Second Dark Knight Rises killing spree possibly stopped in Ohio

Not seen a thread on this yet....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9460509/Ohio-man-arrested-with-gun-during-screening-of-The-Dark-Knight-Rises.html


The guy says he was carrying the gun for protection. Sounds familiar.

Thoughts?

I have no thoughts.

Sounds like a well meaning dumb ass, but a dumb ass none the less.

So, the guy had one pistol with approximately 60 rounds? Big whoop.

No legislation will solve this.. sounds like it was detected and handled.. the best we can ever hope for..

we will never prevent violence .. totally

just hope for the best and live your life!

But... But... He had a cache of weapons at his home! He had twelve shotguns at his home!

I know.

I can't remember the last time I left my house and didn't need 60 rounds of ammo.

Would bag searches at the ticket office be out of the question? After all, that's what you do if you go into a museum or art gallery.

That's three magazines.

I only need one bullet. My whole body's a weapon!

In case he twitches twice!

OMG! FULLY loaded magazine!???! How unusual!!!! Normally people only carry partially loaded magazines!!!!!!!!!

This reminds me of the rash of folks putting bugs in peoples ears after the Wrath of Khan came out.

What if 61 Mexicans tried to rape your wife? You'd be fucked then, brother.

He could use the gun itself to bludgeon the 61st Mexican!

We've known that for a long day now.

Why not deny admission to anybody with a "large military-type bag" to begin with?

I know!

I only load 5 rounds in my magazines instead of the 15 they say they can hold. Got to save those springs in the mags!!

Define "large military-type bag"

For all we know he had a fanny pack.

"The officer approached Smith, who had taken what police are calling a "tactical position" in the middle of the back row, 30 minutes before the movie began."

So sitting in the back row and the middle is now the tactical position?

Should I wear black next time I go to sit in the back and middle?

NO! We can't have that, innocent lives are at stake! Think of the CHILDREN!!!

Don't you know that GUNS are EVIL??? People can't be trusted with these WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!! The only moral thing to be done is to ban all guns, that way we can be safe and happy. We must TRUST our government to PROTECT US!!!

Not at all. Just yell "La Migra!" and watch them scatter!

BTW when I went to the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning my son's civilian buddy had to check his backpack. Yet my wife was able to carry her humungous purse inside. They didn't even ask to look inside the purse or x-ray it. WTF?

I carry that much when I go to the grocery store. I'd feel naked only carrying that much into an urban environment.

Do you have a problem with agressive bananas around your way?

Come to think of it, Storm always takes a 'tactical position' across from my wife...

I don't know if they do it anymore, but some of the nabes in NY used to do bag searches to make sure you weren't sneaking in food from home instead of paying for their overpriced snacks. One can only imagine that conversation:

"Is that a Hershey bar under the Glock? No way you're taking that in with you. Hand it over, bub!"

Talk about yer Bloomberg wet dream.

Well, I don'tknow how far the second amendment goes, but in the UK a cinema would be treated legally as a private commerical dwelling. Therefore, while public occupier's liability could occur in terms of harm to visitors, the establishment would be able to dictate the terms upon which it's customer's entered.

I have been in places in the US before which banned any form of weapons upon entry so I assume it's the same. Wouldn't it therefore be simply to just say you can't come into a cinema or theatre (as in live theatre) with a knife or gun? This does not interfere with gun carrying on the street and removes any danger to people in closed enviroments such as these. Problem solved, surely?

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But there are people right here on this board who'd surrender the Hershey bar before they'd hand over the Glock, even though they'd get the latter back at the end of the film, while the former would probably end up in the usher's locker for later consumption.

You'd also get into a TSA-like situation where it took so long to get into the theater that - horrors! - patrons might miss the 20 minutes worth of ads and promos before the actual start of the film.

And since, like most entertainment media, the goal is not for the patron to enjoy a film, but to rush out to the concession stand and pay $20-30 for a super-sized Coke and a tub of popcorn the size of a small car, We Can't Have That.

Movie theater patronage continues to fall off, anyway, with the growing popularity of Netflix, et al.

Yes, and look around all nervous and twitchy and sweaty, while mumbling to yourself.