Posted on 07/20/2012 9:39:34 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
True, but it's a CONCEALED carry state; right?
Don't advertise you are carrying - problem solved.
They could toss you off their property, but what other LEGAL things could they do to you?
The interviews with audience members show them to be incurably inarticulate.
In a darkened theater, do you seriously think it’s a good idea to pull a gun and start shooting in a panic of hundreds of people?
From the amount of junk grabbing going on in here, I have a hunch a few in here wish they could have been there to do a Rambo imitation.
It is stated that the perp was wearing full body armor - head to toe - if you happened to have a Desert Eagle .50 somehow concealed, then you may have been able to get his attention. Anything less would have not stopped him, IMHO. This lunatic set up a kill box, executed his plan, and walked out of the theater.
Perhaps someone could have rushed him during a magazine change...but with the smoke and the bodies on the floor and the aisles crowded with people... A professional may have been able to take him down, if he was close enough - <10 feet. Still, there are just some times when there is no way to win.
In a darkened theater, do you seriously think it’s a good idea to pull a gun and start shooting in a panic of hundreds of people?
1) Darkened theater.
2) Tear gas/smoke grenades going off.
3) Sounds like the shooter was wearing body armor.
Yeah,,,real smart to open fire at muzzle flashes and gun down God only knows how many more people in the process.
I'd add:
"And driven by a small group of extremely hard core, aggressive, and "never give up" Marxist atheist revolutionaries allied with black racists. Muslims and perverts."
“...Don’t advertise you are carrying - problem solved....”
I absolutely, completely agree with you.
And I do carry. Always, everywhere. Regardless.
My life means more to me than some stupid laws.
I think your addition rounds it out. I guess you could say in general “enemies who wish to harm us” and that would include everything from Iranian zealots and environmentalists to the President of the United States.
My first guess as well. Seems like every time something like this happens, a thread is posted and within the first five replies, "I'm guessing he's a Muslim! " "He's OWS!" "He voted for Obama!"
Sometimes it isn't about politics. Sometimes people are just crazy.
Reminds me of Perry Mason:
Mason to witness: "Would this have any relationship to your prior convictions of domestic assault and bigamy?"
Hamilton Burger: "Objection, your honor!"
Mason: "I withdraw the question."
They’re pros at the smear.
By the way - how did they actually stop this guy? Did he just surrender? Did he try to off himself and they tackled him before he could?
Sounds like the police are being manipulated. He doesn’t run. Tells them his apartment is snagged. Another person opened the door for him to get in. .......the next shoe to drop.
Good point. It gets ugly when you put James Holmes in Zabasearch and select ONLY the state of Colorado. Some of those are multiple entries but when you look at the middle initials, the list pretty much has the entire alphabet covered at least once.
No worries, FRiend, I do not take that as a slap-down.
My own response to that situation would have depended on who I was with, proximity to shooter, and tools on hand.
The whole thing happened so quickly and was so chaotic.
But, yes, we are on the same team. If my body was a shield/distraction so someone could get close enough to neutralize the threat, then so be it. And yes, my knife would be trying to find his carotid, or better yet, the base of his skull so I wouldn’t have to wait for him to bleed out.
Crazy world.
The interviews with audience members show them to be incurably inarticulate.
But they now have their 5 minutes of fame in front of the cameras.
PERIOD? A big STOP on the talking about the obvious. If you can't handle any more info - go find out more about your TV stars.
HOW right you are!
I always know I’m on the right side, when you’re on the other side.
Even if I don't know the complete story, I take the opposite of nappy because I know I will be right. He's so predictable wrong.
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