No Medical Bills for Some Colo. Shooting Victims: Should Warner Brothers Pick Up the Whole Tab?

They are being very generous already...too bad the one responsible doesn't have to pay

They had NOTHING to do with it so why should they ? What they gave was very generous. I think the theater chain would be well advised to make a nice donation also. If anybody could be found at fault it would be them for their lax security. But you can't anticipate everything, their security is geared for people sneaking in to see a movie for free, not a crazed gunman out to kill a bunch of people.

It wasn't their fault really, but it would be very nice considering they probably have the money

You are dead wrong! WB doesn't have the money for this charity. Any money spent on these types of activities is depriving the ownership of their profits. A business's first and ONLY obligation is to provide a profit to its owners. Any time a company's management engages in activities that eat into the owners profits is a violation of the trust the owners have put into their management team. If the management of WB wants to engage in this type of largess, it should get the permission of the ownership first!

Hell no they shouldn't but they did because they are human and wanted to help.
It is hard to believe that 76 idiots said that the should have to pay.

It is time for the movie industry to step up and take responsibility for the consequences of putting out so many movies with so much sex and violence in them. Look at that sicko Tarantino. No one in movie history LOVES to depict women being victimized like he does, and I find that very SICK. Hedonistic individuals refuse to admit it but all of this garbage has an effect on our young people and their thought process.

Free speech is free speech. This is a cultural issue. If people are taught that this sort of thing is bad and has a negative impact then when movies like that come out, they will bomb because no one will buy tickets. Instead we have fed govt in charge of schools, determining curriculum based on lobbyists so now we have sick depraved homosexual deviants running everything and forcing it down our throats. But we can't force anyone to do anything. A utopia is impossible and the constitution is non-negotiable.

Why should the studio have to pay for someone else's insanity? Was it them who caused this guy to go on a rampage? No. Did this guy work for them? No. Would this man likely have done this whether or not -Batman- existed? Probably yes.

On the other hand, it would be nice of them to pick up the medical bills, and is a good reason of why corporations need to change.

The film studio does not have to pay a dime. Let the insurance companies of the victims pay what their policies require them to pay, and then let the film sudio contribute anything they want over the $2 million. The $2 million was a nice gesture, but shouldn't the movie theater have some type of insurance to help pay for medical bills as well.

This is very much a catch-22 situation. Now, they've already stated they'll be making this massive contribution, but that gets freaky from a legal standpoint. It's like when you get in a car accident and if you offer assistance or apologize, that could be construed as admitting fault, and that opens the door for lawsuits. They've already begun. One person is suing the theatre chain and Warner Brothers. Of course, if they didn't do anything, that would seem incredibly dickish. I'm glad they are giving money, but they should not have to. This film, or any other film for that matter, caused this.

Which is to say they shouldn't feel obligated to, but it's a nice publicity stunt for them.

Ii don't believe its a "stunt", but then that's my opinion, as I respect yours.

No! WTF for?

You know ever since 9/11 people have been sending money to victims and families of victims. Even the government has gotten in on it. And it's on our local news all the time. Some kid doing 95 over a railroad track, lost control and the driver and four passengers died. But you can send donations to the families at ...

I don't get it. Does a bucket of money make it better for someone, somehow?

And in this case, Warner Bros should fork over some money? That's sick! How about the people that made the seats in the theater? Let's not forget the newspaper that ran the advertisements for the film.

Warner Bros had nothing to do the massacre. There is no way the families could be made whole in this horrific situation, but even if there WERE a way, it's not Warner Bros responsibility to make it happen.

The killers family should pay. You know they new he was crazy and they did nothing. Then the idiot's who gave him the guns they should pay to. I would not have sold that guy any gun personally.

YOu would have been sued for denying him his right to own a weapon.

His background check showed NOTHING amiss, he was legally able to procure weapons, BUT he would have gotten them illegally if not.

So, this should wash back to his shrink. The person he mailed a letter to, and the school person he mailed a manifesto to. LET THEM, who refused to hot list him, bear some grief.

His psychologist should have a code that's sent to police for background checks showing he is crazy. Then I could refuse sale to him and not be sued. If good gun control laws where passed and followed, buying illegal guns would be much more difficult. If you think everyone needs guns then look at countrys with no gun laws. They are in caos.

Well, we don't need more laws. We need more FOLLOWSHIP of existing law and a tightening down on the effing crazy people.

If a person is being treated, by a shrink, they should not have a gun IF, only IF they have expressed violent fantasies or have bi polar, schizophrenia. Period.

Other than that, let us all own a weapon of our choice, and there would be less crime, less criminals.

Oh please how convenient this "manifesto" shows up. This whole thing stinks of false flag attack. Quit believeing everything the news tells you

I agree, it probably IS a false flag probably fully assisted by the govt.

No, the NRA should pay for the victims

They had NOTHING to do with this.

People like this get weapons no matter HOW good the background check.

Illegal guns kill far more people than legal weapons.

From Jan1 to June 16, 2012 228 citizens were murdered in Chicago, illegal weapons.

So, until mental health laws allow shrinks to Hot List the ones who show a propensity to violence-it won't stop.

Banning guns won't stop it.

Criminals and degenerates will ALWAYS get guns.

Not when you line up and shoot anyone found with illegal weapons. No its not a slippery sloap people people don't need illegal guns period.

When the marxists take over we will most definately be needing all firepower available.

I've seen the right wing neo Nazi agenda at work and wow not good. Maybe I do need some guns, how else will I protect myself from the neo Nazi, redneck and self righteous. You call me a Marxist, please not in the life time. I love freedom and liberty from tyrannical control freak conservatives.

Funny since it is the left liberals who want to strip our gun rights, it is the left liberals who want to remove Chick Fil A's right to open restaurants, it is the left liberals forcing gay marriage thru court order, it is the left liberals who are intolerant of any speech they do not agree with and it is the left who panders to criminals.

WE all do follow them, GRIEF, it is the ILLEGAL guns causing the largest share of death and destruction.

TOO many homeowners and business owners have STOPPED a crime with their legally owned guns for you all to try to strip them.


Ga after the CRIMINALS with ILLEGAL guns.

That is what we are trying to do. The nra doesn't want that to happen. They like guns in criminals hands so to keep liberals pissed off and people dieing.

No, the NRA supports legal, responsible gun ownership.

They know the dangers criminals with guns possess. You don't have to like the NRA, but at least they fight for us to keep our rights.

You don't have to like the messenger, to be happy about the message.

The nra forces people into believing that liberals like me want to strip your gun rights away. With lies and false advertising. We don't want to take the guns away from law abbiding people, hell I like target practice. Guns don't kill people crazy drunk rednecks kill people.

The president and congress already have me convinced that liberals like you want to take my guns away. I don't even read NRA material, I watch CNN and NBC, I HEAR what the politicos are saying-EASY to understand english. They want our guns,.

I would like to see any legitimate document from Obama or or even the congress that's republican controlled. A document showing that we want all guns from law abbiding citizens stripped or taken away. You can't because it doesn't exist. I may not like people carrying guns around but I like the right to own one if I follow the rules.

Listen to their WORDS when they speak.

That says it all. And the arms treaty that Hillary nearly signed would allow the UN to have authority OVER US constitutional law and register all guns, gun owners, and require several styles of legally owned weapons to be confiscated.

Sorry that sounds like BS propaganda from the drive by neocon press.

This country had great mental health laws and help for the mentally diseased people. But in the eighties Reagan changed all that...he emptied out most all mental hospitals and since then they've had no place to, unless of course they're rich. Combine that with the NRA consistently reducing background checks the result will be more fun violence. Yes the NRA is responsible, simply for making it easier to own guns and stockpile like CO shooter did.

We have a RIGHT to bear arms. a RIGHT.


Mental health is a vast area of people blaming their BS on others.

Who said you can't bear arms? OK, I get it, hate has no bounds & now it's the mentally ill.

Bitch at the lawyers-THEY fixed it so that people who commit crimes get AWAY with it by claiming insanity.

Maybe if the truly mentally ill got treated and the NOT mentally ill got penalized FULLY for their crimes, things would be more fair and less horrid.

Like the colorado shooter-he obviously is not crazy, he meticulously planned, and carried out a mass homicide, not crazy. BUT his lawyers will get him a padded cell.

I guess you're saying that the "truly mentally ill" should just clear their heads, problem solve, let deductive reasoning kick in to realize they need to get their act together and use their brain to become fully aware of their illness and seek medical care...Are you nuts????? Anyone who commits an act that will get them executed or locked up for life is mentally ill. I guess the mentally ill cant see that.

The truly mentally ill should be on treatment meds under a Dr's care and if they are violent-locked in padded cells. The "after the fact" crazies SHOULD be forced to man up and take their punishment.