Gun control calls follow shooting, but few expect major changes

The Hill ^ | 07/21/12 | Jordy Yager and Mike Lillis

[Erik Latranyi]

If the the assailant is standing up at the front of the theater to begin his rampage, there would be quite a hail of “caliber salad” being tossed his way.

This is the flaw in your thinking.

He did not just stand there. He walked up the aisles shooting people.

Second, I would like to see the responsible firearm owner who is going to pull the trigger in a theater full of bright white smoke, people running everywhere and over each other, while your eyes are burning and you are coughing uncontrollably.

Would you try? Maybe.

You might try when he is on top of you.

Would you shoot as a distraction so your family/friends can get away? Perhaps.

Would a 9mm hit on body armor stun someone on a large dose of vicodin? Maybe.

Too many think of stationary targets, clear skies and no chaos going on around you.

This was designed to reduce the threat from anyone who was carrying.

Not a level playing field.

[LibLieSlayer]

Go ahead you communist pukes... start another Civil War... you will not like it this time. It will be between Patriots and traitors this time.

LLS

[gitmo]

I’ve wondered how effective an armed movie-goer would have been.

The theater was dark. It filled with tear gas (and some other gas) before anyone know what was happening.

The attacker had bullet proof armor over most of his body. But the ccw defender wouldn’t be able to tell that in the poor lighting conditions.

Probably the best shot was through the gas mask, but would a ccw holder have been able to (a) know that and (b) see the vulnerable spot through teared eyes?

Nevertheless, an armed movie goer has a much better chance of stopping this man than an unarmed one.

[gitmo]

Where are the calls to ban movie theaters? Those people could have been watching Batman in the safety of their living rooms.

[gitmo]

About 20 years ago a ticked off loon set fire to an after-hours disco/bar in NYC, and killed a bunch more than any shooter. Just used a can of gasoline at the door.

So what's your point? They're already working on banning gasoline. That problems solved, too. < /lib>

[Average Al]

Well it is easy to second guess an event we weren’t involved in. After all the other attacks I was hoping
people would be a little more heroic, yet we have to
take in to account most of the audience was probably
very young and took this as part of the movie premier
at first.

[opentalk]

They (MSM and left) didn’t give this much attention to the Fort Hood shooting. Its what’s serves their agenda. They keep delaying that trial.

[opentalk]

And they passed gun control in Australia.

Soros influence involved.

[Lady Jag]

1991 was the Luby’s Restaurant massacre in Killeen, TX, where a man drove his pickup through restaurant windows and shot diners indiscriminately, killing 23 and wounding 20 others.

That night a spurned boyfriend tossed a molotov cocktail into a nightclub his girlfriend was patronizing, killing 32.

News of the shooting was everywhere, radio, TV, everywhere.

News of the molotov cocktail was a one inch mention in my local newspaper.

That, my friend is typical propaganda.

[archy]

I’ve wanted to put captions on pics for a decade. Now, I am unleashed.

What, you didn't have Photomax?

[thulldud]

...proving that Planned Parenthood is 38 times more dangerous than the National Rifle Association.

Good one...I would just point out that the NRA doesn't actually shoot anybody. PP, OTOH....