The Rude Pundit: Man Who Shot Movie Theater Texter Is Using "Stand Your Ground" Defense ...

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

42. It is easy to take sides from afar and more-so easy to sum it all up passing judgment.

Apparently the cell phone tex ting issue was taken up with the manager who as it seems blew the complaint off.
What's the big deal eh. So the sign says no cell phone use in the theater and no guns. what does the word violation mean to a cop or x cop ? It's just a question. But no guns too. The pot the kettle.
But the x cop carried a gun on his person all his professional life. To complete the dress ,yer watch, yer ring ,yer wallet ,yer phone,yer weapon-piece ,perhaps yer hat and coat.All things fall in line accordingly.

A retired SWAT team Capitan. Oh but of of course there is no such thing as PT SD. But really there is isn't there ? 71 yrs. of age- perhaps a little early onset -dementia ? Maybe the early warning signs are unrealized ?

What if the victim had gone off into the lobby, finished his tex ting ,just because the old guy for some reason was annoyed and given his age the texter figured ,oh well ,age privilege all that?

If the common sense thing had happened ,nobody will have been shot on that day in that theater.

You know, sort of defuse the situation,on the count of after all,the movie hadn't yet begun and better to calm the waters than it is to raise the state of the sea to a hurricane state,that would be more than a state 5.

Or with his what 7 or 9 years in the Navy maybe the guy just resented the authoritarian thing-you know,the senior chief petty officers that run the show in the Navy. So it turned into a road rage thing where one is as bad as the other and another joined in to hype it up even more.

Sure push the old guy over edge, does that seem to add up to something of a possible scenario ?

What we know is that the shooting most likely would not have happened if the right things were done by the right people at the right time. My guess is the situation could have been very easily defused with the application of just a little common sense applied accordingly.

I see it as more of a road rage incident gone nuclear.
Don't mad bombers sometimes use cell phones as remote detonation devices ?
Thought occurs as I might wonder about some of the things passing through the old guy's mind as the heat intensifies.

But hay, 71's not so old is it ?
Safe be it to say it wasn't an accident but is sure as hell is an incident isn't it ?

And really nobody here was there when it all went down right ?