BEIJING The Chinese are coming to your local movie theater. With the fanfare from Superman, and toasts of red wine, representatives of Chinese company Wanda signed a deal in Beijing Monday morning to buy AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the USA. http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2012-05-21/china-company-buys-amc-movie-theater-chain/55106114/1
AMC has kinda slunk into a rut, entertainment wise for us...We have one right around the corner from us...It is a nice facility, and I of course ignore their non-compliant signage restricting my ability to carry a firearm inside their facility because of its non-compliance to state law...
We’ve been discussing and arguing about the 30.06 signage for years in some of the other forums I visit on gun issues, and for the most part I try to avoid places where their intent is to create these “gun free zones” that criminals and other malcontents can exploit like what was done in Aurora earlier today...
This news you bring somehow doesn’t surprise me, but it does help me determine where I will be spending my entertainment dollars...And it would most likely not be at AMC unless someone else is paying our way.../sarc
I still believe we should take a long hard look at who advertises at Cinemark theaters, and press them hard to re-evaluate their position and find other places to advertise their goods and services...Most are local companies in that area around the theater anyway, so that kinda makes it easier...
Plus there is a large, local church that has satellite worship services at that same AMC theater...
I just feel that today, a senseless act, as not processed in the correct way by the media, or anyone in politics today and the first knee-jerk reaction was to once again tout the liberal/progressive agenda to take away our right to keep and bear arms as the only solution...