Then I can expect thousands of shootings today in my state alone?
Except the guy in question was an ex-cop - you know, one of the only kind of guys liberals think should be allowed to have guns.
Well, it does prove one guy is. But this article exposes failure of this author’s intellectual approach to thisliberal group think: He is lumping people into groups rather than focusing on the individual.
I see it in people’s perspective on auto accidents. If a car gets in an accident people blame it on the driver(stupid women drivers or asian drivers, or teenagers, etc.)But when a truck or motorcycle causes an accident they tend to say, “stupid truck drivers” or “stupid motorcyclists”.
One could just as easily say that retired cops have a superiority complex and that was the problem here.
That said, an armed society is a polite society. I wonder if the deceased would have acted the way he did if the cop had been open carrying from the git go.
Nope. Just proves you can’t trust cops. They have this “eff all you peasants” attitude that makes them dangerous.
With almost as many guns as there are people we see thousands of people shot in each theater each showing.
No, it proves that a cop went nuts.
It wasn’t a “guy” - it was an ex-cop with an elitist sense of authority.
Then comparable stats need to be thrown back in their face. If one person out of millions misuses food stamps, cancel all food stamps. If one person abuses Medicaid, it’s a program that must be stopped. If one illegal commits a crime, shouldn’t we deport all illegals?
BTW, not that this justifies the shooting, but something tells me the deceaced was a royal prick. I’ve come across that sort of person more than once. It’s slightly skewing my attitude about this thing.
I know that if even a total jerk asked me to stop texting in a theater I’d stop doing it. I might grumble to myself but the Bible pretty clearly teaches me how to deal with such situations.
Yes, an example of one is always good for coming to a universal conclusion.
I marvel at the lack of logic that leftist suffer under. Here the writer tries to bolster his position by citing the background of the shooter to maintain that a gun, no matter who carries it, is going to drive the wearer to kill someone. By raising this fallacious argument, he suggests that trained law enforcement should all be disarmed since that dastardly gun on their hip is going to overpower their good sense and cause them to illegally kill someone. Logic says that people, not guns kill people and there is always going to a bad apple in any barrel.
Using their own logic....
Only cops should have guns. And Guns should not be in movie theaters. Therefore, cops should not be allowed to go to the movies.
It could be said that ex over trained swat type thug cops with guns kill people.
But since many other types of people own guns and do not kill people the problem is the ex over trained swat type thug cop and not the fire arm that is the problem.
Maybe it proves that cops and ex-cops are primed to shoot - and thus shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns, like in jolly olde England...
The urban media finds the words man and men icky. The word guy takes the edge off. It's part of the emasculation that occurs in high density urban areas. City life is for women and fags hoping to meet a rich prince "guy" and live happily ever after. And we are hoping they never leave their sewered castle.
“Expected.”
Yep, and oh so predictable. Amazing how this “journalist” ignores the thousands of justified uses by CCW holders, versus the minuscule number of misuses. Beyond that, this shooter was an ex-cop who could probably carry in a lot of states that don’t issue CCW permits to most folk.
I hope the shooter in this case gets what he deserves, but this incident does nothing to invalidate concealed carry as a desirable thing in general.
I wondered if the shooter was a registered Democrat or not. No one has said. Since its been not reported I am going out on a limb and state he’s a registered Democrat.
I think what it proves is that ex cops with a bad attitude are primed to use their guns. The worst nightmare of regular folks who CC is that they will have to shoot someone.
Sometimes it’s A-holes with chips on their shoulders that kill people.