Gunfire during Dark Night Rises

[sjfcontrol]

I'm almost hesitant to bring this up (because it DOES sound a little creepy). Yesterday a guy called into a local radio show (Mar Davis) and said (among other things) "my wife won't give me crap about carrying at the movie theater anymore." I remembered my wife and I settled that one a couple of weeks after I got my CHL. I had forgotten our conversation until I herd him say that on the radio.

I told her about the comment, and reminded her of our conversation when we got home. It went something lie this:
Did you bring your gun HERE? (in the movie theatre)
Yeah
Do they allow them here?
They didn't have a sign up, so I'm OK.
She didn't ask WHY, but it did get me thinking, and I said
You know, if I was an idiot looking to cause a problem, this would be an easy target. Dark, lots of people close together, and so totally engrossed with what's on the screen that they wouldn't figure out what was going on until a lot of damage was done.
She remembered the conversation, and then said "that's kinda creepy"

I'm going to assume she meant the apparent prescience, and not my thought pattern...

Hmmm, I think we need to keep a close eye on you!

[ScooterSissy]

I'm almost hesitant to bring this up (because it DOES sound a little creepy). Yesterday a guy called into a local radio show (Mar Davis) and said (among other things) "my wife won't give me crap about carrying at the movie theater anymore." I remembered my wife and I settled that one a couple of weeks after I got my CHL. I had forgotten our conversation until I herd him say that on the radio.

I told her about the comment, and reminded her of our conversation when we got home. It went something lie this:
Did you bring your gun HERE? (in the movie theatre)
Yeah
Do they allow them here?
They didn't have a sign up, so I'm OK.
She didn't ask WHY, but it did get me thinking, and I said
You know, if I was an idiot looking to cause a problem, this would be an easy target. Dark, lots of people close together, and so totally engrossed with what's on the screen that they wouldn't figure out what was going on until a lot of damage was done.
She remembered the conversation, and then said "that's kinda creepy"

I'm going to assume she meant the apparent prescience, and not my thought pattern...

Hmmm, I think we need to keep a close eye on you!

I like to think of it as "situational awareness".

[Songbird]

Someone needs to follow the money. Where did this unemployed kid get the funds to purchase multiple weapons, ammo, body armor, riot helmit, gas mask, neck and groin protector, and sophisticated bomb making materials?

Mommy and Daddy?

[Heartland Patriot]

Someone needs to follow the money. Where did this unemployed kid get the funds to purchase multiple weapons, ammo, body armor, riot helmit, gas mask, neck and groin protector, and sophisticated bomb making materials?

I did a quick mental tally...and yes, we are talking several thousand dollars all total. I've made my firearms collection up over a period of time, and had to sell a couple of things that I had for a while just to make some of the purchases...because I don't have several grand to throw at it all at once. Good question...but will we ever get an answer?

[RHenriksen]

Student loans?

[McKnife]

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this whole incident was staged.

I wonder how many attitudes this will change towards the UN small arms treaty.

Coincidence?

Maybe the guy is just plain evil. Maybe it's bath salts.

Maybe I'm crazy.

[teri]

Student loans?

I was thinking the same thing.

[The Annoyed Man]

Student loans?

I walked through the TV room a couple of days ago, and my wife was watching Judge Judy. The plaintif was demanding repayment repair bills to a car borrowed and wrecked by the defendant—a former boyfriend. Judge Judy asked her how she paid for the car when she bought it, since she didn't have a job at the time, probably assuming that the former boyfriend had helped her to pay for it.

"Student loan," was her answer.

People use student loans for all kinds of things besides school. A former girlfriend of mine qualified for student loans when she was a student at UC Santa Barbara. Every year, she would apply for and receive loans (she was also on an athletic scholarship). She would take the money and invest it in a short term CD which paid more interest than the loan was pegged at. Each semester she made a few hundred bucks that way. At the end of the semester, she'd close the CD when it had reached maturity, pay off the loan, and pocket the difference.

[RSJ]

No doubt student loans are often misused. Just to be clear, a student can only borrow (federal loans) the cost of tuition (check paid directly to the university, not student) plus the school's estimate of cost of living.

[Right2Carry]

Someone needs to follow the money. Where did this unemployed kid get the funds to purchase multiple weapons, ammo, body armor, riot helmit, gas mask, neck and groin protector, and sophisticated bomb making materials?

I did a quick mental tally...and yes, we are talking several thousand dollars all total. I've made my firearms collection up over a period of time, and had to sell a couple of things that I had for a while just to make some of the purchases...because I don't have several grand to throw at it all at once. Good question...but will we ever get an answer?

I forgot to mention the gas canisters and smoke canisters.

[alvins]

if people want to buy things with their student loans its only going to hurt them in the long run. you still have to pay them off so if you use it for stupid stuff your only hurting yourself.

[Scott in Houston]

Um... Credit cards??? It's not like you have to pay cash and he obviously didn't expect to ever have to pay them off.

[RSJ]

if people want to buy things with their student loans its only going to hurt them in the long run. you still have to pay them off so if you use it for stupid stuff your only hurting yourself.

Grad loans are horrible. 6.8% interest for the first $20,500 then 7.8% interest for anything over.

[RSJ]

MSNBC reported the shotgun was "sawed off"

[Jim Beaux]

Ive been patiently waiting and yet no one has stated the obvious; this slaughter is not about access to guns, it's about the influence of violent video games and movies on easily influenced young kids. Due to the media bombardment, our society has become indifferent to commitment to marriage, illegitimate children, same sex pairings, character, drugs, and work ethics.

Have any of you seen some of the trash being distributed? Life has no sanctity. Ive read that this particular movie involves a lot of extraordinary sadistic and violent acts. I understand this movie has a scene in which a victim has a bomb sewn inside him & I also understand that one of the latest James Bond movies shows the hero stuffing a bomb in the villain's rear end before setting it off.

The gun is only the tool, the "can opener" if you will. The honest questions are, just what motivates this sort of violence and just what reduces the regard for humanity & life?

Eating with a Spoon makes me Fat.
Buying Firearms makes me dangerous.
Being ex-Military, and SPEC-0 at that, makes me incredibly dangrous.
Buying high-cap "clips" means I want to kill people.

You get where I am going with this? Batman, or any other movie didnt make this guy do anything. All violent movies/etc. did, if anything at all, was give a theme to whatever motive he already had. This guy wanted to kill people and make a mess of things anyway, Batman just provided him a theme-the Joker.

I can say that ...... I want to drink beer. Coors Light commercials give me a theme to go by... and I choose Coors Light.

People are responsible for their own actions, buddy. The media, movies, artists, songs, parents, and teachers are not responsible for other people's evil actions.

I suggest you re-read my post using both eyes, friend.

I stated:

The gun is only the tool, the "can opener" if you will. The honest questions are, just what motivates this sort of violence and just what reduces the regard for humanity & life?