Get a babysitter.

The Aurora, Colorado, shooting was horrific, tragic, every possible adjective for nightmarish. And since that hideous event, there have been many, many interviews from victims, relatives of the dead, the police, doctors, and emergency medical workers. Most of them are inspiring or disturbing, but there is one that I find annoying. It seem that Jamie Rohrs and his fiancee, Patrica Legarreta, were among the survivors. This makes them ideal for interviews especially since they attended with Legarreta's 4-year-old daughter, Azariah, and her infant son, Ethan. While the reporters during their many interviews ooh and ah over their dramatic retelling of the horrid event, and express intense sympathy when Patricia bursts into tears, not one of them asks a very important question. Why the hell would you bring a small child and an infant to an after-midnight showing of an ultra-violent movie? In addition, the sound level of these films could damage a young child's hearing for life. Instead they act as if this is a perfectly normal thing to do. This is another example of completely stupid people getting rewarded with  far more than their fifteen minutes of fame when they should be chastised for their completely irresponsible behavior. I wonder what the media would be say if those children were among the victims who died.

Note: Since I wrote this I learned that the youngest person to die in the massacre was a six-year-old girl whose mother is still clinging to life in an Aurora hospital.  Yes, it's sad. But it still would have been avoided if the mother had acted in a reasonable manner rather than taking a child to the midnight show of a violent movie.