Hello John,   
      
   >JM>Or one armed civilian with the training to properly handle   
   >JM>a firearm.   
      
   >BK>With all the guns in this society, why wasn't there even one   
   >BK>person with a concealed carry permit and a handgun?   
      
   JM>Don't know   
      
   Moviegoers are not allowed to bring weapons into a theater.   
   Nor should they be allowed to do so.   
      
   >BK>Or was there and he was busy running and hiding?   
      
   JM>Could have been but I doubt it.   
      
   You cannot expect cops/security to present at every theater   
   in America, most especially during midnight movies.   
      
   >JM>So have thousands war vets, street mugging victims and   
   >JM>plane crash survivors but I suspect most have put their   
   >JM>personal incident behind them and moved on with their   
   >JM>lives.   
      
   >BK>You suspect wrong.   
      
   JM>Like you would know.   
      
   I have met several homeless vets on the street.  Many of them   
   have lifelong injuries and/or mental problems.  Getting shot or   
   shot at is not something that one easily forgets.  Especially   
   by those who have lost an arm and/or a leg (or worse).   
      
   >JM>Time for the majority of those Colorado people to,   
   >JM>as they say, put your big girl panties on and get over it.   
      
   >BK>Oh what tought talk. Until you have been there you don't know.   
      
   JM>You saying I've never had a personal tragedy or experienced grief?   
      
   Not the kind of grief that some others have suffered.  For example,   
   one of my friends (now deceased) was shot in the head in Vietnam.   
   He spent the next two and a half years in hospitals, most of that   
   time in a coma.  He spent the rest of his life in constant pain,   
   which is to say almost forty years.  The amount of money spent by   
   our government to have kept him alive all those years should not   
   be an issue.  Nor should the amount of money spent to keep any   
   of our other citizens (whether veterans or scientists or teachers   
   or even homeless bums) alive be an issue.   
      
   The right to life is a RIGHT, not a privilege.   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
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