After being hit in the shoulder by a bag of buttered popcorn -- LOL???
This retired cop has also had years of training shooting from a holster or pocket.
Yep -- training to draw his weapon when hit with a bag of buttered popcorn. I'm sure that's somewhere in their training.
It does not show premeditation is shows preparedness just as he has been taught as a cop to do for all of his career.
Yep I'm sure every cop is prepared to shoot at a moment's notice -- a dog barking, a kid answering the door, a kid turning sideways, a bag of popcorn in your face --
Cops are Taught to Have their hand on their sidearm.
That's funny because he was retired and guns were not permitted in the theatre and he knew it and the other cop in the theatre who is active duty didn't have his hand on his gun or even his gun on him.
He went with what he was taught.
Yeh shoot first at anybody who doesn't bow down to you and then make up a reason later.
Incidentally his daughter said that he usually carried a 22 but for some reason that day decided to pack a 38. I 'm guessing that he wanted to make sure that he had enough firepower for the texter that he ran into that day.
Retired cops in most states are exempt from many, most, or all of the carry laws.
Where is the unlearn button located on any retired cops body??? You seem to believe that the minute they retire they automatically unlearn all the tactical knowledge and patterning that they have learned for decades. Please explain how that is done.
What you want us to believe is that when a cop retires they just forget everything they have been taught. This is impossible but you want us to believe the impossible.
Trying to divert the discussion to dogs or anything else is called a straw man argument. It is usually employed when one can't discuss the facts of the pertinent argument logically. I do not go there. You're out of ammo.
Your points in this discussion are not accurate, or correct.