While avoiding cable news coverage of the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado, I have followed the events and their aftermath on NPR and on-line. Today, I read an op-ed by movie critic Roger Ebert. I've enjoyed reading Ebert's writings, not just on movies, but on topics at large. I'm sure the NY Times was open to featuring Ebert on this day due to the shooting's Batman connection, though much of Ebert's opinion was related to the insanity that is rampant in America when it comes to both guns and fame. Of heartbreaking note, however, was Ebert's mention of a young woman who had very recently been at the scene of another mass shooting, this time at the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto. Jessica Ghawi, an Aurora resident on vacation, wrote about her experience in Toronto on her blog. Ghawi was at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises and among the dead.
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