Posted on 04/05/2013 4:58:10 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
A Democrat running for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s seat in Congress attacked the idea of concealed-carry firearms by citing the victims of the Aurora theater shooting, who could not defend themselves in a gun-free zone.
Robin Kelly, candidate in the IL-02 congressional election, claimed Thursday evening that victims of 2012's Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting failed to "pull out their guns to kill the gentleman that did all the damage that he did."
Kelly, who faces Republican Paul McKinley in the April special election to replace Jackson, was speaking at her own one-person candidate forum, which she had convened rather than attend an NAACP-sponsored candidate debate with her opponent. Kelly made the controversial statement while arguing against conceal and carry rights for the residents of her district and the state of Illinois.
She told the audience, "in the movie [theater], they have conceal and carry, but nobody pulled out their guns to kill the gentleman that did all the damage that he did." [emphasis added]
However, the Cinemark theater where the shooting took place was the only one within 20 minutes of suspect James Holmes' apartment that had a policy banning guns from the premise. Victims and their families are preparing a lawsuit targeting Cinemark for allegedly failing to provide security for its patrons the night of the shooting.
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Ummm... no comment.
“How many freepers that carry concealed do you think would have been armed, even though the movie theater said it was prohibited?”
How many would simply have taken their business elsewhere?
As a dearly departed cop/AF reserve JAG once told me, with reference to the ban on weapons on military installations (don’t GET me started), “I just f’ing carry”. Judged by 12, carried by 6 argument works for me...
Are these people paid to be this stupid?
It takes a special breed and then you have to nurture it.....////
It would depend on if that movie was playing somewhere else. I wouldn’t, I’d do as I pleased.
****I thought the Aurora Theater was a gun free zone???***
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
If you don’t get patted down or go through a metal detector, there are no gun free zones as far as I’m concerned...except of course for those that open-carry.
Seriously? She called the killer a gentleman?
So, Robin Kelly stiffs the NAACP candidate forum to hold her own “one candidate” forum, and the NAACP will likely still back her.
Those are now the qualifications for the job.
If you have Robin Kelly’s number, twiterr, email address, etc, you should probably drop her a “hint”. ;-)
But like I said, her district will likely elect her anyway.
so prohibiting CCW creates liability.
“its a good thing...”
Yes.
But not to the Robin Kelly’s of the world.
“...Victims and their families are preparing a lawsuit targeting Cinemark for allegedly failing to provide security for its patrons the night of the shooting.”
This NEEDS to happen and happen big. Solid pointer to the “no CCW” signs and the liability taken on by any and every facility that posts them!
KYPD
If someone is licensed to carry concealed, and a private business says it is a gun-free zone, what are the legal ramifications to being armed on that business property?
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