>>>>See http://www.ibtimes.com/us-gun-control-debate-what-can-we-learn-switzerland-732104 for a detailed description of the difference.
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>>>>Walter,
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>>>Snip from link:
>>>"In the case of Aurora, the argument is that Holmes could have been stopped quickly if one or more of the moviegoers had been carrying"
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>>>I've a feeling that, in reality, if other people had started shooting it would have ended in an armed equivalent of a bar-room brawl. Just general confusion as to who was shooting at who. Of course, whilst not reducing the level of gun ownership it would reduce the number of gun owners :-}
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>>There is also the thought that he went specifically to that theater because it was one of the few that didn't allow concealed carry. Apparently, most places in Colorado will allow concealed carry as long as you can show the CC license. And of course, this leads directly into the whole 'if someone had been armed at the school....' argument. I still fall back to the question "What was going on in his life that he saw this as a reasonable response?"
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>Isn't the working theory that his mother was trying to have him forcibly institutionalized and he concluded she loved the schoolchildren more than him? The kids weren't in the wrong place at the wrong time, they were the targets. That's the theory, anyway. And bearing in mind that he was evidently as mad as a hatter.

Based on what I've read, yes - that is one of the theories they are working from. Apparently Mom had volunteered last year with the kindergarten class quite a bit and that's why he went after the 1st graders.