James Holmes was in Tucson less than a month after Gabby was shot.

[Ptah]

Was he envious of Loughner's deeds?

Colo. shooting suspect applied to University of Arizona

Shooting suspect James Holmes applied to the University of Arizona last
year and was invited to spend a weekend on campus as part of his bid
to go to graduate school in Tucson.

He was one of a dozen hopefuls from around the country vying to get
into UA’s graduate program in neuroscience for advanced study of the brain and nervous system.

Holmes’ photo appears in a booklet UA produced for the program’s interview
weekend, held Feb. 3 to Feb. 6 in 2011. He is pictured wearing sunglasses
and a dark shirt with a white Nike swoosh emblem at the collar.

The weekend is described on UA’s website as an event for “outstanding neuroscience applicants.”

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/colo-shooting-suspect-applied-to-university-of-arizona/article_1a010332-d2cc-11e1-8297-001a4bcf887a.html
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[longship]

1. Meh?

So what!? He was applying to graduate schools in the western US. What else would a UC neurology honors graduate do?

What the fuck are you implying here? Certainly it is not yet another grand conspiracy!

[Ptah]

2. No grand conspiracy.

Just wondering about the mind that would do this.

[longship]

6. What would you do if you were a U of CA honors graduate?

In neurology, no less. Prominent universities all over the country would be wanting you to apply. They would invite you to tour the campus and court you with interviews with professors.

So, of course, he went to Tucson. That's where U of AZ is. He might have visited another great western US university, U of Washington. Are you really suggesting that this brilliant egghead went to Tucson to collaborate with the dumb, idiot tea- bagger who shot Gabby Giffords? I would like to see the evidence for that.

If not, then precisely what is the purpose of this original post?

Please, explain it to me, because I cannot follow where you are going with this.

[Ptah]

7. I'm not surprised that he applied to the UofA.

I was just wondering if an unbalanced mind might feed off the aftermath of the Tucson shooting.

[longship]

8. Sorry, I didn't take it that way.

Probably neither should you. Life is full of coincidences. It would be very wrong to assign causality to such random coincidences. To do so would be to committing a logical fallacy. It even has a fancy Latin title, Post hoc ergo propter hoc which translates roughly to, after that, therefore because of that. Just because two events happen in sequence doesn't mean that the earlier caused the later. Even when they both have elements similar -- in this case guns, violence, and death -- there is not necessarily a causal link.

In order to establish such a link, it would require data which we just do not have, nor are likely to have. So the only thing one can say is, "Meh! So what.

We may never know why these guys did these things. But it is entirely wrong to connect the two without some evidence to do so. For that reason, Okham's razor slices off your hypothesis as falsified.

Hope you get where I am coming from here.

[Loudly]

3. Maybe not envious. But a serious student of how easy it is.

Here in America. To settle your personal grievances. With full support of access to your means of doing so by the majority of the American public.

Until you yourself or someone close to you gets shot, you will enjoy the indulgence of annihilation or being annihilated as a "freedom."

[Comrade_McKenzie]

4. Apparently, his mother lived there for a period of time.

And he has a brother still living there.

[rufus dog]

5. In his field he would have very few choices in the Western U.S.

UofA, Colorado, University of Washington, would be the top choices, so being in Tucson looking at the UofA is understandable.