Topic: dark knight shooting

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Madonna has sparked controversy with violent imagery on her European tour (Reuters)

Nazis, breasts, guns, tears

Laura Barcella
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-164545p1.html'>Olga Miltsova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

NRA's phony gun control

Alan Berlow
James Holmes' photo from his Adult Friend Finder profile.

Hold the Reddit hype

Michael Barthel
Sean Penn in "Gangster Squad"

Thugs shoot theater. Too soon?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A group of friends with various connections to the deceased and wounded gather at a prayer vigil outside the Aurora Municipal Center in Aurora, Colo.,(AP/Barry Gutierrez) (Associated Press)

Muzzled by a disaster

David Sirota
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-61025p1.html'>robcocquyt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

A lobby for criminals

Alan Berlow
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Gun control support slim

David Espo
James Holmes, 24, is seen in this undated handout picture released by The University of Colorado July 20, 2012. (Reuters)

Deadly deja vu

Roseanna Ander, Jens Ludwig

We've made ourselves monsters

Roxane Gay
Police are pictured outside of a movie theatre where as many as 12 people were killed in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) (Ed Andrieski)

"We just ran for it"

Andrew Leonard

Is Batman to blame?

Andrew O'Hehir
Eyewitness Chandler Brannon, 25, sits outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning after a shooting at a movie theater showing the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez) (AP/Barry Gutierrez)

We shouldn't be surprised

Paul Campos
Suspected shooter James Holmes Via Huffington Post

Colorado shooting liveblog

Salon Staff