I think Warner Bros should just go ahead and say they're going to donate a portion of the film's WW gross to the victims' families. Even 1%, heck, even 0.5%, would mean a lot to those families when it's just pocket changes to the studio. And it may help in encouraging people who became hesitant due to tragedy back to the theater since they could feel they're doing something to help the healing process. It's a win-win situation for them comparing to simply not report any numbers.

I don't see how it's a win-win for them. I think it does nothing but imply guilt when none is there for them to weather. If someone should be giving money to the victims' families it's the NRA.

The shooting should very much have a widespread effect as far as gun control, security, approach of mental illness etc. are concerned. On a society-wide scale, yes.

It should NOT have an effect on fucking TV spots of a movie, box-office reporting etc. That's insane and, IMO, essentially an admission of some sort of guilt that does not exist.

I generally agree. Dieing in freak accidents is a part of life. So many more will die in drunk driving accidents this year that they deserve no blame for, than in movie theatre shootings. I think this is a matter more of anger that there can be monsters and murderers out there who take out their own failures of a life out on others.

I would go as far to say the number of mass murder events is relatively low considering of the 300 million people in the US there's a lot of insane, sociopathic suicidal attention whores. Think about how many pedophiles there are in the US, which is just about the most sick and immoral thing you can be, even worse than a mass murderer arguably (not to mention there's plenty who double up as pedo + killing kids to wipe the evidence, making them the absolute fucking worst people on the planet) Yes, one reason why there'd be more pedos than public place mass murderers is that the former can get away with it without going to jail for life or getting the needle. But there's no shortage of suicidal people either so I'm not sure that explains it. I would seem to me like it would fit our fked up index as humans for there to be regular events of a guy with an uzi walking out into a street and unloading on a crowd after yelling say hello to my little friend, but luckily this stuff is pretty rare at least for now.

The best thing the media to prevent events like this in the future is to commit to not reporting about these stories and not show his face on TV. Just have a meeting of the networks Godfather style and make a commitment in writing that nobody will put murderers faces on TV. Of course that would require the media not being soul sucking vampires who are probably very happy this event happened. Also capital punishment should come back for cases like this. It's technically legal in COL but they've killed like one guy in 25 years so in reality, not really. IMO if a wife blows her husbands head off with a shotgun in an act of passion capital punishment is unnecessary but a mass murder is at a different level of "We need to make sure everyone who's thinking about doing this knows that they gonna die". I also recommend bringing back the electric chair just to scare the fuck out of them. If the electric chair instead of the needle scares at least one cowardly dipshit enough to prevent a mass murder it's 1000% worth it.

You guys make me puke. In Syria, a dictator has been eliminating his own people for 1.5 year because he desperately wants to remain in power. The world has the power to stop it, but it hasn't since it started in March 2011.