Florida cinema shooting: Man who killed texter had been texting, too
Source: CS Monitor
Curtis Reeves’s son was late. So, at 1:04 p.m. on Jan. 13, Mr. Reeves, a retired police officer, sent his son a text, telling him that he and his wife had gone into the movie theater and were seated.
Not so unusual – except that, just minutes later, Reeves shot to death another theatergoer when the man refused to stop texting during the movie previews.
Reeves's son, Matthew Reeves, told investigators that his father had replied to his text that he was late to meet them at the 1:20 p.m. showing of "Lone Survivor," after he stopped to wash his truck, according to documents released Thursday by Florida prosecutors and obtained by the Associated Press. His father had replied that he and his wife were seated.
When Matthew did walk into the theater, about 15 minutes later, he saw the light and heard the sound of the gunshot that killed Chad Oulsen, who was sitting with his wife and had been texting the babysitter watching his young daughter while waiting for the movie to begin, according to investigators quoted in The Tampa Bay Times. Matthew had rushed to use a bystander’s shirt to stop the blood flow from the wounded man and had looked up to see his father, standing in the theater’s back row, looking shocked, according to The Tampa Bay Times.
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Curtis Reeves, here at a bond hearing in Dade City, Fla., on Feb. 5, reportedly shot a man in a movie theater on Jan. 13, because he was texting. He is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Chad Oulson.
Andy Jones/The Tampa Tribune/AP/File
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The guy he killed was armed with popcorn.
This country is insane.
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“There are a lot of people dead today who would be alive but for [a gun carrier] who gets angry and accelerates an argument to a homicide,” says Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center in Washington. “It’s very clear that carrying a concealed gun creates a mindset among some people that, ‘I’ve got a gun, the state sanctions it, therefore I have a right to use it’ ” in public.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0115/Florida-popcorn-shooting-Are-concealed-guns-about-self-defense-or-power-video
Popcorn: It's a gateway weapon.
Next up: Raisinettes. And you know where this is going.
Skittles: now we're talking hard core.
You seem to have groked the gestalt around here very nicely.
