The Federal Future Crimes Threat Assessment Agency

By Mike McDaniel

TTAG readers are, I’m sure, familiar with the 2012 active shooter attack on a Colorado theater. The killer, who would want his name to be prominently mentioned here, killed 12 and wounded 70. He used an AR-15 pattern rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun, and a GLOCK 22 handgun (.40 S&W), all legally purchased. The killer has pled not guilty by reason of insanity and his trial is currently underway. Unlike what some might suppose from popular fiction, insanity defenses do not often succeed. In Colorado, the burden of proving a defendant’s sanity is on the prosecution. Even if one is clearly mentally ill, in order to prevail with such a defense, they must be able to get credible mental health professionals to testify they were, at the time of the crime, incapable of telling right from wrong . . .

In this case, that’s going to be difficult at best. The killer not only meticulously planned the murders over a substantial span of time, he sat in the theater for a time after the movie began, left by an emergency door, propped the door open, changed into various items of tactical clothing, including a gas mask, deployed several …read more

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