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The Case Of James Holmes Columbine High School Shooting

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On July 20, 2012, a terrible tragedy had taking place in aurora Colorado inside the century movie theater. This tragedy happened during the midnight screening of the film the dark knight rises which is based off the excerpts of the marvel character batman. A person walked into the theater, exploded tear gas grenades, and used guns to shoot into the audience killing twelve people and injuring 70 others. The person that did this horrible act was a man by the name of James Eagan Holmes, and he was arrested right outside of the century movie theater. Colorado has experienced this type of act before when going through the columbine high school shooting in 1999 but this was the deadliest act of violence since then. The shooting ultimately happened …show more content…

The notebook that was retrieved but never brought up in court should be permissible as evidence even though it was thrown out. That is clear and outright evidence that James Holmes was thinking about carrying out this mass shooting. After pleading it to his psychiatrist, the psychiatrist should have placed Holmes on a close level of watch and told the police and anybody else that should have been notified. In my opinion, if Holmes had actually told his psychiatrist that he was thinking about such a violent act, the psychiatrist is placed on a level of blame as well. This could have been put to a stop long before the mass shooting ever occurred. No person, mentally ill or not mentally ill, should ever take the life of 12 people and injure 70 plus people and think they will get away with it just because of a mentally insane defense plea. The youngest person that was injured in this shooting was a 4-month-old boy that was not initially shot but was injured during the shooting. Also a mother was critically injured during the attack, which led to a miscarriage. Now that is enough evidence to me, because of this shooter, a mother was not able to have her baby because she was critically injured from the attack. A baby’s life was taken away because of the selfish and narcissistic values James Holmes had portrayed. This country revolves around altruism and doing things for the greater good. James Holmes does not fit into that category so, in my opinion, I think he should be guilty as charged and either given the death penalty or at least given a sentence of life in

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