Man pulls gun in fight over boy kicking back of chair at Kentucky theater

[jpak]

Source: Cleveland.com

PADUCAH, Kentucky — A fight that started over a young boy kicking the back of a chair in a movie theater resulted in a man pulling a gun and threatening the boy's father, reports say.

Now police are seeking charges against the man with the gun, westkentuckystar.com reports.

Police responded to Cinemark Theater on Saturday morning during a showing of "Star Trek Beyond", kfvs12.com reports. Police say a man and his son were sitting in the theater and the boy was kicking the back of the seat of a man in front of him.

Reports say the man got up and cursed the boy, leading to a fight between him and the boy's father.

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[msongs]

1. they are lucky the gun owner didnt committ mass murder nt

[sakabatou]

2. The hell...?

[reddread]

14. Kentucky...

way more guns than people.
if chair kicker daddy didnt see it coming,
I wonder what was he doing in McCracken county?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Now, instead of learning to control themselves, armed people can simply threaten someone.

Why should anyone be self-disciplined, civilized when he/she can go berserk, instead?

Why bother? Having a gun tells you you're O.K. all the time, and everyone who hacks you off is not.

How elegant. A new country of coast to coast bullying assholes.

[Ilsa]

6. Rec this! ^^^^^

Welcome to the "an armed society is a polite society". Not.

[dhill926]

25. you nailed it....

an ominous development for our society...

[billh58]

44. +100 n/t

[Hoyt]

4. For every shooting that hits news, there are many more cases of intimidation with guns that don't.

Intimidation of spouses/family, road rage, flashing/pulling a gun because you fear someone walking down the street, get off my lawn, and worse.

In fact, some of those cases of intimidation, get counted as "defensive gun use" stats gunners like to cite. To gun fanciers, george zimmerman used his gun defensively when he stalked, intimidated and murdered Trayvon Martin.

[Major Nikon]

11. Everyone is capable of being irrational

Add guns to the mix and bad outcomes are inevitable.

Guns do not make anyone safer. They make themselves and everyone around them less safe.

[Orrex]

5. Another good guy

So easily distinguished from a bad guy with a gun.

[IronLionZion]

7. Now if the boy had a gun too, we could have a different outcome.

A heavily armed society is a polite society. you know, like Afghanistan or Somalia. Unlike those impolite bastards suffering under the jackboots of tyranny in Australia or Ireland. The man with the gun was being repressed by the boy so he fought for his freedom.

[christx30]

48. Man does an completely unwarranted pull of a gun, points it at dad.

Dad does a completely justified pull of his weapon in self defense. First idiot now is feels threatened, and opens fire. Boy is now an orphan.
A heavily armed society is a bloody society.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. An armed society is a polite society ... nt

[Vinca]

9. To be completely honest, I was at an event with several screaming 4 year olds on Saturday

and it's probably a good thing I'm anti-gun. Strangulation did cross my mind, though. Kidding, of course, but if you allow guns everywhere except where the politicians work, this is what happens.

[Warpy]

10. I was about to post that the doting parent of a chair kicker

who wouldn't tell the brat to knock it off should be considered at fault in a case like this. It would have been justifiable homicide, although I'd hope a gun in a crowded theater wouldn't be involved.

The problem with toting a gun everywhere is the old adage, "if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." A lot of people out there need to lose their hammers and expand their tool belt to include starting out with nonviolent means.

It would also help if theaters ejected undisciplined brats, especially in crowded first run movies everybody wants to see.

[leftynyc]

13. Huh?

Are you seriously saying it would have been justified for the ammosexual to shoot a kid because he was kicking his chair? because that's what this sentence seems to be saying:

It would have been justifiable homicide, although I'd hope a gun in a crowded theater wouldn't be involved

How about the asshole getting up and changing seats?

[Warpy]

39. Where did I say that?

Oh, YOU did.

I understand the anger at doting parents of undisciplined brats. I don't understand gun waving in a crowded theater, at all.

[leftynyc]

41. How many times do

I need to copy your own words back to you?

[LanternWaste]

23. It may help even more if the immature mind realize that children are in fact, merely children.

"It would also help if theaters ejected undisciplined brats..."

It may help even more if the immature mind realize that children are in fact, merely children, and making a conscious choice to visit a public venue which allows children often requires more tolerance than the undisciplined, self-serving "adult" may find palatable.

Seems to me that if one allows themselves a righteous rage or impassioned fury simply from a child kicking a chair, then the problem lies with them for acting a child, rather than the child acting a child.

[uppityperson]

24. What? You expect adults to act more maturely than children?

Seriously, I don't understand the attitude of adults insulting children and acting out against them. If they can't control themselves, why do they expect kids to be able to.

[Warpy]

35. It's a parent's job to civilize them and prevent them from annoying other people

through maddening behaviors like chair kicking. Parents of children who annoy other people who tell them about it have a duty to tell the kid to stop the behavior. A movie theater is not Chuck E Cheese and appropriate behavior needs to be taught.

Otherwise, you end up with Donald Trump.

[Paladin]

15. So a "Second Amendment Solution" works for you in these circumstances?

Do me a favor and stay out of movie theaters in my community.

[reddread]

16. how much for three bales?

[Paladin]

18. I stand by my prior comment. (nt)

[Paladin]

21. You just made my day. Thanks. (nt)

[StrictlyRockers]

37. Seriously? I hope you don't own any guns.

Nice attitude.

[Paladin]

45. Too late.

I've been a gun owner for more than 50 years. Not a single negative incident with them in all that time. You see, I'm one of those weird-o gun owners: I'm a lifelong Democrat, and I favor rigorous controls on the ownership and use of firearms---pulling out a pistol and aiming it at an unruly kid in a movie theater ought to end your access to anything more lethal than a Q-Tip, as far as I'm concerned.

[StrictlyRockers]

46. You sound like the very, very rare gun owner I wouldn't automatically loathe

And if you check, unless I am mistaken, I was not responding to you. I can't be sure since I blocked that newbie kid who thinks it's fine to pull out a gun in a crowded theater as long as you don't shoot anyone.

[Paladin]

47. Your earlier comment was directed at me, rather than the trouble-maker.

No problem, I know such things happen; I've been guilty of it, myself. And I hope that gun owners such as myself aren't "very, very rare."

[billh58]

50. +100

Thanks...

[Paladin]

54. De nada..... (nt)

[snooper2]

30. how old are you?

[Skittles]

52. gun humpers are sooooo fragile

[Chemisse]

20. I can condemn the guy!

What about moving to a different seat?

How about turning around and glaring at the kid and his dad? Maybe even make a rude comment.

Pulling a gun should not be among your tools for dealing with minor annoyances.

[uppityperson]

26. I condemn the guy for acting so immaturely.

[Aristus]

32. Oh well then, that makes it all right...

[Paladin]

33. HE.PULLED.A.GUN.ON.A.KID.FOR.AN.INSIGNIFICANT.BEHAVIOR.PROBLEM.

And you seem OK with that. How about talking to the kid's parents? How about contacting theater management? Life in NRA-Land........

[StrictlyRockers]

38. That's the comment that got you blocked.

Welcome to DU and Good bye, sir.

[trueblue2007]

43. i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT and he NEVER has the right to own a gun again!!

i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT and he NEVER has the right to own a gun again!! Violent sociopath!!



and I AM BLOCKING YOU TOO for making an ignorant statement.
GUNS AND STUPID PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

[uppityperson]

49. He did, however act immaturely. Threatening a man and child for kicking his seat is immature.

He ruined the movie for everyone in the theater also.

You seem to be saying that so long as you don't shoot someone, threatening a parent and child with a gun is mature behavior for the crime of having your seatback kicked. That is quite the attitude.

[drm604]

51. Pulling a gun creates a dangerous atmosphere.

Some other armed person might have decided that this person was a mass shooter who was going to start shooting and decided to take him out first. Others may have thought that this second person was a shooter, etc., etc. Pretty soon a movie theater becomes the OK corral.

[Warpy]

36. A lot of parents seem to realize this one salient fact

Their child's annoying behavior is cute only to blood relatives. Everybody else is going to think their kid is an undisciplined brat.

[bekkilyn]

22. Why not try asking?

Seriously, why did the guy not turn around and try asking the boy/father to stop *politely* as a *first* solution? I saw nothing in the article that stated he had asked and been ignored. The fact that the guy was so *immediately* frustrated that the very first thing he does is pull a gun on a child (yes, it says father but it may as well have been both of them) says a lot.

[liberal N proud]

27. That is just how fucking scary it is.

You just don't know when some nut job with a gun is going to go off on something you did or said.

[Initech]

28. Just another day in gun country.

[maxsolomon]

31. Another Successful Defensive Gun Use!

The cause of, and solution to, all America's problems!

[dembotoz]

34. one word.....netflix

[trueblue2007]

40. my nephew did this few times when he was little. i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT

my nephew acted like this sometimes when he was little. i say THROW THE MAN IN JAIL FOR ASSAULT and he NEVER has the right to own a gun again!! Violent sociopath!!

[molova]

42. senseless guns

are wreaking havoc everywhere.

[tawadi]

53. Some people shouldn't own a gun.

Understatement.