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Started by katmai, July 20, 2012, 04:26:37 AM

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garbon

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 08:50:41 AM
Moviegoers notice gun permit-holder with holster sitting in the theater. They call the police. The police arrive and frisk everybody. They threaten the permit-holder with death and arrest him.

http://www.courant.com/community/new-haven/hc-new-haven-gun-incident-0808-2-20120807,0,5258663.story

I don't see a problem. Not sure where he got off ignoring the police.
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Phillip V

The police should not have been there in the first place, or at least not violently escalated the situation.

Now, if the middle-aged Asian man talking on his cellphone started making threatening movements, then fellow moviegoers should justifiably be afraid.

I would like to see the police called every time a gun permit-carrying citizen is carrying a gun.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 09:40:03 AM
The police should not have been there in the first place, or at least not violently escalated the situation.

Hey, cop hating faggot bitch, read the fine print: 
QuotePolice rushed to a Temple Street movie theater shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday after receiving calls of an armed man in the theater.
When officers identified the armed man, they drew their weapons and ordered him to put his hands up. He did not comply with the officers' orders and remained in his seat while using his cell phone, police said.

Part of the problem with an armed I-spooge-over-my-2nd-Amendment-rights crowd:  people with guns make other people, and police officers, nervous.


garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 08, 2012, 09:44:55 AM
Part of the problem with an armed I-spooge-over-my-2nd-Amendment-rights crowd:  people with guns make other people, and police officers, nervous.

Indeed and I don't even like cops.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on August 08, 2012, 09:49:34 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 08, 2012, 09:44:55 AM
Part of the problem with an armed I-spooge-over-my-2nd-Amendment-rights crowd:  people with guns make other people, and police officers, nervous.

Indeed and I don't even like cops.

Me neither.

Phillip V

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 08, 2012, 09:44:55 AM
Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 09:40:03 AM
The police should not have been there in the first place, or at least not violently escalated the situation.

Hey, cop hating faggot bitch, read the fine print: 
QuotePolice rushed to a Temple Street movie theater shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday after receiving calls of an armed man in the theater.
When officers identified the armed man, they drew their weapons and ordered him to put his hands up. He did not comply with the officers' orders and remained in his seat while using his cell phone, police said.

Part of the problem with an armed I-spooge-over-my-2nd-Amendment-rights crowd:  people with guns make other people, and police officers, nervous.
LAWL. And gun-brandishing screaming cops did not obviously make this sitting guy nervous? :lmfao:

Syt

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garbon

It isn't that hard to comply with the police. :mellow:

Besides, while you can, if you bring a gun to a movie theater after a widely publicized shooting, you are asking for trouble.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

PDH

If more people had been shooting guns at the Aurora theater that night less people would have been hurt.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 10:06:50 AM
LAWL. And gun-brandishing screaming cops did not obviously make this sitting guy nervous? :lmfao:

Apparently not nervous enough to ignore them and keep talking on the phone.  What a putz.

Phillip V

Quote from: garbon on August 08, 2012, 10:10:57 AM
It isn't that hard to comply with the police. :mellow:
It's hard to for people to uniformly "comply" in surprise high-stress dangerous situations; ever read cases of police killing unarmed civilians "by accident"?

In any case, hopefully there is a lawsuit, and then we can see in court if "making people nervous" is a justifiable defense.

HVC

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 10:15:53 AM
Quote from: garbon on August 08, 2012, 10:10:57 AM
It isn't that hard to comply with the police. :mellow:
It's hard to for people to uniformly "comply" in surprise high-stress dangerous situations; ever read cases of police killing unarmed civilians "by accident"?

In any case, hopefully there is a lawsuit, and then we can see in court if "making people nervous" is a justifiable defense.
if he can't handle the "stress" of complying to a simple command then he doesn't deserve a gun permit.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 10:15:53 AM
In any case, hopefully there is a lawsuit, and then we can see in court if "making people nervous" is a justifiable defense.

I really wish I had the opportunity to curb hop your ass in the back of a wagon.  I really do.

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: Phillip V on August 08, 2012, 10:15:53 AM
Quote from: garbon on August 08, 2012, 10:10:57 AM
It isn't that hard to comply with the police. :mellow:
It's hard to for people to uniformly "comply" in surprise high-stress dangerous situations; ever read cases of police killing unarmed civilians "by accident"?

In any case, hopefully there is a lawsuit, and then we can see in court if "making people nervous" is a justifiable defense.
Any reason why it shouldn't? A crazy person shoots up a theater full of people ,there is talk for weeks of possible copy cat crazies, and this guy walked into a theater with a gun.  That the gun was legal wasn't necessarily enough to make anybody around him more comfortable.  Did he say, "hey everybody, don't worry, I have a permit for this?" Probably not.  Did he tell the cops he had a permit? He was talking on his phone.  There are a lot of ways this could have worked out better, both for the cops, and this guy.  But it wasn't the cops alone who were to blame.

I like the comments too.  People nervous about a guy with a gun in a tight space were 'sheeple'.
PDH!