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Old 07-25-2015, 10:21 AM
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The number of movie tickets sold in the U.S. last year was 1.34 BILLION (WSJ). Your odds of getting shot in a theater remain vanishingly low.

And of course with ticket sales actually trending slightly downward, the last thing operators are going to want to do is feed an irrational fear of theaters.
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Old 07-25-2015, 10:27 AM
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And why these shooters only men? Don't women have psychological problems too.
I think this explains it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrCBcrFMCI
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Old 07-25-2015, 10:31 AM
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The number of movie tickets sold in the U.S. last year was 1.34 BILLION (WSJ). Your odds of getting shot in a theater remain vanishingly low.

And of course with ticket sales actually trending slightly downward, the last thing operators are going to want to do is feed an irrational fear of theaters.
Just place a glass case in every theater with a loaded, ready to fire (safety off ) 9 Mil in it with a hammer on a chain with the words "Break Glass In Case Of Bad Guy With A Gun."

The NRA would approve and a glass case does not draw pension benefits. It would have to work on the honor system. A bad guy is not allowed to break the glass of course. They sign a waiver before the movie starts.
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Old 07-25-2015, 11:00 AM
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Different physiology, different instinctive aggression strategies.
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Old 07-25-2015, 11:02 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/theater-gunman...64509522.html#

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In 2014, facing eviction from his Alabama home, John Russell Houser set out to make sure no one else could ever live in that house. He poured concrete down the drains and cemented the fuse box shut. He splattered paint and human waste all over the walls.
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The new owners found Houser had it booby-trapped: the gas starter tube in the fireplace was twisted out and ignited, the logs removed. "He was hoping the house would catch on fire. That's what the investigators told me," said Norman Bone, 77, who had bought the house for his daughter.
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Since the early '90s, he had built a reputation as an oddball. It was then that he regularly appeared on a local television show, appearing opposite a Democrat as a radical Republican railing against women in the workplace and calling for violence against abortion providers.
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In April 2001, the LaGrange mayor and city council voted to revoke all of Houser's alcoholic beverage pouring licenses based on five convictions of selling alcohol to minors in the span of a year from 1999 to 2000, according to a court filing. Houser appealed, but the court found the mayor and council acted correctly.
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Houser flew a large Confederate flag on a flagpole outside his house for a time, said neighbor Rick Chancey, but Houser later replaced it with a smaller rebel battle flag.
Heritage not Hate, I'm sure.

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Old 07-25-2015, 11:18 AM
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Maybe some of those concerned citizens that have volunteered to guard recruiting stations would also be willing to serve as movie theater guards.
Of course this would be a non paid position, but they would get to watch the movie free.

No thanks..being a fat old white person myself I do not want to be reminded of it by sitting next to other fat old white people.
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Old 07-25-2015, 11:24 AM
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Yeah, we do. But, I'm never going to shut up, so get used to it.
In no way am I asking anyone to shut up. Not my style. Of course, I expect the same treatment.
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Old 07-25-2015, 11:44 AM
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Different physiology, different instinctive aggression strategies.
Sorry, the right answer that women need no frigging guns to get even. Men do.
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Old 07-25-2015, 12:16 PM
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You can't reason with the NRA. It is like talking to someone in a rubber room. They sounds reasonable and sane, until you notice the
upholstery on the wall.

It is easy to be abstract when of course it is not your child lying dead on the floor.
With Ted and Wayne, who's sounding reasonable and sane?

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Old 07-25-2015, 02:22 PM
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So, if a good guy in a theater happens to shoot my kid or my wife and kill them, what then? Murder one as they carried a weapon planning on using it? Let me kill one of their relatives, my choice......?
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