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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMurdered for texting his three-year-old daughter.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/murdered-for-texting-his-three-year-old-daughter/"Yes, that is what happened. A retired police officer named Curtis Reeves got so mad about young father Chad Oulson texting his young daughter during a movie, he shot the poor guy and his wife. Mr. Oulson was unarmed and is now dead, because he loved his daughter and texted her while he and his wife went out on a short date.
The murderer in this case was a highly trained public safety professional, and on the face of it would seem an unlikely person to just up and kill a man over such a petty thing as texting. That being the case, we all might want to think very hard about carrying guns with us in public places. Had Mister Reeves been carrying, say, mace instead of a .380, he would have been just as safe, and Mister Oulsons daughter would still have her daddy.
But because Curtis Reeves is like so many Americans (cowardly little wussies who are too s***-scared to go to a friggin movie without a cannon jammed down their trousers), a cute young preschooler will have to live the rest of her life without her father, and her mother will have to raise her alone. All for no good reason.
The lesson here, friends, is that a well-regulated militia does not = a bunch of idiots running around with handguns 24/7″. There ARE places in our country in which one would be advised to have a weapon; but a movie theatre during a matinee in a good neighborhood is not one of them. We have the right to keep and bear arms, and we also have the obligation to use that right responsibly.
And because some scaredy-cat old coot did NOT use his Second Amendment rights in a responsible manner, a grieving widow and her toddler are weeping over the loss of the man they loved. A loss that should not have happened. A loss that would not have happened if the old fart had been a good citizen, used his brain, and left his handgun locked up in the gun safe."
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hoping for an excuse to kill someone and feel uber-manly.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)sounds like he's actually hoping someone will try to invade his house, so he can bust out his pew pew pew toys.
however, in practicality, he'd be too drunk to even go get his guns out of the safe...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)weapon, unlock the safety, and then point it in the correct direction.
keeping one around the house is different than taking one to the movies.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)...and this guy will have his carry permit soon... :scary:
all the other guys i know who own like to shoot at cans or paper targets once in a while...
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Unless, well you know, that thing in their pants is ready to fire.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)times.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Here is your typical gun fancier explaining why a round should be chambered while standing in line with kids in Chuck E Cheese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i_nBU11kulo
And, Zimmmerman would tell you he could never have shot a suspicious looking, unarmed skinny teenager had he not had a round chambered.
Is this loser full of it, or not? This is what we allow to walk around in public with a gun or two strapped to their body.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Because the classes and fees are a gift from my uncle. I think the classes will be an interesting anthropopogical experience. But I can't imagine muself ever wanting to walk around in public with a concealed firearm. It seems like it would make me feel less safe because, jeez I'm at the mall and I have a gun. I do think many such people fantasize about killing someone and getting away with it. I thinkbthose people can be divided into at least two categories: sadists and wannabe heroes.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)bring his gun for protection to somewhere like Costa Rica.
People are generally amazed that such questions are asked honestly.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)And why was it that this guy in the movie was the one that pushed him too far? In his years (?) as a cop he never had any kind of stress equivalent to a guy texting during previews?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Wouldn't a good cop be trained and inclined to diffuse a situation where a couple of hot heads are arguing in a movie theater?
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)And freedom.
cali
(114,904 posts)Mr. blunt idiot is simply being emotionally manipulative- revolting thing to do, but it is that moron-
It matters not at all who he was texting.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Lost_Count
(555 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)catbyte
(34,373 posts)Which makes it even more heinous in my book.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)I wonder if seats were between the two men - it sounds like it. Much more egregious than Trevor Dooley. Victim in both cases a middle aged white father with a young child. Dooley was black and Reeves is white. Dooley's victim had his hand on Dooley's throat and had taken him to the ground and was on top of him. Dooley was convicted of manslaughter.
Will follow proceedings with interest.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)... wouldn't the noise of the gunfire disturb other theater-goers and then justify Curtis Reeves being killed by another theater patron?
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)could shoot him as a robber.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Then sure, why not?
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1365975
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)All of my least favorite factors in this sad story.
stage left
(2,961 posts)But since he's a retired cop he probably won't.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Gothmog
(145,129 posts)This was not self defense
Rex
(65,616 posts)and show no empathy for the dead dad...sadly right here in GD. Really makes ya wonder.