Rick Perry: Allowing Guns In Movie Theaters Would Prevent Shootings
Source: Huffington Post
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Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) claimed that if people could bring their guns to the movies, they could have prevented the movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, Thursday evening.
"These concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country -- who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms -- to carry them," he told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday. “I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there's as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette."
Such a provision “makes a lot of sense” under the Second Amendment, the 2016 presidential hopeful said.
When Tapper asked if that solution would be more effective than strengthening gun control laws, Perry pushed argued that the problem in Lafayette and the recent shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, is a lack of enforcement.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rick-perry-guns_55b5604de4b0a13f9d18e3eb
I called it...
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will be a thing of the past! 
People can now just wave guns at each other and then?
I'm certain that a gun would have helped considering the shooter was behind all of the victims when the attack began. 
Memory's one of the first three things to go. I forget what the other two are... 
Maybe I was thinking of that genius fiddler who was a member of a 70's group called "Seatrain." Great band!
and declare it the world's largest mad house.
I am not suggesting that the shooting was gang related.
Can you imagine a full dark theater and someone opens fire and in seconds 20 other shooters are returning fire? How many victims are going to be added by the guns of the 20?
With over ten million concealed carry permit holders in the United States, not including those in states like Vermont or Maine that don't require permits...I'm not sure it makes much difference in terms of risk management to prohibit carry in movie theaters. But I can understand the concern. People just have to realize that we pass these folks on the street, in malls, at restaurants, etc. and they rarely cause any problems. I want to be clear though, I am only referring to people who conceal handguns in accordance with state and local laws.
I wouldn't dare suggest that lawful carriers can stop every shooting, they can't. But going by the numbers, I don't think carrying in movie theaters will make anything worse.
Shoot outs in a theater.. yeah that is going to work
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
After LBJ and GWB, we don't need another Texan with terrible ideas in the WH. That goes for Carnival Cruz as well.
Nor was the War on Poverty.
But don't expect another President from the bright red state of Texas to do anything remotely resembling those things in the forseeable future. Today's Texas Republicans would be much more likely to end those kinds of things altogether.
Guns and wars? You bet!
Forgot this: 
But, well, you know someone will have a "but" answer!
We should hand them out on the way in just to make sure everyone has one.
Why wouldn't it - he's got the glasses on!!!!!!!!!! 
simply means allowing guns into movie theatres. Isn't that 2nd Amendment wonderful?!?!
Show your gun at the door, announce that you are a good guy with a gun and get your white hat. That oughta work.
