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Of course, by federal law, retired law enforcement officer who meet certain conditions are permitted to concealed carry. It's just ordinary citizens who can be restricted from doing so in order to protect the public. I wonder who protects the public from retired LEO's?
What was the movie?................
To serve, protect and defend-—yeh, right.
I’m withholding judgment. I don’t trust that the media has given us the whole story.
In a just world, he'd be hung from the neck until dead in front of the county courthouse.
There was an article on FR earlier today about an old guy attacking a wheelchair bound man in Walmart for going through the 20 item express lane with 22 items.
Hell, I would give him a noose, a razor blade, and a bottle of potassium cyanide and save the state the expense of trying and housing him.
Yeah, people are killed or seriously injured by thrown popcorn on a daily basis. </sarcasm>
Kept texting and apparently popcorn was thrown. It is going to take a while before the aphorisim that “an armed society is a polite society” takes effect at a day-to-day cultural level.
Cops should not be allowed to carry firearms, and retired cops should be required to pass psychological exams to determine if they are fit to return to normal human status.
I take the cops side in this. All the guy had to do was shut off his damn cellphone. He got increasingly belligerent and the ex-cop obviously felt threatened.
I’m sick and tired of belligerent bullies. Mean people suck. Don’t be an ass, you never know who you’re dealing with and what they have on them.
I like to consider the positive effect, in that maybe some idiots will think twice before texting, playing noisy games, or talking on cell-phones in a theater. Not unlike the way drivers suddenly became more polite to one another after that spate of CA freeway shootings.
People obviously don’t respect laws nor societal norms anymore, but having the possibility of your bad behavior result in some perturbed stranger drilling a hole in your head makes for a better, more agreeable society.
“I wonder who protects the public from retired LEO’s?”
Don’t know about retired LEOs, but the Founders organized Committees of Safety to protect themselves from the king’s henchmen. Those committees were quite effective. No reason we can’t do the same.
And in the state of Fla, as well as here in Michigan, so are your average citizens.........
Your argument could just as easily have been directed to a citizen who chose the same illegal course of action........
But he came back after a few minutes, without a manager and appearing upset. Moments later, the argument between the two men resumed, and the man in the front row stood up.
Officials said Mr Oulson asked Reeves if he reported him to management for using his phone.
Mr Cummings said the men started raising their voices and popcorn was thrown. Authorities said Reeves took out a gun, and Mr Oulson's wife put her hand over her husband, and that's when Reeves fired his weapon, striking Mrs Oulson in the hand and her husband in the chest.
So he left the theatre, got his gun and came back. That would make it 1st degree murder. Nice to be a cop.
Noit sure what 2nd degree murder penalty is in florida. Hopefully this hothead shooter will be put away for a long time.
Maybe the texting made “bleep bloop blap dingie” sounds that triggered the ex-LEO’s response.
PS - maybe his lawyer should get a change of venue to like, say, Fullerton,CA - cops got away there with beating a homeless guy to death while he was crying out for his dad (a former cop) - got the not guilty verdict.
I think this falls under the “Don’t mess with an old guy, he might just kill you” rule.
Texting a three year old?
She has a phone and can read?
BS