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Cedar Park Dad wrote: I'm glad that you're macho enough to not worry about what looks like a crazy homeless guy walking into a movie theater and finger gunning everyone. I guess the more scaredy cat of us will just have to risk your scorn.

I'm not showing scorn, I'm simply pointing out that people have different levels of fear. Those of you that are arguing that someone is a clear threat or that someone should be arrested for pointing finger guns in a theater have zero room to complain when anti-gunners are afraid of us. Your fear triggers when a guy throws a finger. Theirs triggers when a gun is around. What's the difference? According to you, if someone is afraid, then the "threat" should go to jail.

It's not that I'm macho enough not to be worried when a crazy homeless guy walks into a movie theater pointing his fingers. I probably would be worried if I saw such a thing. I'd probably hit condition orange. But crazy homeless people do weird stuff all the time. Unless he actually does something, I'm not calling the police and hoping he'll be arrested for nothing more than pointing his fingers.

It's a good thing they keep expelling these kids that do finger guns at recess, or that point pop tarts at each other. Those kids should be arrested as well. I mean, we did just have a whole mass shooting in a school thing. We should all be concerned that those kids could follow up their gun fingers with the real thing.

And for sure, if we see someone walking down the street carrying a gun, he should be arrested for scaring people. I mean, gosh, if someone gets scared because they saw someone do something that isn't illegal, then clearly there was a threat. If that guy has a gun, I'd be afraid he might use it, what with all these mass shootings and all.