Over Reaction To The Aurora, Colorado Theater Shooting
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Nancy and I decided to go to an afternoon movie. We don’t go to movies a lot, but when we do go, we like the nearly empty theaters you find during the weekdays.
We paid the exorbitant tickets price of $22 to get in, then are
greeted by a bespectacled teenager who must have been 5′ 6″ and weighed
120 pounds. He said he needed to look in Nancy’s purse to see if she
was carrying anything illegal, like a gun. He didn’t even question me
if I was carrying a gun. I was wearing a Tommy Bahama shirt worn not
tucked in and could have easily been carrying a concealed weapon.
Even though I knew why he had been instructed to do it, I asked him why he was doing it anyway. He replied, “Because of what happened in Colorado.”
I promptly removed his hands from inside my wife’s purse, walked back out to the ticket window and asked for a refund. The girl behind the window didn’t seem to grasp what I was asking for.
She said, “Are you saying you want your money back?”
Yes, I want my money back.
I think this was the first time any one had asked for their money back without even seeing the movie. She refunded our money and we went home. Well, I went home to get back to work, and Nancy went to the mall. Probably would have been cheaper for me if we had gone to the movie.
In all the years TSA has been inspecting people at the airports in the United States, they have not caught one terrorist. Now the movie theaters think they can catch terrorist. You cannot predict or stop a crazy person. But, now because he did this, this act of terror, once again, the innocent people and businesses will be inconvenienced with more infringement of their liberty. In fact, it would not surprise me if this is the straw that breaks the back of the movie, and specifically, the theater industry.
I wanted to tell that little guy at the movie theater, who was looking for terrorist, that if I had come in there armed and with evil intent, he would have been the first one to go. He wouldn’t have stopped anything.
I am also bothered by the fact that not one person in that Aurora theater was legally carrying a concealed weapon — not one!
But, one good thing has come out of this. Concealed weapon permit applications in Colorado and other parts of the country have sharply risen since the shooting.
Nancy and I decided to go to an afternoon movie. We don’t go to movies a lot, but when we do go, we like the nearly empty theaters you find during the weekdays.
Even though I knew why he had been instructed to do it, I asked him why he was doing it anyway. He replied, “Because of what happened in Colorado.”
I promptly removed his hands from inside my wife’s purse, walked back out to the ticket window and asked for a refund. The girl behind the window didn’t seem to grasp what I was asking for.
She said, “Are you saying you want your money back?”
Yes, I want my money back.
I think this was the first time any one had asked for their money back without even seeing the movie. She refunded our money and we went home. Well, I went home to get back to work, and Nancy went to the mall. Probably would have been cheaper for me if we had gone to the movie.
In all the years TSA has been inspecting people at the airports in the United States, they have not caught one terrorist. Now the movie theaters think they can catch terrorist. You cannot predict or stop a crazy person. But, now because he did this, this act of terror, once again, the innocent people and businesses will be inconvenienced with more infringement of their liberty. In fact, it would not surprise me if this is the straw that breaks the back of the movie, and specifically, the theater industry.
I wanted to tell that little guy at the movie theater, who was looking for terrorist, that if I had come in there armed and with evil intent, he would have been the first one to go. He wouldn’t have stopped anything.
I am also bothered by the fact that not one person in that Aurora theater was legally carrying a concealed weapon — not one!
But, one good thing has come out of this. Concealed weapon permit applications in Colorado and other parts of the country have sharply risen since the shooting.
Friday’s shooting at an Aurora movie theater may be prompting a spike in concealed weapons permit applications to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, while the presidential election season seems to be driving up the sales of firearms.This is the way you fight terrorism and those that would strike at your liberty, property and life. Take responsibility for your own safety and the safety of your family. If you don’t want to arm yourself with a gun, then at least carry a pepper spray or a Taser. But, do something.
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said Tuesday that applications for the right to carry a concealed weapon are up sharply since a gunman killed 12 and injured 58 at the Century Aurora 16 movie theater.
