Murdered for texting his three-year-old daughter.

[riqster]

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 Oulson’s 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."

Source info at the link.

[geek tragedy]

1. when gun-humpers say that they're carrying for self-defense, they're really

hoping for an excuse to kill someone and feel uber-manly.

[dionysus]

2. while most of the people i know who own weapons are not like that, one guy is. the way he talks, he

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]

3. i exaggerate a bit, but what scenario do these guys envision where they'll have time to draw their

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]

7. IMO it's a fantasy, to actually be able to shoot someone and be justified...

...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]

11. You forgot they also have to chamber a round

Unless, well you know, that thing in their pants is ready to fire.

[MillennialDem]

17. I knew a guy (well, online anyway) who said he carried with round chambered and safety off at all

times.

[Hoyt]

27. Oh no, a bunch, perhaps most, carry a round in the chamber.

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]

30. as I posted in a seperate thread, I am getting my carry permit

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]

32. On travel boards, every once and a while an American will ask if he can

bring his gun for protection to somewhere like Costa Rica.

People are generally amazed that such questions are asked honestly.

[NightWatcher]

4. I wonder how many people this guy shot when he was a cop

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]

31. right?

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]

5. Bbbbut......'Murica.

And freedom.

[cali]

6. why on earth you or anyone else thinks it matters who he was texting......

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]

9. if i didn't know better cali, i'd say you weren't a blunt and cranky fan.

[Lost_Count]

13. Making hay while the sun is shining...

[Shrike47]

15. Three year old probably can't read anyway so why text?

[catbyte]

8. It wasn't even during the movie. It was during the PREVIEWS.

Which makes it even more heinous in my book.

[Iggo]

10. Cops.

[exboyfil]

12. Eyewitness report

http://www.wral.com/man-fatally-shot-at-fla-theater-over-texting/13296689/

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]

14. By Curtis Reeves firing a weapon inside a theater ...

... wouldn't the noise of the gunfire disturb other theater-goers and then justify Curtis Reeves being killed by another theater patron?

[Shrike47]

16. Yes.

[MillennialDem]

18. Even worse, I'm sure they MISSED the movie. If he did not return their $10, they

could shoot him as a robber.

[riqster]

21. If it's OK to kill a hooker for not providing sex,

Then sure, why not?


http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1365975

[Cali_Democrat]

19. Gun nuts should be illegal. n/t

[riqster]

20. Maybe he'll shoot his own gun nuts off. Nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

22. It's not OK to fire in a crowded theatre? N.T.

[riqster]

23. Who knew?

[morningfog]

24. Florida plus cop plus gun equals dead.

All of my least favorite factors in this sad story.

[stage left]

25. Reeves needs to go to jail for the rest of his life for murder.

But since he's a retired cop he probably won't.

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Exactly right

[Gothmog]

28. This is a very sad story

This was not self defense

[Rex]

29. What is even sicker is watching gun humpers defend this guy

and show no empathy for the dead dad...sadly right here in GD. Really makes ya wonder.