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In reply to the discussion: Retired police captain kills texter in theater during movie trailer [View all]Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)78. bingo....
I kinda feel sorry for the guy that was killed, mostly. Manners would have avoided the situation entirely.
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No I did not miss that part, but I do not see how it is relevant in any way
Bjorn Against
Jan 2014
#13
The fact that he is a retired police officer exempts him from a lot of gun laws.
Glassunion
Jan 2014
#26
Nearly any law that prohibits firearms in anyway exempts law enforcement and the retired.
Glassunion
Jan 2014
#31
Police unions are in the business of defending corrupt cops, suppressing evidence
Dawson Leery
Jan 2014
#109
Can carry is quite different from "should he carry." You guys don't seem to get that.
Hoyt
Jan 2014
#32
Maybe you missed the part where the poster said "responsible" not "average"...
joeybee12
Jan 2014
#43
Remember when many on DU CHEERED WILDLY when that asshole from the NRO threw that lady's phone?
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#7
WTF? Second degree homicide????? What would the asshole have to do to make it first degree? nt
valerief
Jan 2014
#14
Even if it is not the exact law, I believe that anyone carry a gun intends to use it.
madinmaryland
Jan 2014
#36
But you intend to use the weapon and take the law into your own hands, based on what you
madinmaryland
Jan 2014
#74
He intends to interrogate, arrest, set bail, try, incarcerate, and parole someone?
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#123
So if a man attacks me with a machette, I should doubt that he is actually trying to injure ...
spin
Jan 2014
#146
If it is a walker, make sure you blow out its brains, but the noise is likely to attract
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2014
#155
yeah that is a new development since the story originally broke. Seems like intent to me.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2014
#156
I just don't get it. How much premeditation is required to be premeditation? nt
valerief
Jan 2014
#25
So he could have premeditated right before he took out his gun, which was my point.
valerief
Jan 2014
#148
I hope he doesn't get away with it. I'm SOOOOO sick of these twisted bullies. nt
valerief
Jan 2014
#182
I am not a lawyer, but "a plan" and evidence thereof would be my guess.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2014
#30
Good thing the good guy had a gun or that texting might have escalated into something dangerous.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2014
#35
Right. You can't see a likely increase in incidents like that as concealed carry proliferates?
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2014
#75
Over 1,000,000 Florida residents currently have a valid concealed weapons permit. ...
spin
Jan 2014
#185
Reality is "I was pissed and I wasn't gonna let the texting people disobey without consequence. I
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2014
#76
Yeah...Florida. They really do manage to make themselves look pretty bad in the papers, don't
MADem
Jan 2014
#64
Not really. Of course to really understand the incidents such as this that involve ...
spin
Jan 2014
#172
I'm not mollified by those "small" numbers, though--a guy name Zimmerman, who murdered a young teen
MADem
Jan 2014
#173
That whole bore-Gore-wooden thing was rightwing spin. He was didactic and ponderous
MADem
Jan 2014
#181
If it takes the threat of gun violence to ensure they're polite, I suspect they're just assholes.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2014
#79
intriguingly, Heinlein's thesis was that the slow-draws and rude people would be weeded out through
MisterP
Jan 2014
#147
Absolutely, that combativeness, hostility and paranoia, sometimes leading to violence,
enough
Jan 2014
#77
Absolutely no one said anything about this or any shooting being justified.
Cofitachequi
Jan 2014
#164
Is this post an example of those "old fashioned manners" making the world a better place? nt
uppityperson
Jan 2014
#168
Absolutely no one said anything about this or any shooting being justified.
Cofitachequi
Jan 2014
#174
A couple of theaters here in my area have banned the use of cell phones once you enter
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#165
That seems like a reasonable punishment for someone texting in a movie theater.
Vashta Nerada
Jan 2014
#82
I guess what I don't get is how did texting bother him. He wasn't talking on the phone
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#89
I make my kids stop when the previews start. The light is distracting to people and just rude to me.
Logical
Jan 2014
#130
When you put guns over everything, including innocent lives, its either evil or a screw loose
quinnox
Jan 2014
#133
I don't see why texting would be annoying - it's silent, and the light is small?
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#145
Someone carrying a gun subconsciously expects everyone else to be armed also
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#151
Strange. I carry on a regular basis and I don't walk around thinking that everybody ...
spin
Jan 2014
#190
Interesting comment. I do use my subconscious mind in a manner that might surprise you. ...
spin
Jan 2014
#193