Ok. I’ll step in it (please have mercy on me). If a 43 year old confronts a 71 year old after being asked for a perfectly reasonable request to put his F’N cell phone away, why shouldn’t said 71 year old feel threatened with dire physical harm? If the guy wasn’t reasonable when asked, what made the 71 year old think he would be reasonable after standing up and confronting him?
I’m guessing you’ve never read the full account of what happened. I think you’ll change your mind.
There’s a long way to go before you shoot someone in a crowded theatre.
I think you have that backwards. It was the 71 year old who confronted the 43 year old and shot him merely for using his cellphone.
He shot her too, ya know.
A - it wasn’t a perfectly reasonable request the previews hadn’t started yet.
B - telling a busy body to butt out isn’t threat of dire physical harm.
Good thing you were not on the original threads; you would have needed a flame-retardant suit. Let me see if I can summarize:
• The texting was during the previews, not the feature• The texter was texting his babysitter, not making noise with a game
• The theater was a "no guns" zone
• The alleged shooter got up to complain to management; it is believed that at this point, he went to his car to retrieve his gun
• Seating is not assigned; so he and his wife could have moved seats at any time; instead he returned and forced a confrontation
• It was not his place to try to enforce a "no texting" policy
• Texting is not a lethal or dangerous activity; it is merely an annoyance that could have been solved any number of other ways, even assuming the victim would have continued during the feature, which was not an issue as the shooting took place during the previews
• Witnesses did not hear any loud threats or witness any aggression by the victim other than thrown popcorn; but none of them actually claimed to see the moment it was thrown, or that the victim was the one who threw it
• A married woman came forward to say that she had been intimidated by the alleged shooter in the same theater in the previous month when she tried to mind her own business going to the ladies' room
You’re insane!
You think like Nancy Pelousey and Cindy Sheehan.
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A peasant who conceal-carries is required to bravely run away like Sir Robin in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
If said peasant stays and "confronts", like this retired King's Man did, peasant goes to jail, goes directly to jail, does not pass GO.
Take a concealed carry class. Tell us how many times this is DRILLED into your head.
Indeed.
Self-absorbed, easily offended twits demanding the world revolve around them are deeply offended when their selfish behavior is called out. . .
...seven years as a cop...
That explains your inability to assess the situation.
I’m with you. Time to take a stand on this bunch!
+1.