Ok guys, I just saw this thread and wanted to clear some mis information up that you are seeing in the media. I'm a family friend of the victim. 1) there was popcorn thrown. It was from the back of the theatre from another movie goer telling them both to sit down once it began escalating.2 chad wasn't texting, he was reading sports on his phone from the corner of his thigh during previews3 the first interaction was the old man telling him to put his F@&$ing phone away. Chad is hot headed and told the guy to go f himself.Just wanted to clear that up.
I agree with the others. I am 100% behind stronger background checks but since a police officer can obtain arms with little fuss in 50 states in the union there isn't much we can do. In Europe you have to be military or police pass a lot of gun tests (taking apart a gun and putting it together, shooting) and psychological. But it is entirely possible this retired police officer would have passed European standards and this tragedy would still have unfolded.
Ok guys, I just saw this thread and wanted to clear some mis information up that you are seeing in the media. I'm a family friend of the victim. 1) there was popcorn thrown. It was from the back of the theatre from another movie goer telling them both to sit down once it began escalating.2 chad wasn't texting, he was reading sports on his phone from the corner of his thigh during previews3 the first interaction was the old man telling him to put his F@&$ing phone away. Chad is hot headed and told the guy to go f himself.Just wanted to clear that up.
Thank you for the info and this is a sad situation all around.
TAMPA, FL – A few weeks before a texting dispute turned deadly inside a Florida theater, suspect Curtis Reeves had another run-in with a moviegoer, prosecutors said.During Reeves’ first court appearance on Tuesday, prosecutors said they had heard from another theater patron who said the 71-year-old former Tampa cop saw her texting and “glared at her the entire time throughout the movie” during a screening about three weeks ago.When the woman got up to use the restroom, Reeves followed her and “made her very uncomfortable,” prosecutors said.CNN affiliate WTSP later identified the woman as Jamira Dixon of Wesley Chapel, the Tampa suburb where Monday’s shooting took place.“He became just upset about the whole situation and kept staring and kept giving us dirty looks,” Dixon told the station.Dixon said she first heard about Monday’s shooting on the radio while she was driving.“I had to pull over the car because … it could have been us,” she said. “It was just so close to home. It really makes you think how things could have went.” http://fox2now.com/2014/01/15/prosecutors-this-wasnt-the-first-blow-up-for-florida-theater-shooter-curtis-reeve/ This guy has a serious problem with people who text. I guess he wont be bothered with that anymore where he's going.
I was in a theater once when my friend threw his popcorn at a girl sitting near us. We were 15. The cop panicked and is done for, the guy who threw the popcorn sounds like a **CENSORED**.
Apparently the shooter has done the same thing before to others. A couple came forward and had an incident with the old man recently at the same theater.Any gun toting person care to address the issue of an old and senile person packing heat?
I'm still not calling the shooter senile. Two different topics. Did I not separate them enough? I guess one could take that away but I was talking in general. How do we keep guns out of the hands of older gun owners with a diminishing capacity? Simple question.
