You want to stop this?

Allow concealed carry in the theaters.

You only get 70 shot when there is no one to shoot back.

Sooooo…. the gun control that holds sway in DC causes the high body counts, but across the river, in Virginia, where citizens are armed, it’s the bad guys wearing the toe tags.

And, in almost every stinking Mass Public Shooting, from Luby’s, Columbine, Jonesboro, Long Island Rail Road, Va Tech, the Empire State Observation Deck and many, many more, GUN CONTROL WAS IN PLACE.

You think it still works?

You are the moron.

The way Holmes was dressed, the Police thought, at first that he was a member of S.W.A.T. There was a cop there in 1minute & 30 second after the 911 call. He was trained for that type of situation, but even still, HE couldn’t tell who was doing the shooting.
When Holmes through the tear gas canisters into theatre #9, no one could see anyone else until it ran out & people were actually able to see what was happening, rather than just *hearing* it.

And you want people to be able to carry concealed/unconcealed guns in theaters?! Take a moment to think about this: over 100 (I can’t remember the exact total) people, a lot of who are carrying a gun that horrible night… I think this would have led to many more deaths of innocent people, rather than allowing someone to be a hero by shooting at Holmes.
First off, people couldn’t SEE, and secondly, Holmes was in body armor better than most cops have!

Seriously, calling people morons is just going to make things worse. Just stop.

No, I want people to be able to carry concealed weapons everywhere. Because not all shootings happen in the middle of a dark theater with tear gas. I have been around guns my ENTIRE life. My father, however, was a smart enough man to teach me gun safety, causing me to know the benefits of a gun in it’s proper setting. Any person who is allowed to legally carry a gun has to go through gun safety causing them to know the proper way to handle their guns and disarm a person. My father, who is a cop, has carried a gun with him everywhere as long as I remember. When I asked him why he carried a gun even to church he told me a story about a guy, another cop, who dropped his daughter off at Sunday School and while he was still there someone shot and killed his daughter. Had that man had a gun he could have prevented his little girl dying. So, before saying that someone there should be no concealed carried because there’d be more deaths, do your research. And to Kiara, the violence of a gun does depend who hold it, because most of the people who have them will never have to discharge it and use it on another person. Most people will just use for a sense of security, hunting, or target practice, so if they ever have to use it they will be prepared.

 “a competent shooter can easily hit a six inch target from 30 feet away, not much larger than the shooters’ exposed face, and considerably smaller than his unarmored thighs or back of his legs.” 

And yes, I’m completely aware that of this. My son is a SHARP SHOOTER. But the average person isn’t that great of a shot, and if they’ve taken any police self defense classes, hell – just about any self defense class – they teach you to go for the biggest target: the torso.

“The facts of armed self defense contradict your theory.”

Did you even read my post?  Jeez, it wasn’t a theory, it was an opinion.  And I wasn’t talking about protecting ourselves in a dark ally.  I was talking SPECIFICALLY about THIS movie theatre case.

“My sense of it is that you rail against the possibility that a successful argument for self defense will disturb the Leftist narrative in favor of disarmament that you are willing to sacrifice the lives of all those who had been shot in Aurora, at Va Tech, at Luby’s Cafeteria, at the Empire State Observation Deck, Columbine, Jonesboro and all those other locations of massacres — ALL OF WHICH HAD STRICT GUN CONTROL IN PLACE.”

First off, I didn’t “rail” about anything.  So, your “senses” are WAY off.
I don’t have a “leftist argument” because I’m a Republican.

Man, you’re really full of yourself, aren’t you, you pompous dick.  I like how you throw around your $5 words, trying to make yourself look smart by putting me down.  Sad.
And don’t talk to ME about Columbine.  I was there the next day on a press pass.  I sat In a trailer with 3 little girls who had seen everything, but had hid themselves and managed to stay alive.  So go to hell, you arrogant, judgmental bastard.  You’re just talking out of your ass.

Oh, and if I were you?  I wouldn’t rely too much on your “senses”….

Kiara, the brand new profile of three posts, most likely someone already here under another name, you don’t need me to call you a fool. It’s your state of being. Even if I did not exist, you would still be a fool.

How do we know this?

Because of the wildly-uninformed things you write.

Have you ever traveled overseas?

Even been to Kosovo, where unarmed civilians were slaughtered by roving Muslim terrorists (KLA / UCK)? Or seen the thousands hacked to bits in Rwanda, because they didn’t have arms to defend themselves?

Or tour the killing fields of Southeast Asia, where the intelligentsia from South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were slaughtered by the million by the government? It’s a tragedy that has been played out again and again and again. Those who are unarmed are slaughtered by those who have guns.

The trick is, never let someone disarm you.

Even if you have not traveled, you can still read. Go read The Black Book of Communism by Stephane Courtois, cataloging the 100 Million innocents murdered by Socialist governments, or worse yet, visit the DEMOCIDE website by Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, who details how armed governments have killed about 270 million civilians during the last century.

The Founders studied tyranny and they were, to a man, dead-set against a governmental monopoly on weapons, because in the end, all power emerges from the muzzle of a gun.

“Inter arma silent leges” (while guns fire, the laws are useless).

The Constitution was written that the citizens be armed. Not just for their own protection against murderers like Holmes, but against tyrants who would seize power for themselves.

You have much to learn from history.