This has got to be effing obvious by now, but . . .

Let me belabor the obvious, because apparently some of you have missed it. Here is the headline, byline, and first paragraph from the Washington Post online, which is where I get much of my news.

‘Why did he come here?’: Police searching for motive in deadly La. theater shooting

            By Ashley Cusick, Sarah Kaplan and J. Freedom du Lac July 24 at 4:03 PM 

LAFAYETTE, La. — A lone gunman, described by police as an out-of-state “drifter” and by a family friend as a troubled man suffering from worsening mental illness, silently stood up in a darkened movie theater here and opened fire Thursday night, killing at least two people and injuring nine others before killing himself, authorities said. (Click here for the complete story.)

Let’s subtract one element from the story.

LAFAYETTE, La. – One man without a gun, an out-of-state “drifter” according to police and a troubled man suffering from mental illness according to a family friend, stood up in a darkened movie theater here.

Not sufficiently clear, Wayne? - then: 
               and killed no one, injured no one, not a single one.