Maryland cops arrest second alleged Batman shooting copycat

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Maryland cops have arrested a second man in as many weeks who threatened to carry out an Aurora, Colo.,-style mass shooting, they said.

But although both men indicated they planned to carry out mass shootings — apparently imitating last month’s Colorado incident where James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” — police say they can’t charge either man with serious offenses simply because they never carried them out.

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