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In reply to the discussion: Retired police captain kills texter in theater during movie trailer [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)177. Someone sending a text before the movie starts wouldn't bother me.
They were running the coming attractions--who cares about those?
If there was a lot of beeping and blooping while the actual film was playing, that is when you lean over and say "Please do that in the lobby; you're disturbing those of us watching the film."
If the guy doesn't respond, go get the manager and tell him the guy is filming the movie with his iPhone, and he'll be thrown out on his ass. Problem solved.
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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