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A gunman killed 12 people and 59 at a Colorado cinema early Friday morning. Police apprehended the killer and him as James Eagan Holmes, 24, a neuroscience PhD student. He himself with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and fired at at moviegoers attending the midnight premiere of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises”. Holmes had his hair red, just like Batman’s nemesis the Joker, and wore body armour and a gas mask. Many thought he was part of a stunt for the movie screening. Cinemas in New York got police after the shooting to copycat killings. The premiere in Paris was immediately cancelled.

U.S. President Barack Obama has the mourning after the massacre, ordering flags to be lowered to -mast. He said: "There are going to be other days for politics. This, I think, is a day for and reflection." The shooting has once again reignited the on gun control in America. All the weapons used in the killings were bought legally in a gun store. The shooting brings memories of the 1999 Columbine High School murders, just 25km from the cinema, in which 13 people their lives. Tragedies like this are becoming all common but do little to get gun controls enforced. Gun ownership is a in the USA. There are an estimated 192 million firearms in the country.