[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: School Prayer Would Have Prevented Colorado Theater Massacre

Prayer has still not been reinstated in our schools. Therefore, God continues to send gunmen to shoot up our movie theaters.

A man brandishing a gun, an axe and pepper spray has been killed by police after attacking people in a cinema in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. Carrying a rucksack on his chest and wearing a surgical mask, the unnamed man was shot dead as he exchanged fire with officers trying to escape.

The shooting comes about two weeks after a shooting at a cinema in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We really need to ban rucksacks too.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: School Prayer Would Have Prevented Colorado Theater Massacre

Movies today are so foul, perverted, anti-Christian, anti-American, and pro-narcotic that it's a wonder we don't see more of these stories. Frankly, I think people who go to the cinema to watch slime like Pitch Perfect 2 are even sicker than the gunmen!

Last time I went to the movies, I saw Left Behind. A Christian film, but in front of me two men were getting very, very friendly—sharing popcorn, giggling, whispering in one another's ears. I believe I even saw one (he was of slighter build so I guess he was the "bottom") squeeze the other's hand during an especially tense moment. It took all my self control and then some not to open my purse and unleash the wrath of God. I guarantee I was not the only one so righteously tempted.

What I'm saying is, I try to withhold judgment when I hear these stories. It's the compassionate, Christian thing to do. James Holmes might be a bloodthirsty maniac, or he might be a regular guy pushed past the brink by a sick society. Who knows. We all have a little Holmes or Dylann Roof inside us sometimes, and there's nothing embarrassing about that.