Aurora theater shooting and is the Batman trilogy cursed?

Today's photos of James Holmes looking dazed in courtroom (ABC)

Heath Ledger as The Joker

This article on Salon.com by Paul Campos, a professor of law at University of Colorado at Boulder, is worth reading. As he says: "a lot of Americans are broke, or angry, or paranoid, or all three, and a lot of these people are heavily armed. It’s not exactly a shock that this combination of factors helps produce 15,000 murders per year".  http://www.salon.com/2012/07/20/why_arent_there_more_auroras/


Talk about the Batman trilogy being cursed has resurfaced following the Colorado massacre when a gunman dressed as the film villain ‘The Joker’ opened fire at a packed US movie theatre, leaving 12 dead and 58 injured. This is the latest tragedy associated with the film after the death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in The Dark Knight. The Australian actor died in January 2008 at the age of 28 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, six months before the film's release. The filming of ‘The Dark Knight’ was also marred by the death of New Zealander Conway Wickliffe, News.com.au reported. The special effects technician was on a camera truck filming a stunt when it crashed into a tree in October 2007. On the set of the latest sequence, The Dark Knight Rises, a stunt double for Anne Hathaway who plays Catwoman, crashed into expensive camera equipment during filming in Pittsburgh. The Batman “curse” also touched The Dark Knight’s leading stars Morgan Freeman and Christian Bale. Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in the film, was seriously injured in a car accident in Mississippi in August 2008. The crash left both Freeman and his passenger badly injured after the car flipped several times and landed in a ditch. Freeman and his wife of 24 years announced they were divorcing soon after the incident. The bad luck also followed Christian Bale, the star of the franchise, who plays Batman. He allegedly assaulted his mother and sister at the Dorchester Hotel before the London premiere. More @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176696/The-Dark-Knight-Heath-Ledgers-death-Morgan-Freemans-accident--How-Batman-franchise-plagued-tragedy.html?ICO=most_read_module