Key point 6 (OK, I'm doing them out of order) says this:
Holmes booby trapped apartment - How are we to believe that a 24 yr old, former jewish camp counselor, gaming nerd, science rock star, Neuroscience PHD had the skill set to set up a system of explosive devices and booby traps that would have the FBI bewildered for almost two days?? How are we to believe that ?? There is no way this maze of death was the work of one neuroscience student. It's BS.
No, it's not bullshit. If the poster of this thought for a few seconds he'd have realised the crass stupidity of what he was saying. In the first sentence he establishes that James Holmes was a "science rock star" and a "neuroscience PhD" student but claims that he didn't have enough brains to improvise an explosive device. As any ill-educated Taliban fighter could tell you, making IEDs is not that complicated.
As a 24-year-old "gaming nerd" it's pretty safe to assume he knows how to Google something like "How do I make a bomb?" to get some instructions. Copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook are up there somewhere. Even the murderous clowns who bombed the Boston Marathon managed to make devices that actually exploded.
The FBI (if it was the FBI rather than the ATF) was dead right to take two days getting into the apartment. What was the rush, for fuck's sake? You take your time. You drill holes and insert fiber-optic cameras. You use the resulting photos and architect's plans to figure out how the booby-trap is rigged and how it needs to be made safe. That's not being "bewildered", that's being smart. And staying alive.
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