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Why James Holmes Has Fans On the Internet
Adrian Chen · 07/31/12 03:50PMThere are fans of everything on the internet. Even James Holmes, the 24-year-old accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting. What would drive a bunch of seemingly normal internet geeks to worship a mass murderer? To understand this, you'll have to journey to the dark heart of internet fandom.
Idaho Billboard Compares Obama to Aurora Shooter
Louis Peitzman · 07/29/12 04:34PMYou Can Become a Fan of James Holmes on Facebook (But You Shouldn't)
Louis Peitzman · 07/28/12 01:59PMReport: Aurora Shooting Suspect Mailed Notebook with Massacre Plans to Psychiatrist
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/25/12 11:45AMSix Dumb Arguments We're Hearing About the Aurora Shooting
Mobutu Sese Seko · 07/25/12 09:20AMJames Holmes Won't Stop Spitting at Correction Officers
Louis Peitzman · 07/24/12 09:58PMIs James Holmes a Nerd?
Max Read · 07/24/12 10:00AMHere's something that almost all the mass killers of the last fifteen years or so have in common: they've been called "nerds." James Holmes, who allegedly murdered 12 people in a crowded Colorado movie theater on Friday morning, was described as a "nerd" by his uncle within hours of the shooting. Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is, in the Telegraph, a "puffy-faced computer game nerd." Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were "innocuous nerds," the Los Angeles Times claimed in 1999.
Here Are the Most Insane Aurora Shooting Conspiracy Theories
Louis Peitzman · 07/23/12 09:31PMColumnist: If James Holmes Was a Muslim, The Shooting Might Not Have Happened
Hamilton Nolan · 07/23/12 11:30AMBy contrasting the ease with which Aurora shooter James Holmes ordered guns and ammunition online with the rapid FBI response when a Muslim would-be terrorist in Aurora sent a single suspicious email a few years ago, Denver Post columnist Chuck Murphy states the obvious in his column today: this mass shooting might have turned out very differently if James Holmes had been named Ibrahim or Mohammed.
Here Is the Public's First Look at Shooting Suspect James Holmes
Emma Carmichael · 07/23/12 10:40AMApartment of Aurora Shooting Suspect Filled with Explosives, Looked 'Like Mad Scientist Lair'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/23/12 08:11AMAmerican Family Association News Director Blames Mass Shooting on ACLU, Gays, Liberal Churches
Louis Peitzman · 07/21/12 12:38PMMSNBC Gives Colorado Shooting Animation Treatment
Kate Bennert · 07/20/12 08:36PMReport: James Holmes Was on Prescription Drugs at Time of Shooting
Taylor Berman · 07/20/12 07:18PMFormer Teacher Describes James Holmes As Brilliant, Neighbors Say He Was A Shy Polite Loner
Taylor Berman · 07/20/12 06:46PMThere Is No Such Thing as 'Politicizing' a Tragedy
Max Read · 07/20/12 05:25PMIt hasn't even been 24 hours since a gunman opened fire on a crowded movie theater in Colorado and you can already predict the entire, familiar scene: the days and days of arguments about gun control, about mental health treatment access, about violence in movies and television. And, of course, the angry accusations that one person or another is "politicizing tragedy," unquestionably the worst sin in post-tragedy rhetoric.
A Roundup of Gawker's Coverage of the Dark Knight Shooting
Emma Carmichael · 07/20/12 03:55PMHere's a Photo of Dark Knight Shooting Suspect James Holmes
Max Read · 07/20/12 10:58AMWhat Is 9gag and Why Is It Being Blamed for the Colorado Shooting?
Adrian Chen · 07/20/12 09:57AMAs people cast about for some explanation for the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colo., rumors have spread on Twitter and other social networks that the meme-swapping message board 9gag was somehow responsible, and that the 24-year-old suspect James Holmes had posted about his plan to shoot up a theater yesterday. They're almost certainly false.