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

[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.