( Mytheos Holt) -- Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates spoke to the press this evening, the second two press conferences today, discussing new developments that had been percolating in the press since the announcement had been made that a suspect had been apprehended in the Dark Knight Rises shooting case.
Oates was visibly emotionally disturbed throughout, and even appeared close to tears while describing the horror of the experience. Nevertheless, he did let slip a highly disturbing fact about the shooter, James Holmes, and the preparations he had made to carry out this act. And if Oates’ account is correct, then the image that is emerging of Holmes as a cold-blooded, meticulous psychopath looks highly plausible.
According to Oates, Holmes managed to – legally – purchase no less than four different guns at various local Colorado stores, as well as 6000 rounds of ammunition over the internet. Worse, he appears to have done this over the space of 2 months, suggesting this plan was gestating for at least that long, and was not, in fact, the random act of a man who snapped in the moment.
