A little over 8 miles from each other, 16 miles from the site of the Aurora movie theater massacre.

Point A is Columbine High School and Point B is Arapahoe High School.

Point A is Arapahoe High School and Point B is Cinemark Theater in Aurora, Colorado.

Three major shooting in this country and there is NOTHING they have in common, right? I mean are you joking.

Aurora, Centennial and Columbine are all within the I70 and 470 loop.

There was another astounding murder in Colorado in Pueblo County.

Published time: April 04, 2013 18:26 
Edited time: May 13, 2013 14:09

Colorado authorities suspect two white supremacists (click here) may have been involved in the fatal shooting of a state prison chief that answered the door to his house, only to be greeted with gunfire.

The alleged white supremacists, 47-year-old James Franklin Lohr and 31-year-old Thomas James Guolee, are believed to be part of a prison gang called the 211 Crew, according to a Reuters report based on statements made by Lieutenant Jeff Kramer, a spokesman for Colorado’s El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.

The murder victim, prison chief Tom Clements, was shot dead when he answered the door to his home located 45 miles from Denver on March 19. Judicial officials on Monday announced that Evan Spencer Ebel, a former convict and alleged member of the 211 Crew, was the main suspect involved in the shooting.

Due to a clerical mistake, Evans had been mistakenly released from prison in January, even though he had only served part of his sentence.

“It sounds like a horrific oversight,” Pueblo County Commissioned Buffie McFadyen told AP, referring to the mistake that led to the man’s early release. “It’s tragic clerical error.”

After killing Clements, shooting a pizza delivery driver on March 17, and engaging in a roadside gun battle with Texas policemen on March 21, Ebel himself was found dead. His weapon, a 9 mm Smith & Wesson, was linked to the fatal shooting of Clements just two days earlier....

Denver - murder/suicide - Mother and two children

By Sadie Gurman
The Denver Post

POSTED:   02/06/2013 07:30:04 AM MST

UPDATED:   02/07/2013 08:13:50 AM MST

Mayra Perez (click here) called her mother Tuesday night to get a recipe for gorditas. She also quarreled with her husband, who left for the night to cool off.

By early morning, Perez and two of her children were dead, a third was in critical condition and her relatives were struggling to understand what happened in the family's northeast Denver home....

Murders by parolees in Colorado.

By Jennifer Brown, Christopher N. Osher and Karen E. Crummy
The Denver Post

POSTED:   09/22/2013 12:01:00 AM MDT

UPDATED:   09/27/2013 01:24:48 PM MDT

The prediction (click here) that Ishmael Shelton had a 2-in-3 chance of committing another crime when he left prison on parole was deadly accurate. Eight months later, he stabbed his girlfriend to death.

Parolee Douglas Taylor didn't get picked up for violating his parole or on an assault charge. Still on the streets, he torched an Aurora apartment building in a jealous rage, killing a man.

Longtime criminal Terry Leslie skipped out on his parole officer five months before he murdered a Lakewood attorney who was found in his basement bound by duct tape.

All three are among 33 inmates who walked out of Colorado prisons and were convicted or charged with murders while on parole since 2002 — in some cases within a matter of weeks.

Between them, they took or are accused of taking 38 lives, including that of a pregnant woman a month away from her due date whose unborn daughter also died....

Despite all the gun violence in Colorado the Right Wing Gun Zealots continue to escalate danger of so many guns in their state.

By JACK HEALY and DAN FROSCH

Published: September 11, 2013

DENVER (click here) — When Colorado passed a series of tough gun restrictions last winter, Democrats and gun control advocates hailed it as a sign of changing attitudes in a Western swing state. But moments after a pivotal vote in the state Senate, a Republican lawmaker named Greg Brophy warned that Colorado’s independent-leaning voters would rebel against the new laws....

The loose gun laws are ONLY empowering the criminal.

By Sadie Gurman
The Denver Post

POSTED:   07/14/2013 12:01:00 AM MDT

UPDATED:   07/15/2013 12:11:39 PM MDT

The deadly shooting of a would-be intruder (click here) in southeast Denver last week was the first documented case in more than a year in which a city dweller defended himself with a gun during a home invasion.

Most people who buy guns say they do so to protect themselves and their families at home. But experts say, and Denver police data show, that such situations are extremely rare.

An intruder used a gun in 44 home-invasion robberies reported last year to Denver police. Police reported no cases in which the resident used a gun in self-defense.

There have been at least 10 home invasions involving guns so far this year, including the July 7 case in the 3200 block of South Glencoe Street, where a homeowner fatally shot Charles McLaughlin, 29, who police said tried to force his way into the house. He was unsuccessful, but a struggle continued onto the porch, where the gunman, whom police have not identified, shot him to death....

...Kellermann's 1994 study of 198 cases in Atlanta showed, among other findings, that victims used a firearm in self-protection 1.5 percent of the time — or in just three cases. Just one victim opened fire on the assailant but missed. All three escaped injury....


Guns in the conscience of an American in the year 2013 is about self-defense. The reality is that few gun owners actually fell comfortable with them. A gun can be used against it's owner as well. The free flow of guns in the USA endangers the public in general, provides the wrong sense of masculinity to young men and provides military threats to our southern border with Mexican Drug Cartels. What are we actually doing? We are living in fear when we are creating it ourselves.

When I owned a gun over 28 years ago for self-protection it caused more problems and presented more danger than it solved and it was never worth the trouble or the money I paid for it. I will never own one again. There was no rational reason for me to own a weapon. None. I purchased it out of fear because I was told I should be afraid. There was no significant murder rates, rape or any crime in my life or neighborhood that one would use a gun for self-protection. Purchasing one was the most ridiculous thing I ever did with money.

Guns and teens

There are physiological reasons why older teens are very poor candidates for gun purchases. WE KNOW brain development between the ages of 18 to 21 takes on changes not indicative of any other age. It is not a mental health issue although sometimes those problems manifest in that age group. Sometimes schizophrenia manifests for the first time in this age group. If one performs a computer search of "schizophrenia and 19 years old" there is a myriad entries from the age of 19 through 23 and mostly are male.

By Dr. Erik Steele, a physician in Bangor, is chief medical officer of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems.

Posted April 25, 2013, at 12:04 p.m.     

Among the most mysterious things (click here) on the planet is the brain of a male in his late teens. It has been designed by evolution for purpose without much perspective, passion without much reason, reproduction without much responsibility and performance without caution. If it was a car, it would be a Corvette convertible with 430 horsepower, no seat belts or brakes and a horn that blared, “Hey, babe, wanna go for a ride?”

That’s why we send their owners to goal lines and front lines, but don’t let them drink until they are 21. That’s why we love having them as sons but are reluctant to have them date our daughters. And as we were reminded last Monday in Boston’s marathon, it’s why we should not be surprised that among the millions of teen males growing up around us, one of them seems like a great kid one day and — under the influence of an influential, older ringleader — does something stupid, crazy or appalling the next....

These are some of the symptoms of schizophrenia by the Mayo Clinic and if it doesn't sound like an older teen male, don't ask me what does. These symptoms are also that of depression. Are all teens requiring a diagnosis, of course not, but I think that is the point. Isn't it? It is difficult to discern real problems from elusive problems that dissipate into adulthood.

Negative symptoms (click here)
Negative symptoms refer to a diminishment or absence of characteristics of normal function. They may appear with or without positive symptoms. They include:

Loss of interest in everyday activities

Appearing to lack emotion

Reduced ability to plan or carry out activities

Neglect of personal hygiene

Social withdrawal

Loss of motivation

The USA is having an epidemic of violence in their high schools. It has gone on now for more than a century. The escalation of gun violence stared in the early 1900s and I'm sorry but they are primarily young men. But, it exploded in the 1990s. The stark difference from the past is what invoked The Assault Weapons Ban.

October 10, 201112:00 PM
Under most laws, (click here) young people are recognized as adults at age 18. But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25. Guest host Tony Cox discusses the research and its implications with Sandra Aamodt, neuroscientist and co-author of the book Welcome to Your Child's Brain....

This is Mondragon. It is the first semi-automatic weapon developed in the 1880s and patented in the 1887. Note the 'clip' in front of the trigger. This weapon was developed first in Mexico and later was used in battle beginning in 1903. The school shooting increased dramatically from the past in the USA in the 1990s.

I am a strong believer in statistics and the PREDICTABLE manifestation of product infusion into a society. That is what has occurred with assault weapons. It very obvious. As soon as there was a better wigget, the distribution in society was nearly automatic. The use grew in preference of having a badder and better gun. 

In the 1900s the USA was still primarily an agrarian society. Owning and using firearms was a NECESSITY. Hunting was a mainstay to a families survival. Guns were used to defend homes from criminals. So, the APPEARANCE of them in crime also escalated and they appeared in schools as solutions to arguments, etc. In many cases in the past history of the USA, these young men killed themselves as well as their victims victims. Murder-suicide is caused by mental health problems and/or social pressures of poverty or social rejection. The question as to whether social rejection occurs before social isolation in any of these cases involving mental health.

One could argue automatic weapons have been around for centuries and it would be true, however, the use of them in regularity didn't occur until the Gatling gun in 1861. But, those were military weapons and large and heavy. The lightweight machine gun occurred in 1991 in the Thompson submachine gun. The weapon of choice for gangsters in the early 1900s. Perhaps the most famous CIVIL use of these weapons was the St. Valentine Day's Massacre. But, it was a massacre, wasn't it? The automatic weapons was never sincerely a benevolent part of the USA society. It eventually would be banned from gun sales in the USA.

Assault weapons have been a focus in military combat and the USA would never expect a soldier not to operate one in protection of their own lives. But, to translate that into the civil experience has failed. They are available, the the success use of these guns in a social environment has failed. The assault weapon has not been a good friend on any occasion it manifests in the media when reporting horrendous events of massacre.

Seventy one young people were killed by weapons in schools during the 1990s. The highest decade of deaths by gun in schools in the countries history. The most in that decade was Columbine. Up to that event there were 55 schools deaths by gun and Columbine then took an additional 15. The largest group of that decade. Previous to Columbine there were 1 or 2, I think there was one instance of five. 

The Assault Weapon's Ban was invoked in 1994. Following that ban there was ONE child dead by gun in that decade. Columbine was a turning point for the USA.  

The shooting in schools still occurred in the 2000s. There were ten deaths in schools that century until September of 2004.

updated 9/13/2004 8:28:49 PM ET

BOISE, Idaho — The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban (click here) on assault weapons means firearms like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s can now be legally bought — a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.

The 1994 ban, signed by then President Clinton, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons. A clause directed that the ban expire unless Congress specifically reauthorized it, which it did not.

Studies done by pro- and anti-gun groups as well as the Justice Department show conflicting results on whether the ban helped reduce crime. Loopholes allowed manufacturers to keep many weapons on the market simply by changing their names or altering some of their features or accessories....

There were 59 schools deaths for the remainder of that decade. The worst were the lives of 33 people at Virginia Tech. The expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban returned the violence to the school environment as it was before it was enacted.

In the 2010s the numbers of deaths in schools increased in only 4 years beyond the total of 2000s. To date in the 2010's decade there are 73 deaths, the largest being Sandy Hook in Connecticut numbering 28, the next was six in Santa Monica. The other shooting in this decade were one or two deaths with the next largest was three.

Obviously, the Assault Weapons Ban secured the most dangerous guns within our society out of the hands of young people. There is no dispute about that. These are events in a place which is a vital component to a young person's DEVELOPEMENT and it DIRECTLY relates to the success they have in life. 

Schools are vital to the nation's brain trust and I resist to get clinical about this, but, the allowance of these weapons within the USA society directly relates to it's competitiveness in the world, including national security. If young people don't believe they are safe they will be distracted to their academic achievements. Guns are an inhibition to a young person's success in life. You don't have to take my word for it, all one has to do is realize the decline of USA's education success in relation to other nations where guns are banned completely.

The fact young people can enter the military as early as 16 years old and that means their brain development might even lend itself to being a good soldier, however, that same brain development in our society adds danger to their lives.

Now, either the country comes to term with the fact dangerous guns are a detriment to the educational environment of our children or don't complain when the USA can't supply enough engineers to bring real jobs back to the USA.

The global community can help end gun violence in the USA by removing dangerous guns from products imported by the USA and adding criminal penalties to any violation of those prohibitions. Additionally. End the commercial ads to the public of any nation of these weapons no different than cigarettes and cancer. Assault weapons in the world is a cancer and needs to be ended as a means to an economic component of any society.