Shooting at Batman Premiere.

[Miguels]

i was just watching the news and seen how they want to ban guns and change our rights. people who are running the government are just plain stupid. the excuse they used was the guns where bought legal. so stopping the sell of fire arms would be good, how good will it be when only registered guns will be confiscated and all guns that are here illegally will still be in criminals hands. banning guns will not fix anything. what they have to do is give criminals more prison time or death depending on crime committed

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

This all is sad. We should be thankful that we're discussing gun laws rather than a funeral for a loved one.

[Optimus_Prime]

I am skilled with each of my weapons. I believe strongly in being practiced and efficient with any weapon one may own. The average ccw no but theres always one in the crowd. They said he swept the isles aiming at people if his weapon was pointed at me in range where i felt mine was effective you can bet your ass it would have been pulled. As smoke said most people dont even know when a proper ccw holder is packing

Edit: im speaking of florida statues i dont know colorado laws

I'm not going to question your proficiency with firearms, I’m not going to disagree with your willingness to help. If anything I applaud that.

But with that said, from your response am I to assume that if this was going on 15 aisles in front of you that you would wait, as dozens of frantic people raced up and over you, for the individual to come toward you? And you are that confident with your skill level to accurately hit only the armed individual amongst the chaos?

Again, no debate from me... Individuals will do what they see fit. My points here are these:

1) You open yourself up to more liability if you don’t use your CCW as a defensive option. The name of the game is GET AWAY, not stay and fight.

2) As a CCW holder and civilian your responsibility first and foremost is to YOURSELF and YOUR family, not the rest of the world. While there may be opportunities in certain situations for you to come to the defense of a group (such as the 71 year old man in the cafe everyone in the CCW world is nut hugging right now) this movie theater scenario is not one of them.

3) Just as we have all the time in the world now to arm chair quarterback this tragedy, someone will have all the time in the world to armchair quarterback your actions. IF things don’t go silky smooth, sweet as pie you will be the poster child for all that is wrong with CCW.

4) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SO LISTEN UP!

If I, as a police officer, am responding to this call and walk in the theater and see an unidentified man with a weapon and feel my life is endangered I WILL SHOOT RIGHT THROUGH YOU! Plain clothed officers die every year due to this, being at the wrong place at the wrong time trying to help and getting blasted by one of their own. It's a sad fact of the job. So don’t think for one sec Johnny Bravo officer would think twice about plugging you is he can’t identify you. Your safer by just getting out of harm’s way!

In the end this played out the best way, ONLY ONE GUNMAN in a dark movie theater. Not multiple shooters who the authorities needed to identify as friend or foe when they arrived on scene. Everyone’s actions have consequences, don’t let the loss of your own life be one of them if you have the option of flight. No one will think less of you for keeping yourself alive. And if CO. is a CCW state doesn’t kid yourself, people were armed in that theater. I just goes to show that human instinct still is flight over fight

Agreed, and well said. And on top of it all, you the ccw stand very little chance with a handgun wearing plain clothing, up against a twisted sick individual heavily armed and wearing armor. Best option would be get the heck out of there asap, and or stay down and seek cover moving as much as possible away from the threat toward an exit.

[Optimus_Prime]

Very sad and tragic, prayers and condolences for the victims and their family and friends.

[bassface]

They should gather up his whole family and make them watch, put him in a giant meat grinder and at 1/4 speed, slowly grind him up, legs first. Also it would need to be on tv so any future crazies can see what happens.

[big dee]

I pray for all the families involed that lost a loved one. Its sad this happened ,what a coward it took to pick off innocent people like that.

[Chris Hammer]

http://news.yahoo.com/3-arrested-separate-dark-knight-incidents-080930278.html

Saw this today and thought its proabable better posted here than in a new thread. If better off in a new thread I will start one.