Marta Segal Block

Writer, Marketing Consultant

My son's fifth birthday party had a Batman theme. He's now 6, the same age as the youngest victim of the shootings at the Batman premiere.

Elaine Lee

Partner at The AudioComics Company, Actor, Playwright, Comic Book Writer

Batman didn't kill those people in Aurora. Comic books don't kill. Neither do movies based on them.

Avika Dua

High school student in California

As a student studying the Constitution who attended a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises myself last Friday, I wanted to look into the role of registered guns in massacres.

Noah Fitzgerel

Senior Class President, Annandale High School

This time, Westboro Baptist Church will be in Aurora, Colorado, protesting the funerals of the 12 innocent Americans killed last week by gunman James Holmes.

Betsy Brown Braun

Child development and behavior specialist, author, wife, mom, granny and friend

How do you explain a senseless massacre in a movie theater to your vulnerable child, whether he or she is 8 or 18?

Chris Kelly

Writer, 'Real Time with Bill Maher'

Twelve people were killed last night, apparently, by a rifle and a handgun and the faulty wiring inside the head of a man named James Holmes. And our response -- America's response -- is going to be nothing.

Lisa Belkin

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, The Huffington Post

There has been much written about how we are smothering our children, and worrying about the wrong dangers, and cocooning them in bubblewrap. And, statistically, that advice is right. But statistics don't mean a thing on days like these.