugs, then you can buy guns. Or the nutters will just build bombs or other devices to kill vast amounts of people.
Hell, if you're determined enough, you could take flying lessons and steer a passenger jet into a building.
The causes for this incident has to be looked at on a more societal level - why would someone who presumably attended the same churches, schools, jobs, etc. as everyone else, suddenly freak out and kill people in a cinema?
Quote: Shandonbelle @ July 20 2012, 1:45 PM BST
They don't know that yet, nothing random about it in the mad f**kers mind, he must have planned this quite well.
I'm calling it random unless every member of the audience all belonged to the same political / religious / racial affiliations.