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Gun-insanity survivors come together in Aurora

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AURORA, Colo. — Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut were among those gathered yesterday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater, one year after the attack. Vigil participants read a list of names of those killed in recent gun... Reported by NY Post 13 hours ago.

Aurora victims honored; gun groups rally

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Aurora victims honored; gun groups rally Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut gathered with dozens of supporters Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater a day before the anniversary of the attack. Reported by Journal Gazette 12 hours ago.

Aurora theater shooting anniversary marked with tears, strength, love

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Under the moonlight, a large crowd gathered Saturday morning near the Aurora movie theater where one year ago a gunman killed 12 and injured dozens of others. Reported by Denver Post 11 hours ago.

One year after Aurora theater massacre, the show goes on

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AURORA, Colo. — Inside the renovated and renamed theater where James Holmes shot 70 people, killing 12, some patrons gaze at the 3-D violence beaming on the colossal screen, yet silently mull the true horror that erupted in that darkened room one year ago. Reported by msnbc.com 10 hours ago.

One year after Aurora massacre, victims grieve as Holmes's sanity probed

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One year after 12 people were slain and dozens more wounded in a massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. Reported by msnbc.com 9 hours ago.

Remembering the Aurora shooting victims

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The city of Aurora, Colo., will host various events Saturday as part of a day of remembrance honoring victims of the mass movie theater shooting that occurred one year ago.The day’s events begin at 7:30 a.m. MT with a community gathering on the lawn of the Aurora Municipal Center. Reported by msnbc.com 9 hours ago.

Aurora Shooting Survivors Get Married on Shooting Anniversary

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A couple that survived the Aurora theater shooting in Colorado have decided to tie the knot on the anniversary of the horrific attack. Eugene Han and Kirstin Davis had been dating since 2010 and attended the screening with several other friends, ABC News reported. They got seats near the emergency exit in the theater, and saw gunman James Holmes enter and throw a gas canister into the crowd, with a gun strapped to him. They were shot at and Han took two b... Reported by Softpedia 7 hours ago.

Aurora Shooting Anniversary Looms

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Almost a year ago, a gunman opened fire in a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing twelve people at a midnight showing of Batman. The alleged shooter is James Holmes, who has pleaded guilty by reason of insanity. Weekend Edition Saturday host Linda Wertheimer speaks with Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee about the progress of the legal case. Reported by NPR 7 hours ago.

'Dark Knight' massacre in Aurora: Coloradans seek healing one year later

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Coloradans looked for ways to heal as they mark the anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored "Day of Remembrance." Reported by NY Daily News 6 hours ago.

A year after Aurora theater shootings, Colorado city looks for healing

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Coloradans looked for ways to heal as they mark the anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored 'Day of Remembrance.' It was one year ago Saturday that a gunman opened fire early into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film 'The Dark Knight Rises.' Reported by San Jose Mercury News 5 hours ago.

One Year Later, Aurora Looks For Healing

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AURORA, Colo. -- Some recited the names of the dead. Some are doing good deeds for their neighbors. And some will practice yoga, take a nature walk or simply talk.

Coloradans looked for ways to heal as they mark the anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored "Day of Remembrance."

It was one year ago Saturday that a gunman opened fire early into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." The rampage lasted less than two minutes but left deep wounds that still ache today in Aurora, Colorado's third-largest city which spreads out across the rolling plains on Denver's eastern side.

Twelve people died, including a 6-year-old girl. Seventy were hurt, some of them paralyzed. Countless others inside the theater and out bear the invisible wounds of emotional trauma.

"There's no script for something like this," said Nancy Sheffield, who helped plan the Day of Remembrance. What the city wants, she said, is "the ultimate way to remember the victims, the families, the survivors, in a healing way and going forward for our community."

Democratic state Rep. Rhonda Fields, whose district includes the renamed Cinemark theater, said she is still numb and in mourning.

"It hasn't fully mended after a year," she said.

Fields said she isn't surprised by that. Her son, Javad Marshall-Fields, and his fiancee were shot to death in 2005 to keep Marshall-Fields from testifying in a murder trial.

"I'm all too familiar to losing someone to gun violence," Fields said. "I know someone's missing that used to be part of the unit."

At about noon on Friday, Fields and other volunteers began reading the names of the more than 2,500 people who have been died in gun-related violence in the U.S. since the Newtown, Conn., massacre in December. The last volunteer to read names was Stephen Barton, who was wounded last year in the theater shooting.

Immediately after Barton was finished, the group of about 40 volunteers held a moment of silence at 12:38 a.m. Saturday, the time the shooting began one year earlier. The silence lasted for 82 seconds to represent the 12 people killed and the 70 who were wounded in the theater.

The ceremony under temporary flood lights at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora was sponsored by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, not the city of Aurora. A gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, contended that the ceremony wrongly politicized a tragedy to promote gun control, so it staged a counter-rally nearby.

Saturday starts with an early-morning ceremony on the lawn outside Aurora's city hall with music, a poem and remarks from Mayor Steve Hogan and a pastor.

For the rest of the day, residents were encouraged to volunteer for community projects ranging from painting at a church to tending a community garden, from sorting food bank donations to donating blood.

Spiritual and mental health counselors will be available, along with art therapy projects, yoga, a nature walk and poetry readings.

Anniversary observances of tragedies can help victims heal, said Charles Figley, a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and director of the university's Traumatology Institute.

"They bring people together and they recognize that they're not alone, that they are part of something bigger than they are, and that's protection. It's a sense of safety," he said.

People who endure a trauma commonly face five questions, Figley said: What happened; why did it happen; why did I act the way I did at the time, and since; what if it happens again?

"So when you have a gathering, they're able to more completely answer those questions for themselves, and communities can answer those questions for themselves," Figley said.

Saturday's events were well chosen, Fields said.

"Basically the focus is on the victims and their loss and the way to get the community together around a common purpose," she said

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Follow Dan Elliott at http://twitter.com/DanElliottAP Reported by Huffington Post 5 hours ago.

Aurora, victims forever changed, but fighting back

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AURORA — People have begun gathering outside the Aurora Municipal Center to mark the first anniversary of the deaths of 12 people and the injury of at least 70 others in a mass shooting that forever changed an entire community. Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.

New Ad: Survivor Of Aurora Theater Massacre Reflects On One Year Anniversary Of Shooting, Asks Washington Lawmakers To Finally Take Action To Reduce Gun Violence

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Stephen Barton Survived the Shooting in Aurora, CO one year ago today Television ad follows Friday remembrance event for the 12 killed and 70 more injured www.DemandAction.org/oneyear WASHINGTON, July 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns today... Reported by PR Newswire 4 hours ago.

Aurora shooting anniversary: Is rhetoric mightier than the gun?

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Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Aurora, Colorado, shooting which killed 12 people and wounded many more. Since then, there have been both advances and setbacks in gun control. Reported by Christian Science Monitor 4 minutes ago.

Aurora holds Day of Remembrance for victims of cinema shooting

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One year on from shooting in which 12 died and 70 were injured, mayor pays tribute to 'resilience' of Colorado city

Resident of Aurora held a Day of Remembrance on Saturday, to mark the one-year anniversary of the movie-theatre shooting that continues to scar the Colorado city.

On 20 July 2012, a gunman opened fire early into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. The shooting lasted less than two minutes but left deep wounds that still ache in Colorado's third-largest city, which spreads out across the rolling plains on Denver's eastern side. Twelve people died, including a six-year-old girl, and 70 were hurt, some of them paralyzed. Countless others bear the invisible wounds of emotional trauma.

James Holmes, a once promising neuroscientist, is accused of carrying out the shooting. Police say he had a rifle with a high-capacity magazine, able to fire 100 bullets. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity; his lawyers say he carried out the shootings "in the throes of a psychotic episode".

Parents, siblings and survivors attended a morning ceremony of prayer, song and remembrance outside Aurora's City Hall. Several hundred people, including police and fire personnel and members of Colorado's congressional delegation, bowed their heads as the names of the dead were read. A small bell tolled after each. The Hinkley High School choir sang Amazing Grace.

"One year ago, the peace of our community was shattered," said the Aurora mayor, Steve Hogan. "We are still seeking justice. It is important for us to remember that one senseless act does not, cannot and will not define us as a community. This is a story of resilience, not just of Aurora but of humankind.

The Colorado governor, John Hickenlooper, told the crowd that many people still struggle with unanswered questions. "I know I do," he said.

Dr Camilla Sasson, an emergency room physician at the University of Colorado, struggled through tears as she recounted the efforts of police and medical personnel to save lives. "It is absolutely a miracle that 58 people survived that night," she said.

Mourners held white roses and, as the ceremony ended, laid them beneath a large wreath bearing the inscription "In memory of those lost and those whose lives were forever changed". For the rest of the day, residents were encouraged to volunteer for community projects ranging from painting at a church to tending a community garden, from sorting food-bank donations to donating blood. Spiritual and mental health counselors were available, along with art therapy projects and poetry readings.

Democratic state representative Rhonda Fields, whose district includes the renamed Cinemark theater, said she is still numb and in mourning. "It hasn't fully mended after a year," she said, adding that she was not surprised by that. Her son, Javad Marshall-Fields, and his fiancée were shot to death in 2005, to keep Marshall-Fields from testifying in a murder trial.

"I'm all too familiar to losing someone to gun violence," Fields said. "I know someone's missing that used to be part of the unit."

On Friday and into early Saturday, Fields and other volunteers read the names of the more than 2,500 people who have been killed in gun-related violence in the US since the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting in December. The last volunteer to read names was Stephen Barton, who was wounded in the theater shooting. Immediately after Barton was finished, about 40 volunteers held a moment of silence at 12.38am, the time the shooting began one year earlier. The silence lasted for 82 seconds, to represent the 12 people killed and the 70 who were wounded.

The ceremony, under temporary floodlights at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, was sponsored by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, not the city of Aurora. A gun-rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, contended the ceremony wrongly politicized a tragedy to promote gun control, so it staged a counter-rally nearby. Mayors Against Illegal Guns began running a TV ad on Saturday in eight cities. In it, Barton describes his confusion during the attack and says he wondered afterward: "Why it had to happen to us at all? And who'll be next?" The spot is running in Denver, Washington, DC and six cities in states represented by US senators who in April voted against a failed bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 day ago.

Aurora marks anniversary of movie massacre amid gun debate

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One year after a gunman killed 12 people in an Aurora movie theater, the city is marking its losses with solemn moments and a continuing debate over the place of guns in society. Reported by CNN.com 23 hours ago.

'Story of resilience': Aurora pays homage to shooting victims

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Coloradans paid tribute to the victims of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored "Day of Remembrance" marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting on Saturday.The day’s events began early with a community gathering on the lawn of the Aurora Municipal Center. Reported by msnbc.com 22 hours ago.

Aurora, Colo., marks one year since movie theater shooting

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AURORA, Colo. — Some recited the names of the dead. Some did good deeds for their neighbors. Some practiced yoga, walked through nature or simply talked. And two got married.

On Saturday, Coloradans marked the anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored “Day of Remembrance.” It was one year ago that a gunman opened fire into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.” The rampage lasted less than two minutes but left deep wounds that still ache in Aurora, Colorado’s third-largest city, which spreads across the rolling plains east of Denver.

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Sanjay Sanghoee: Where Is Gun Control?

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This Friday was the one year anniversary of the horrific shootings in a darkened movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, a day that will live in infamy in our history and forever taint our social legacy. The gunman had in his possession an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 12-gauge 870 shotgun, and two 40 caliber Glock handguns.

Following the shooting I wrote my first piece on gun control called 'Why Gun Control is Patriotic'. It was a plea for common sense and for a meaningful response to the growing scourge of gun violence in America, and in it I was joined by many more voices, especially after the tragedy in Newton, Connecticut, where 20 children were killed in an elementary school by a crazed gunman who had with him a Bushmaster M-4 carbine with high capacity 30 round clips, a Glock 10mm handgun, and a Sig-Sauer 9mm handgun.

Yet, even after these incidents, not to mention several others, and despite the intense public outcry for the government to act after Newtown, we still have not made any real progress on gun control.

Part of the reason is the well-oiled and well-financed public relations and political machine of the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, who have done everything in their power to crush any type of legislation, no matter how urgently needed, that could restrict the sale of weapons to civilians. This includes expanded background checks, which was defeated earlier this year in the U.S. Senate by Republicans intent on preserving their gravy train provided by the powerful gun lobby.

The other part of the reason is a lack of serious political will. Right out of the gate, a new assault weapons ban, which would have reduced the proliferation of military style weapons (some of which were carried by both the Aurora and Newtown gunmen) in American society, was dropped entirely by the Democrats because of their fear that it would be impossible to get it past the resistance of the GOP. While Senate Democrats and some Republicans did put forward a proposal to expand background checks, they still lost the battle in the end to the machinations of the gun lobby.

Perhaps this political reality was inevitable given the extreme partisan divide in our government. Or perhaps it is just the nature of the opposition -- the willful disregard for human life, the blind adherence to a hopelessly outdated Constitutional Amendment, the willingness to profit from violence, and political gamesmanship by the NRA, the gun manufacturers, and the Republican party, have reached such lows that not even the deaths of young children seem to matter to them anymore.

But whatever the cause, the Democrats should have more backbone, and continue the fight to get guns off our streets and stem the tide of senseless violence that has racked our nation over the past year. In the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict, President Obama once again brought up the need for gun control, but sincere as he might be, words are not enough. The President, and the Democratic party, need to follow it up with action. Setbacks may be a part of our political process, but they are not an excuse to do nothing.

Today, the majority of Americans support at least some type of new gun legislation, whether it be an assault weapons ban, stronger background checks, restrictions on irresponsible marketing of guns, stiffer penalties for smuggling of guns across state lines, or keeping firearms out of public places such as schools. With this type of mandate behind them, the Democrats still have a chance of accomplishing something meaningful and at least jumpstarting the process of moving our nation towards a more peaceful and more civilized existence.

Sure, the NRA and gun lovers will kick and scream as they always do, but at some point, America must draw the line against letting those groups jeopardize our safety and take a stand for our right to be free of gun violence. I want to say that again -- our right to be free of gun violence, our right to be able to walk around safely without having to carry an arsenal to protect ourselves, and most of all, our right to life.

So here is my question for Washington: *why have you forgotten about gun control and why is it not at the top of our national agenda?*

SANJAY SANGHOEE is a political and business commentator. He is a banker, has an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is the author of "Killing Wall Street". For more information, please visit www.killingwallstreet.com Reported by Huffington Post 3 hours ago.

Aurora Theater Shooting Survivors Tie the Knot a Year Later

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A young couple who survived the Aurora movie theater shooting turned their worst night into their best day this weekend. Eugene Han and Kirstin Davis tied the knot Saturday, exactly one year after the Colorado massacre that left a dozen people dead and more than 70 injured.

 
 
 
  Reported by ABCNews.com 2 hours ago.
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