Colorado movie theater owners not responsible for James Holmes’ ‘Dark Knight’ massacre

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The owner of a Colorado movie theater could not have prevented a 2012 shooting that killed 12 people, a jury decided Thursday after victims argued that lax security allowed for the attack.

The six jurors concluded that Cinemark was not liable for the rampage, siding with the nation’s third-largest theater chain in a civil case closely watched by the country’s major theater companies.

They deliberated for about three hours.

Several survivors and families of the dead had sued the suburban Denver theater, saying it lacked armed guards during the crowded midnight premiere of a Batman movie. There also was no silent alarm that would have sounded when James Holmes slipped into an auditorium and started shooting.

The company argued that no security measures would have predicted or stopped the armor-clad Holmes.

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(If they argue that no security measures would stop this, then why do they disarm their patrons? Isn't that a "security measure"? -Ed.)