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Families remember 3 Colo. shooting victims
Theresa Hoover, right, the mother of Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting victim AJ Boik, sits with her father Bill Hoover, left, during AJ Boik's funeral, July 27, 2012, at the Queen of Peace Catholic Church, in Aurora, Colo. / Pool,AP Photo/Denver Post, Joe Amon
(AP) AURORA, Colo. - Colorado's governor and police officers was among more than 1,000 people who gathered to remember a recent high school graduate who died in the theater shootings in Aurora.
Gov. John Hickenlooper and Aurora police officers attended the funeral for Alexander "A.J." Boik, who was to start attending the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
A private memorial was held late Friday for former Air Force linguist Rebecca Wingo, followed by a celebratory public gathering at the Denver bar where she went every week.
The Aurora shooting victims
Friends say Wingo balanced work, school and raising her two daughters.
Meanwhile, Gordon Cowden was being buried in Austin, Texas. A memorial service was held for him Wednesday in Denver.
A memorial fund has been established for his four children at Chase Bank.
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This means more than just buying more video cameras to make a police state. If we value people being free and the true definitions of freedom. Which is more likely going to cause a person to psychologically break - a constrained society or a free one?
So, how free are we as a society? Are you better off now than you were 30 years ago, for example? Don't believe me? Then find some articles and charts - I've posted them many times in the past.
But we are a society that will hawk Bonnie and Clyde's guns, Hitler's car, etc, for monetary gain. As a result, the Colorado shooter's weapons will be sold off as well. It's only a matter of time and he will be given the same disgusting celebrity status as the other trash whose names I reluctantly mentioned.
Sorry to be thoughtful of the larger picture.