Man pulls gun in fight over boy kicking back of chair at Kentucky theater
Source: Cleveland.com
PADUCAH, Kentucky A fight that started over a young boy kicking the back of a chair in a movie theater resulted in a man pulling a gun and threatening the boy's father, reports say.
Now police are seeking charges against the man with the gun, westkentuckystar.com reports.
Police responded to Cinemark Theater on Saturday morning during a showing of "Star Trek Beyond", kfvs12.com reports. Police say a man and his son were sitting in the theater and the boy was kicking the back of the seat of a man in front of him.
Reports say the man got up and cursed the boy, leading to a fight between him and the boy's father.
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msongs
(67,465 posts)sakabatou
(42,189 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)way more guns than people.
if chair kicker daddy didnt see it coming,
I wonder what was he doing in McCracken county?
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Why should anyone be self-disciplined, civilized when he/she can go berserk, instead?
Why bother? Having a gun tells you you're O.K. all the time, and everyone who hacks you off is not.
How elegant. A new country of coast to coast bullying assholes.
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)Welcome to the "an armed society is a polite society". Not.
dhill926
(16,377 posts)an ominous development for our society...
billh58
(6,635 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Intimidation of spouses/family, road rage, flashing/pulling a gun because you fear someone walking down the street, get off my lawn, and worse.
In fact, some of those cases of intimidation, get counted as "defensive gun use" stats gunners like to cite. To gun fanciers, george zimmerman used his gun defensively when he stalked, intimidated and murdered Trayvon Martin.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Add guns to the mix and bad outcomes are inevitable.
Guns do not make anyone safer. They make themselves and everyone around them less safe.
Orrex
(63,247 posts)So easily distinguished from a bad guy with a gun.
IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)A heavily armed society is a polite society. you know, like Afghanistan or Somalia. Unlike those impolite bastards suffering under the jackboots of tyranny in Australia or Ireland. The man with the gun was being repressed by the boy so he fought for his freedom.
christx30
(6,241 posts)Dad does a completely justified pull of his weapon in self defense. First idiot now is feels threatened, and opens fire. Boy is now an orphan.
A heavily armed society is a bloody society.
eppur_se_muova
(36,309 posts)Vinca
(50,322 posts)and it's probably a good thing I'm anti-gun. Strangulation did cross my mind, though. Kidding, of course, but if you allow guns everywhere except where the politicians work, this is what happens.
Warpy
(111,407 posts)who wouldn't tell the brat to knock it off should be considered at fault in a case like this. It would have been justifiable homicide, although I'd hope a gun in a crowded theater wouldn't be involved.
The problem with toting a gun everywhere is the old adage, "if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." A lot of people out there need to lose their hammers and expand their tool belt to include starting out with nonviolent means.
It would also help if theaters ejected undisciplined brats, especially in crowded first run movies everybody wants to see.
Are you seriously saying it would have been justified for the ammosexual to shoot a kid because he was kicking his chair? because that's what this sentence seems to be saying:
It would have been justifiable homicide, although I'd hope a gun in a crowded theater wouldn't be involved
How about the asshole getting up and changing seats?
Warpy
(111,407 posts)Oh, YOU did.
I understand the anger at doting parents of undisciplined brats. I don't understand gun waving in a crowded theater, at all.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I need to copy your own words back to you?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"It would also help if theaters ejected undisciplined brats..."
It may help even more if the immature mind realize that children are in fact, merely children, and making a conscious choice to visit a public venue which allows children often requires more tolerance than the undisciplined, self-serving "adult" may find palatable.
Seems to me that if one allows themselves a righteous rage or impassioned fury simply from a child kicking a chair, then the problem lies with them for acting a child, rather than the child acting a child.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Seriously, I don't understand the attitude of adults insulting children and acting out against them. If they can't control themselves, why do they expect kids to be able to.
Warpy
(111,407 posts)through maddening behaviors like chair kicking. Parents of children who annoy other people who tell them about it have a duty to tell the kid to stop the behavior. A movie theater is not Chuck E Cheese and appropriate behavior needs to be taught.
Otherwise, you end up with Donald Trump.
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Paladin
(28,280 posts)Do me a favor and stay out of movie theaters in my community.
reddread
(6,896 posts)Response to Paladin (Reply #15)
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Paladin
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Paladin
(28,280 posts)StrictlyRockers
(3,858 posts)Nice attitude.
Paladin
(28,280 posts)I've been a gun owner for more than 50 years. Not a single negative incident with them in all that time. You see, I'm one of those weird-o gun owners: I'm a lifelong Democrat, and I favor rigorous controls on the ownership and use of firearms---pulling out a pistol and aiming it at an unruly kid in a movie theater ought to end your access to anything more lethal than a Q-Tip, as far as I'm concerned.
StrictlyRockers
(3,858 posts)And if you check, unless I am mistaken, I was not responding to you. I can't be sure since I blocked that newbie kid who thinks it's fine to pull out a gun in a crowded theater as long as you don't shoot anyone.
Paladin
(28,280 posts)No problem, I know such things happen; I've been guilty of it, myself. And I hope that gun owners such as myself aren't "very, very rare."
Thanks...
Paladin
(28,280 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Skittles
(153,254 posts)Chemisse
(30,820 posts)What about moving to a different seat?
How about turning around and glaring at the kid and his dad? Maybe even make a rude comment.
Pulling a gun should not be among your tools for dealing with minor annoyances.
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Aristus
(66,487 posts)Paladin
(28,280 posts)And you seem OK with that. How about talking to the kid's parents? How about contacting theater management? Life in NRA-Land........
StrictlyRockers
(3,858 posts)Welcome to DU and Good bye, sir.
trueblue2007
(17,243 posts)i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT and he NEVER has the right to own a gun again!! Violent sociopath!!
and I AM BLOCKING YOU TOO for making an ignorant statement.
GUNS AND STUPID PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)He ruined the movie for everyone in the theater also.
You seem to be saying that so long as you don't shoot someone, threatening a parent and child with a gun is mature behavior for the crime of having your seatback kicked. That is quite the attitude.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Some other armed person might have decided that this person was a mass shooter who was going to start shooting and decided to take him out first. Others may have thought that this second person was a shooter, etc., etc. Pretty soon a movie theater becomes the OK corral.
Warpy
(111,407 posts)Their child's annoying behavior is cute only to blood relatives. Everybody else is going to think their kid is an undisciplined brat.
bekkilyn
(454 posts)Seriously, why did the guy not turn around and try asking the boy/father to stop *politely* as a *first* solution? I saw nothing in the article that stated he had asked and been ignored. The fact that the guy was so *immediately* frustrated that the very first thing he does is pull a gun on a child (yes, it says father but it may as well have been both of them) says a lot.
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)You just don't know when some nut job with a gun is going to go off on something you did or said.
Initech
(100,118 posts)maxsolomon
(33,440 posts)The cause of, and solution to, all America's problems!
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)trueblue2007
(17,243 posts)my nephew acted like this sometimes when he was little. i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT and he NEVER has the right to own a gun again!! Violent sociopath!!
molova
(543 posts)are wreaking havoc everywhere.
tawadi
(2,110 posts)Understatement.