According to Scoot from WWL-AM870, we’re responsible for the actions of a crazy ex-cop who shot an unarmed texter in a movie theater.
Sadly, there are many Americans who are gun-happy and they are not criminals until they allow their overzealous attitudes about guns to hijack their rational thinking.
Where is the NRA and where are the gun-rights advocates when it comes to stupidity among those who promote carrying weapons everywhere? This is a fact – if 71-year-old Curtis Reeves did not take a gun into the movie theater with him, then 45-year-old Chad Oulson would not be dead and his wife and other innocent bystanders would not have witnessed a horrific shooting at a movie theater! Reeves used a gun to protect himself against popcorn??? I’d like to think that retire cops are tough enough to deal with popcorn being thrown at them. If not, then there should be some reconsideration of the training of police officers.
Source: http://www.wwl.com/Scoot-Blog-Will-gun-rights-advocates-denounce-reti/13069478?pid=376456
I see, so if Curtis Reeves had used a knife to kill Chad, you’d be blaming the National Knife Association. If he had used a baseball bat, the National Bat Association would be blamed. Oh wait, people don’t blame knives and bats when bad guys use them, so why guns?
Reeves is an INDIVIDUAL, only he is responsible for his actions, and I don’t remember the NRA encouraging gun owners to violate gun laws, including stupid “Gun-Free” signs. I’ve also don’t remember being encouraged to shoot innocent people, so your beef with the NRA is ridiculous.
This mentality is not reserved for retired police officers. The real question is – would the 71-year-old retired cop have gotten into a heated confrontation with the younger 45-year-old man if he didn’t have a gun? I doubt it.
I see, so we should get rid of our 2nd Amendment because Scoot assumes guns make people murder people. I don’t remember Jack the Ripper shooting prostitutes, you know. Get a clue, Scoot, that 71-year-old cop is a psychopath, it’s irrelevant whether he had a gun or a knife or a tire iron or a sturdy cane. Psychopaths don’t care about gun-free zones nor comply with gun control laws. In fact, I’m willing to bet that as a cop he was trained in armed and unarmed fighting techniques.
The Second Amendment protects our rights to bear arms for protection – not to bear arms for the purpose of giving us confidence that we would not otherwise have if we didn’t have a gun. Gun rights advocates should denounce this use of a gun to gain credibility on their side of the gun-control debate. Silence equals hypocrisy.
And if anyone felt like they needed a gun to go to a local movie theater – why would they even go?
Yes, and I have the right to protect myself from crazy ex-cops by carrying a gun. Gun rights advocate don’t need to denounce him, that cop was not one of us. Show me his NRA or GOA membership card? It’s no secret that some cops are enemies of the 2nd Amendment, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reeves was a supporter of gun control and felt that only special people like him should be entitled to keep and bear arms. Yet do I demand that the Brady bastards and the Bloomberg’s and the Moms Demand Fascism apologize for him? No, because I have no evidence of who Reeves was, thus I wait until all the facts emerge before accusing people.
Furthermore, I don’t give a crap about having credibility among gun haters. That’s like Jews worrying about offending anti-Semites or Blacks telling each other “let’s watch what we say lest we offend the Klan.” Sorry Scott, your words mean piss and sh-t to me. Besides, people like you never believe us anyway, so why try to convince you?
As for your last question, it’s not a need, it’s a right. Period. I go everywhere I can with my gun, and when I can’t carry my gun, I leave it in my car. So if someone ever breaks into my car and steals my gun, I’m not gonna feel guilty about it, I didn’t create the gun-free zones that made me keep my gun in the car.
Crime can happen anywhere, and those of us who value our lives, property and sacred honor will do what to defend ourselves everywhere.
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Gregory Smith