20 people shot at Batman midnight screening.

[garbon]

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.

[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]

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: 

Police 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.

[Martinus]

the poorest makes 1/20.

Is that me? It's me, isn't it?

No

[garbon]

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.

[CountDeMoney]

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]

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: 

Police 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?

[Syt]

He was Asian. Nobody can know what they think or feel, if anything.

[garbon]

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

Besides, while you can, if you bring a gun to a movie theater after a widely publicized shooting, you are asking for trouble.

[PDH]

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

[CountDeMoney]

LAWL. And gun-brandishing screaming cops did not obviously make this sitting guy nervous?

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

[Phillip V]

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

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]

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

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.

[CountDeMoney]

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]

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

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'.