A bug-eyed . . .?

 

Isn't it amusing how the media skews things? In describing James Holmes, the nutcase who killed all those people in Colorado, Jacquielynn Floyd called him "a bug-eyed gun freak." Do we know he was a "gun freak"? So far as we know, he owned no guns at all until just a short time before the shootings. Implications are that the guns were not the cause of the murders, but rather the murders were planned and then the tools to carry them out were procured. I hardly think that qualifies him as a "gun freak."

 

Holmes calls himself an agnostic. Why didn't she call him a "bug-eyed agnostic"? He wrote computer code for the university where he had an internship. Why didn't she call him a "bug-eyed computer nerd"? He was obviously obsessed with the Joker character from Batman. Why wasn't he called a "bug-eyed Joker freak"? He had sought psychiatric counseling at his school. Why didn't she call him a "bug-eyed mental case"? Holmes's apartment was booby-trapped with an intricate network of bombs, one of which was packaged in a white plastic trash bag with a remote control car as the trigger. Why didn't she call him a "bug-eyed Hefty Bag freak"? Or a "bug-eyed remote control car freak"?

 

I'll tell you why -- because those terms wouldn't fit with her political agenda. Her agenda is to control guns -- not movies or mental patients or electronics. Those guns had nothing to do with James Holmes's motivation, but some of those other things may have -- he was unstable emotionally, and he fixated on a fictional character and rigged traps consistent with antics that fictional character might have carried out.

 

William Spengler killed his mother with a hammer -- do you think she would refer to him as a "bug-eyed hammer freak"? I doubt it.

 

"Cinemark should rethink clumsy invite to survivors." The Dallas Morning News; January 4, 2013; p. 1B.