Why Does Anyone Take A Child Under The Age Of 13 To A Midnight Movie? [Vanity]

7/22/12 | self

[Lmo56]

Out of all of this horrible tragedy - I cannot help but ask myself the question.

The girl who was killed was 6 and there was a couple with 2 children aged 4 and under [thank God they were spared].

Not only was it past the childrens' bedtimes, but the content of the movie was wholly inappropriate for their ages.

If the mother of the 6 year-old had not taken her, she would still be alive. Just sayin' ...

[Dilbert San Diego]

In my opinion, the discussion of whether it’s appropriate to take young kids to a midnight movie, or to this violent Batman movie at all, should wait for another day. This horrific event is still too fresh in our minds. Let’s mourn the victims for now, and wait for another time to discuss this or get into the gun control debate.

[donna]

The victim’s parents, not the victim.

[Jonty30]

If I were a parent, I wouldn’t necessarily be against taking my child to a midnight matinee.

Once in a blue moon sort of event, sure.

[FreeAtlanta]

I have never understood taking children to these late movies. I have only been to one, and it was too much for these old bones. Taking a child to anything over 8pm is abuse, imho.

[TigerClaws]

Well put.

God forbid this poor woman a few months from now stumble across this thread.

Pray for the dead. Sad every tragedy results in political posturing, conspiracies, and judgment of the victims.

[bigtoona]

Also, kids didn’t shoot up schools until the 80’s. Why? Maybe its because nobody parents their children anymore. In the 1980’s more children started going to daycare and being raised by strangers vs being raised at home by family. And with that came permissive parenting like taking a 6 year old to a violent movie in the middle of the night.

[Impala64ssa]

As far as kids going to late night events, there were a few times when I was a kid my dear old Dad would take us to Shea stadium to see the Mets in a Twi-night double header and not get home till 2-3 in the morning. I guess it was a completely different time back then but as long as the kids were with their parents it wasn’t considered a big deal. Years later, I remember going with a bunch of freinds to midnight showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on a couple of occasions(before I realized what a leftwing a**hole Susan Sarandon is). Some teenagers would show up and we’d all get a little crazy but nothing like what happened in Aurora.

[FreeAtlanta]

I agree. I took my little ones to the last spiderman and it was a bad decision. This batman is clearly much worse. What are parents thinking? This is messing with our kids minds. It is making people like the fool who went on the rampage.

[tsowellfan]

Sadly the gun control debate has already started and has moved so fast that the democrats are actually planning on bringing the victims to Washington DC as soon as possible to DEMAND gun control laws.

It will be QUOTE "Most powerful lobby would be the parents,siblings,etc of victims of this shooting"

The democrats have finally found their issue for Election 2012. Secretly they are smiling and celebrate the fact that "The Joker" has delivered them an issue to stand for.

They will call Romney "heartless" for harping on economic issues during this healing process which should last until atleast the first tuesday in November. Then we can discuss other issues. But right now children are being killed by guns. That's their issue.

So, some can blame the parents who probably are forced to work two shifts a day for taking their children to see Batman but the democrats have something else to blame. Guns, NRA and Repubicans.

[FreeAtlanta]

No, I am not putting up with this nonsense. No one should be taking their children to movies this late. Yes, the shooter is the solitary blame for the evil killings, but taking babies to movies so late is POOR PARENTING.

It is stupid, and it is inductive of the downfall of our nation.

[Jonty30]

Daycare would be a far more significant factor than a midnight movie. Kids are not getting enough time with their parents for their parents to help form their morals, so they get their morals elsewhere.

Kids used to play cops and robbers. Violent games are as old as mankind. War games, with simulated torture, are also as old as mankind.

A movie is not going to cause people to go out and commit mass murder.

[latina4dubya]

when the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera came out, we took our 4- and 8-year old sons to the 10:30 p.m. showing on a weeknight... i homeschool and am with my kids all day, so i know them well... we all had such a wonderful time... it was a rare occasion... we had all seen the stage version previously... our boys were familiar with the music... every now and then we throw out our regular schedule for something special...

[bigtoona]

This is what I’m talking about, our culture has been so screwed up by the left wing that we have created an atmosphere where people go on these rampages. These shootings were extremely rare until the 80s and 90s

[Lmo56]

Maybe its because nobody parents their children anymore.

Agree. A lot of parents today seem to have forgotten that they have another one's life in their hands once they have a child.

They go off to do what they want to do, when they want to do it - regardless of the safety of the child.

Case in point, the guy who was recently arrested at a casino, spending 4 hours there, while his child was strapped in a car seat in the car in the parking lot ...

[HamiltonJay]

LIke I said, this nut could have just as easily done this at a 2pm matinee of a Pixar film.. folks playing blame the victim are idiots, wholey and collectively.

Had this nut decided to hit a chuck e cheese at 1pm would they be posting this crap?

Its nonsense. This happened, for one reason and one reason only, a pathetically small man decided he wanted to be a wolf among sheep and decided his sick perverse thrill was more valuable than the lives of other people, nothing more, nothing less.

Playing this blame the victim crap is beyond idiotic. Lets not focus the blame on who it should go on, the person who committed the crime, no lets blame something else for it.

Absolute, brain dead, liberal mush. Oh if only this guys 3rd grade teacher had been a little more understanding, those people wouldn’t be dead now... Same damned stupid argument! Same damned stupid logic.

Take the blame the victim mentality over to DU where it belongs.

[Daffynition]

Maybe if the parents had left them in the car...the movie was only for 2 3/4hrs.

[Lmo56]

Playing this blame the victim crap is beyond idiotic.

The parents showed damn poor judgement ...

[HamiltonJay]

Oh so I see, if your child is murdered you are not a victim of the act of that murderer? Interesting.. I’ll make sure to pass that on to ever mother and father of ever murder victim.

If you believe only the person killed is the victim of a murderer, I think you need to look up the meaning of the word victim. If that were true, tort law as we know it for things such as wrongful death could not exist.

[Lmo56]

See my post #35 ...