Hello Bob,   
      
    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   
      
    LL>> Moviegoers are not allowed to bring weapons into a theater.   
    LL>> Nor should they be allowed to do so.   
      
   BK>It's going to the point where it will be not only allowed, but   
   BK>necessary.   
      
   What about a sword?  I have a sword.  From civil war times.  It   
   is a bit rusty.  But still in one piece.  Would that be acceptable?   
      
    BK>> Or was there and he was busy running and hiding?   
      
    JM>> Could have been but I doubt it.   
      
    LL>> You cannot expect cops/security to present at every theater   
    LL>> in America, most especially during midnight movies.   
      
   BK>Why not?   
      
   Outside theaters, maybe.  But inside?  They would cause a riot.   
   Can't have that.  I mean, there are three things that moviegoers   
   fear -   
      
   1. Someone yells "Fire!" in a crowded theater.   
   2. Someone yells "Rape!" in a crowded theater.   
   3. Someone yells "Cops!" in a crowded theater.   
      
   In all three cases, bad things happen.   
   Usually by a crowd gone wild.   
      
    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?   
      
    LL>> Not the kind of grief that some others have suffered.  For   
    LL>> example, one of my friends (now deceased) was shot in the   
    LL>> head in Vietnam. He spent the next two and a half years in   
    LL>> hospitals, most of that time in a coma.  He spent the rest   
    LL>> of his life in constant pain, which is to say almost forty   
    LL>> years.  The amount of money spent by our government to have   
    LL>> kept him alive all those years should not be an issue.  Nor   
    LL>> should the amount of money spent to keep any of our other   
    LL>> citizens (whether veterans or scientists or teachers or   
    LL>> even homeless bums) alive be an issue.   
      
    LL>> The right to life is a RIGHT, not a privilege.   
      
   BK>Unless it costs Romneyites some money, then it becomes a burden.   
      
   Why should Romney care?  If it is *his* money, he might have   
   a point.  Not much of one, but still a point.  But if he is elected   
   president, it would be *our* money.  And we want our politicians to   
   spend our money on us, not on themselves.   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.06.00.00-gb   
    * Origin: news://felten.yi.org (2:203/2)