Profit before People

[Sandy]

I've thought, since the first mega-multi screen theaters were built in the Houston area when I lived there, that they were accidents waiting to happen. The two closest to us, one with 16 screens, one with 24, were cheaply built, you could hear the sound from the next theater through the walls. They have exits out of each theater directly to the outside, not just as fire escapes, but to help disperse the crowds more quickly, to keep the traffic down that was coming inside. What you have is a place out in public where a thousand or more people gather every night, with a large parking area, very little (if any) inside or outside security, operated by a staff made up mainly of high school students.

The two mega theaters in our area of the Houston suburbs became purse snatching paradises shortly after they opened, and one of them was plagued with assaults and rapes. It seemed that every time we went, there were fender benders in the overcrowded parking lot, and cars streaming all around looking for spots, while people streamed out of the theaters, walking in and among the cars. Sometimes, they didn't have enough staff on duty to clean the theater after each showing.

So I am not surprised that someone loaded with automatic weapons and tear gas cannisters could prop open a door, get inside, and fire away. A cheap door alarm or a security guard on each side of the theater with exits could have prevented last night's shooting spree in Colorado.

[Tim Bonney]

[Sandy]

[Tim Bonney]

[Matto]

[KeithE]

A society that really wanted to minimize violence, would not allow violent video games or violent movies that celebrate those that kill human beings. Too many of our people become anesthetized to killing and/or fantasize about being like the hero in many of these games/movies.

I also would not allow semi-automatic or hand gun purchases despite how some people interpret the 2nd Amendment. It was for militias before we had a military! Since hunting has become a sport, I’ll would reluctantly allow licensing of hunting rifles (1 per person).

Yes I know it’s not going to happen. But Christ-followers are to be “bringing on the Kingdom of God”.

[Matto]

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[Matto]

[Tim Bonney]

[Haruo]

Wait a minute, what about the right of all schoolkids to keep nuclear weapons in their bedrooms as long as their parents don't find out. It's in the Constitution.

[Tim Bonney]

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: So Tim are you suggesting that the founding fathers intended to limit the bearing of arms to mussel loaders of their day? Who gets to drar the line and where? Don't get me wrong I see no good reason for private citizens to own weapons such as the AR 15 but again the old cliche "it is not the gun but the person who pulls the tiger" is true. As I am typing the TV has a report that most if not all of the dead in the Colorado theater where shot with a Glock Pistol not the AR 15. We need to have even better screening of those buying guns and ammunition.

[Tim Bonney]

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: Tim, when you say "Its not the gun" is so much bull Ed because it doesn't take into account scale of destruction. If someone doesn't have an assault rifle they can't do the same damage." You seem to be forgetting Timothy McViegh and the Oklahoma City bombing. And as to a private citizen buying a fighter plane, Have you cot the cash? See; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ghter.html

[Matto]

The right to bear arms was not the right to bear small arms. This Right was recognized so that citizens have a sufficient and comparable defense against tyrannical government.
If the British had mortars, cannon, and war vessels, the citizen also had rights to these as a defense. In the end the French provided the American colonists with these weapons, so the Americans were more evenly matched against the British.

The unarmed syrian people were cut down in the streets by their own government grenade launchers, tanks, artillery and 50 caliber machine guns were used against them.

In China tanks, grenades and machine guns were used against unarmed civilians. If the people had arms to defend themselves the Chinese government would not have even attempted killing them at all.
Only an advanced civilization recognizes the Right to bear arms, it puts the ultimate responsibility and guardianship of the people rights into the hands of the people.

Those in America who argue against the right to bear arms, argue against their right to exist, since it was this very right that allowed them to exist as a great nation.

When British troops were dispatched to capture the shot and powder factories, it was the citizens that repelled them. These were mostly young boys and teenagers with muskets, because a more organized force could not be put together in time. These young people formed a militia instantaneously because they bore arms.
If the British did take these factories then it may have stopped America existing at all.

The right to bear arms is a right that all free people should recognize.

[Haruo]

With an oyster-loader you don't even need to pull the tiger.

[MJ Willett]

[Matto]

[Matto]

[Sandy]

[Dave Roberts]

[Tim Bonney]

I'm not surprised David. When the criminals are better armed and armored than the average police officer we are in a bad situation.

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