hand holding the gun — and nobody notices because they’re too busy staring down at their smart phones and tablet computers. We’re talking about a train crowded with commuters and this guy is waving a gun around but nobody sees him, so engrossed are they in texting, tweeting and playing Angry Birds.
The author is referencing popular pop culture ideas such as tweeting and a famous game, Angry BIrds, and setting his claim that people aren't vigilant of whats happening around.
be true that guns don’t kill people, people kill people
this is a post-shooting quote that many people who are against gun laws use.
Columbine High School shooting 13 years ago. She said she was “trembling.” She’s a mother of three, and she lamented that “now we have to worry about going into a movie theater.”
This is a form of rhetoric, perhaps he is pushing his opinion on gun laws because he could've left out the part that the woman who covered columbine has three children, but he didn't. He wants to spread out a sign that we are entering a new era where people feel unsafe in the outside.
James Holmes – as it likely did for an immigrant who shot and killed 13 others in Binghamton, N.Y., in 2009, or a former student at Northern Illinois University who shot and killed five others in 2008, or the Virginia Tech murderer who killed 32 people and then himself in 2007, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The author is connecting his scenario of the Aurora Colorado shooting to others across the US. To set the tone.
We were coming out of a movie theater. There were four of us. This was Thursday, just about midnight.
The author starts out with a story that connects to the main theme that is hinted of in the tittle.