...Holmes, (click title to entry - thank you) who had only a speeding ticket on his police record, was dressed in black with a gas mask, ballistic helmet, vest, throat guard and crotch guard, Oates said....
Besides, I hear the gunman had taken classes at the Louie Gomer School of Self Defense, so he was ready. No one else was, but, he had heard from the Gomer School that people in theaters should be armed.
That is why the gas canisters, by the way. To disable anyone in the theater that could stop him. He wanted those people victimized and at his mercy to kill them all. He wasn't taking prisoners.
