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Mon Jan 13, 2014, 06:43 PM

sulphurdunn (6,891 posts)

19. Or something might

come out of the screen and attack them. Especially in a 3D flick.

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124 replies	Author	Time	Post
Texting argument leaves one dead, another hurt in movie theater shooting [View all]	alp227	Jan 2014	OP
stand your movie ground	uhnope	Jan 2014	#1
I mean it isn't funny but I couldn't help but LOL...	jimlup	Jan 2014	#2
Shooting is wrong...	awoke_in_2003	Jan 2014	#9
The movie hadn't started	secondvariety	Jan 2014	#20
Well, if he is white, an ex-cop	Kelvin Mace	Jan 2014	#25
is that the rule. being an asshole is okay until the movie starts?	olddad56	Jan 2014	#41
The world	secondvariety	Jan 2014	#49
I've run into plenty of a$$holes ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2014	#68
i'm guessing that you're cool with the outcome if that's your takeaway	frylock	Jan 2014	#57
If the movie hadn't started yet,	passiveporcupine	Jan 2014	#60
The previews ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2014	#66
Yeah, I know you are being sarcastic	passiveporcupine	Jan 2014	#72
So true ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2014	#74
Another pro-murder post	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#67
paranoid gun humpers want their weapons with them at all times	Skittles	Jan 2014	#15
Or something might	sulphurdunn	Jan 2014	#19
Wonder what was in the background of the shooter? Mental/anger management issues?	Dustlawyer	Jan 2014	#3
retired Tampa police officer. nt	kelly1mm	Jan 2014	#34
I guess he had at least one other incident with texters	Quixote1818	Jan 2014	#111
A guy carrying a gun legally.	MH1	Jan 2014	#116
While it is unfortunate that someone died,	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#4
Along the same line,	TheCowsCameHome	Jan 2014	#7
Yup.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#10
Maybe....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#38
Right.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#42
Don't take it too personal, because I'm probably the only one that has no idea	A Simple Game	Jan 2014	#44
I'm not the one who used this murder as an opportunity to rant....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#48
Someone annoyed a person with a gun and was shot.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#52
Not be a prick?	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#82
You're the one trying to mitigate this murder.	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#69
Oh, bullshit.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#75
Yes, I happen to have a HUGE problem with cold blooded murder.	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#76
Next time you get cut off, give someone the bird.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#78
I've given the finger several times while driving without issue	NoGOPZone	Jan 2014	#83
His daughter was 3 years old.	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#90
Put me on ignore.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#91
I chose to remember the banality of evil that exists even here.	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#92
Keep feigning that outrage.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#93
Keep getting off to people being murdered in front of their families	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#99
Do you get a piece rate for your straw man arguments?	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#101
NEENER NEENER LEAVE IT	NuclearDem	Jan 2014	#96
Civil discourse is dead.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#97
No it's not.	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#124
I have a problem with it....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#80
I do have a problem with it.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#84
Nice reply	warrant46	Jan 2014	#87
Do what, text?	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#113
More victim blaming.....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#114
He chose to argue	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#115
I bet you're one of those people who doesn't have the courage to argue with someody	tabasco	Jan 2014	#117
That seems to be the gist....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#121
She chose to wear a short skirt	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#120
Yet	obxhead	Jan 2014	#53
they just haven't made an app for that yet!	passiveporcupine	Jan 2014	#61
Or better ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2014	#71
Somebody can't alert for 24 hours.	Sissyk	Jan 2014	#43
The result of advocacy becoming zealotry.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#46
Maybe the babysitter had texted him with a question.	MH1	Jan 2014	#118
Only two points to make here	Proud Public Servant	Jan 2014	#5
PPS, you're speaking my language. :)	bigworld	Jan 2014	#13
It sucks when something like this happens and you're forced	mindwalker_i	Jan 2014	#36
Delete this fucking filth.	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#73
I'm with you on this one.	MH1	Jan 2014	#119
I smell a "Stand your Ground" defense!	atreides1	Jan 2014	#6
There would need to be important details missing	ManiacJoe	Jan 2014	#31
So do I. It happened in Florida and the ex-cop was threatened by popcorn.	sinkingfeeling	Jan 2014	#104
I feel like this thread just got infiltrated with puke and feces.	MyNameGoesHere	Jan 2014	#8
Yes, texters should be shot in the head.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#14
Or those who dismiss the fatal shooting itself, and instead focus a petulant ire on texting...	LanternWaste	Jan 2014	#23
Someone got shot; it must be a day that ends with "y."	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#32
I suppose I'd rationalize it as such too	LanternWaste	Jan 2014	#37
Yawn.	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#39
"...and then accuse others of hyperbole..."	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#85
Thanks for saying this. I got the same impression the gun trolls are dancing all	valerief	Jan 2014	#17
It's everywhere.	Wait Wut	Jan 2014	#22
The thread looks fine to me:	freshwest	Jan 2014	#51
Disgusting.	Dawson Leery	Jan 2014	#77
Florida	LiberalEsto	Jan 2014	#11
All these bullets flying around Florida constantly	Blue_Tires	Jan 2014	#56
I can just see the NRA response	R Merm	Jan 2014	#12
High Ground	bpj62	Jan 2014	#16
See my post #47 below. I think eventually businesses are going to suffer because of customers'	tblue37	Jan 2014	#50
+1000	sinkingfeeling	Jan 2014	#105
Oh Florida, you give and give and I never get you anything. nt	TeamPooka	Jan 2014	#18
The Second Amendment absolutist	billh58	Jan 2014	#21
He was a law abiding gun owner until he shot and killed that man and wounded the man's wife	Kaleva	Jan 2014	#24
Texting Triggers Movie Theater Shooting by Retired Cop	jsr	Jan 2014	#26
I read that they've already charged him with 2nd degree homicide.	Kaleva	Jan 2014	#29
The only way to stop a bad guy with a smartphone is ... oh never mind.... <nt>	oioioi	Jan 2014	#64
Stand Your Ground	blkmusclmachine	Jan 2014	#27
The price gun fanciers require us to pay so they can carry their gunz everywhere.	Hoyt	Jan 2014	#28
another law abiding piece of shit ,	JI7	Jan 2014	#30
Texting Is Not A Constitutional Right	SoCalMusicLover	Jan 2014	#33
I see that the NRA's solution to the Colorado movie theater shooting...	Blanks	Jan 2014	#35
people still go to movie theaters?	olddad56	Jan 2014	#40
I probably would have said something to the texter, and then gone to mgmt.	tofuandbeer	Jan 2014	#45
I am beginning to think that eventually businesses that depend on customers	tblue37	Jan 2014	#47
that is one of the reasons I have no desire to go to a movie theater, but there are others....	olddad56	Jan 2014	#63
You're Not Supposed To Carry Firearms Into Most Businesses (Thankfully)	Bigredhunk	Jan 2014	#54
If I'm not mistaken, in states with concealed carry laws	godevil10	Jan 2014	#108
In most states, those signs carry no legal weight.	ManiacJoe	Jan 2014	#112
Oh, this guy had to protect himself alright.	MH1	Jan 2014	#122
I saw it on CNN	ut oh	Jan 2014	#55
People are pretty much doing that in this thread.....	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2014	#81
-	Bigredhunk	Jan 2014	#58
Ha! I remember the Alamo movie theater ad:	alp227	Jan 2014	#59
You pretty much summed up my thinking, as well.	hamsterjill	Jan 2014	#86
You need to edit your post	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#94
Why are people so stressed out today?	passiveporcupine	Jan 2014	#62
You would think a Police Captain	Turbineguy	Jan 2014	#65
He set up the tactical response unit	exboyfil	Jan 2014	#102
Oh, how wonderful.	christx30	Jan 2014	#70
Watch that fucker try to use a SYG defense	gopiscrap	Jan 2014	#79
Guns are the best conflict resolution devices. nt	onehandle	Jan 2014	#88
Oh Florida	Capt. Obvious	Jan 2014	#89
Here we go again...	go west young man	Jan 2014	#95
+100. Thank you so much, Gun Culture.	Paladin	Jan 2014	#98
Wait, did you say that the texter had some responsibility in this?	OnyxCollie	Jan 2014	#100
Wrong again	DisgustipatedinCA	Jan 2014	#110
These days even grocery shopping can be dangerous. You might bump the wrong person with your	appleannie1	Jan 2014	#103
You and I are on the same page. Because of there is no place safe anymore	sinkingfeeling	Jan 2014	#106
Terrible tragedy	gwheezie	Jan 2014	#107
That is sickening.	Xyzse	Jan 2014	#109
Experiment	hollowdweller	Jan 2014	#123

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