Twelve people were killed and 70 wounded. The theater was remodeled after the attack. It sat empty on Tuesday, shuttered during the pandemic, as snow began to swirl and Luevano bundled up to head into a mall across the street.
He was still reeling from the idea that the latest Colorado community to join the grim brotherhood was the tony, college town of Boulder. Colorado has taken some action to restrict access to guns. Survivors of Columbine and family of the victims there helped push a ballot measure that required background checks for guns purchased at gun shows.
Those measures led to the recall of two state senators, but the laws endured. After the Parkland shooting in Florida, the Colorado Legislature passed laws allowing for the confiscation of guns from people engaged in threatening behavior. There has been rebellion from some rural sheriffs, but no recalls now.
Three years ago, the city of Boulder went further and banned assault weapons. The Republican congressman who represented Aurora was replaced in by Democratic Rep.
Jason Crow, a gun control proponent. Still, the appetite for gun rights supporters has not dissipated completely. The weekend attack follows a series of mass shootings — defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter — to plague the U.
After the Boulder shooting, Colorado lawmakers introduced a bill to create a state Office of Gun Violence Prevention to educate residents about gun safety and collect data on Colorado gun violence.
Other bills advancing through the Democratic-led Legislature would tighten background checks, allow municipalities greater freedom to adopt gun control laws that are stricter than state law, and require a person facing a protection order related to domestic violence to report what firearms they possess. This story has been corrected to show that Colorado Springs police Lt.
Sections U. Science Technology Business U. A better alternative, Nicoletti said, is to be as prepared as possible while not accepting that shootings are inevitable. Countless active shooter drills that have been carried out in schools and workplaces since Columbine are one example of that. Another is simply observing where all the exits are when you enter a building. Now everybody wears helmets. You adapt, and you carry on. That includes her role as a member of the Rebels Project, a local non-profit that helps survivors of mass shootings from around the world connect with one another.
She, like other survivors, has spent years finding her own coping strategies. Mental health care, including therapy, has been a big help, she said. But her fears can creep up again after she hears about another school shooting. It's been reignited. Colorado ranked fifth in the country for most mass shootings since in a analysis by The Denver Post. Several of the shootings have occurred over a relatively small area, including Aurora, the site of a movie theater rampage that left 12 people dead and dozens more injured, and Littleton, where two high school seniors killed 12 classmates and a teacher and injured 21 other people at Columbine High School in Other high-profile mass shootings include a attack on two churches in Colorado Springs and Arvada and a shooting at a Walmart Supercenter in the Denver suburb of Thornton.
Experts are divided over why Colorado appears to have a disproportionate share of mass shootings, but contributing factors include a contagion effect stemming from Columbine and easy access to firearms, they say. Court documents did not identify the weapon used in Monday's shooting; witnesses described the killer as using an AR-style weapon, the affidavit said. James Holmes, who was behind the Aurora shooting, bought his weapons legally in the months leading up to his attack.
The Columbine shooters bought their firearms from a friend, who had purchased the weapons legally at a gun show. Monday's mass killing came 10 days after a judge blocked a ban on assault rifles that the city of Boulder passed in , The Associated Press reported.
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