SNIP but I carry a pretty nice blade and only sit in the front row at the theatres. if somebody who looks remotely threatening or holding a gun through those doors I'm sprinting strait their direction because i can't escape and can either die in my chair or die trying to resist....
But for all the people who can and do carry, do you believe you would've immediately shot them as they entered the showing room?
Well, there you have it readers. If the movie theater refuses to refund your money for that stale popcorn, better not re-enter the auditorium with a scowl on your face or EMNRambo will plant his "pretty nice blade" in your chest. Even if you're CCing.
I think we've already told him about six times to learn the freakin' law on self-defense.
I wonder why he didn't take a clue from the police: "[Police Capt. Shoemaker] added it's a good thing an off-duty officer wasn't at the theater because it's likely the officer would have engaged the actor. Had the actor not complied, the situation could have turned out much worse." A cop wouldn't start shooting until there was a lack of compliance (which is bad enough in itself. I guess not all police learned their lesson from the dead native American woodcarver a few years ago).
And, too bad EMN can't write clearly. He asks if we "would've immediately shot them as they entered the showing room?" Would have? As they entered? Meaning, the actor did enter the auditorium. But, nowhere in the video clip or the text of the story does it say the actor entered the auditorium. So, how does one reply to a question that posits something occurred when it didn't? And, "them"? Who's "them"? There was
one actor.
Does he really think enough of us are so dumb--or ignorant of the law on self-defense--as to start shooting someone without all the elements of AOJ/I present such that its worth asking that question? Or, is he just projecting?
And, what's up with that "really nice blade" lingo? Oooo. I wonder if he's trying to impress himself by carrying it, or us by telling us about it--in a post in which the niceness of the weapon is irrelevant.
I guess we need to tell him again. "Learn the law on self-defense!" And, start applying it. As in, when you read something like the news story, start looking for the elements that only when all present and combined justify lethal force.
In the meantime, somebody in Washington might wanta check whether there is a constitutional prohibition on the legislature making a law that applies only one person or a group. If not, it might be a good idea to raise the age limit for EMN to carry a gun.
Side Note: And, what's with the repeated references in the story to an active shooter? There was absolutely beyond any shadow of a doubt no shooting, active or otherwise. Oooo. Lets just use the term to really impress everybody. So at what point did the actor turn into an active shooter? With fake guns?
