So you are not restricting me from protect myself but won't allow me to LEGALLY carry my firearm. How do you suppose I protect myself against this threat, throw popcorn? Is protecting yourself with a firearm the only viable way to do so? No. other options are...Knife, hand to hand, if throwing popcorn works, then yep, etc.
You can't say you are allowing me to protect myself but then take away the only means to do it. See comments above...it's not the only way to protect...just an option.
You are taking the responsability of protecting me by disarming me. Nope, you are entering my premises with knowledge that carrying a firearm is not allowed....doesn't say you can't protect yourself, just not with a firearm.
You said you couldn't have guessed this would have happened but you made no effort as a corp. to prevent or stop it from happening. I don't have to do anything to prevent something I didn't know was a reasonable threat.
Did you hire armed security? Good question...I don't know if they had security there, but even if I did, would they have been trained to handle a devious individual's plot, prolly not...again not a reasonable threat. I don't have a duty to protect your from everything/anything, just those that are reasonable.
Did you put alarms on the exit doors so nobody could come in. As for the theater, don't know. What does this have to do with it? Rumor is he used one, but the alarm did not go off. Most city codes now demand these, so my guess is they were there and potentially disarmed. I have not read anything that states these went of.
No but you did make dam sure I couldn't defend myself. Your policy enabled this to happen, your company has taken 100% of the responsiablility away from me and placed it with you for my safety. My company did no such thing; we did not assume the risk of protecting your from a gunman when there is no reasonable threat to do so. No offense, but no one prevented you from protecting yourself. In fact, if you were an individual that needed to use a firearm for protection and knew the law (because you had a CCW) and knew the premises was posted NO Firearms; I could argue you knew this and should have taken an extra precaution to use other legal viable means to protect you and your family or not remained on the premises. You chose to come on my property with this knowledge.
Reasons your company made this event happen.
a. To cheap to hire security. It is unknown if there were any there.
b. To cheap to alarm the doors. Again, not confirmed or denied; or disarmed by the devious mindless person.
c. Your own views on what rights American should have. Who's rights are greater, the property owners or the carrier? As it stands right now, most courts say the property owners trumps the licensee/invitee. In this case you would be one or the other.
You argument that my company 'made' this happen is at best, as stated before, sensationalism at it's best. Accusing the theater for making this happen insinuates the theater had foreknowledge, a hand in allowing this person to do to this...saying they had knowledge it was going to occur is criminal. There is nothing that states this, in fact, everything states the opposite.
The only reason this event was able to happen boils down to your greed (profits) and personal views. Your company is responsiable even if you haven't forseen this event. Your policies gave it a place and atmospher for it to happens. Good luck at proving that. It's a business's duty to make a profit, if not, well, I'll let you think that one out.
