Out of the Blue

[Jul 20, 2012, 10:35 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

MrsBlue is home from work today, which should have provided a perfect opportunity to continue the discussion of whether to pop an air conditioner into one of the windows in the living room. That is, of course, if it wasn't for the rainstorm that has taken the local temperature down to 66°F at the moment, which I'm pretty sure is not going to help my argument. As usual, the key to life is timing.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 20, 2012, 23:00

Matshock

Cutter wrote on Jul 20, 2012, 20:50: I love the comments from the gun nuts saying nothing like this would occur if everyone else was armed. Oh yeah, that's exactly what I want in a dark theater of panicked people running around, everyone whipping out Glocks and shooting at anything that moves. Yeah, I could see how that'd work out well for everyone. I guess the TSA will now be coming to America's theaters, theme parks and school next. And of course then they have to go after the religious angle, 'Why did this happen?' Um, maybe because some people just snap. None of us are that far off from it. That's all insanity is, just saying yes to the wrong impulse. All it takes is the right set of conditions before someone goes looney tunes. The guy's mom knew he was a nutcase with a fixation on violence for some time now. You want a reason? Ask her. All the other media hype is just that. As for guns, it's entirely possible that there weren't any others in the theater. The service people there have been banned from carrying during leave by our current President. OTOH if you want several documented instances of concealed carry holders stopping shootings it won't take long to find them. Nothing this big stopped yet though because thankfully it doesn't happen all that often. Anyhow, all of us that got in a car today had a much better chance of dying horribly in traffic than running into a homicidal maniac, so I'm not going to worry too much about this unless it happens a lot more often.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Jul 20, 10:42	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	31.	Jul 21, 04:52	Re: Out of the Blue	The Half Elf
	32.	Jul 21, 07:27	Re: Out of the Blue	Bet
	2.	Jul 20, 10:43	14 Killed At "Knight Rises" Screening.	kanniballl
	3.	Jul 20, 10:48	14 Killed At "Knight Rises" Screening	Hyatus
	4.	Jul 20, 10:50	Re: 14 Killed At	kanniballl
	6.	Jul 20, 13:08	Re: 14 Killed At	xXBatmanXx
	7.	Jul 20, 13:12	Re: 14 Killed At	kanniballl
	10.	Jul 20, 14:18	Re: 14 Killed At	mch
	11.	Jul 20, 14:19	Re: 14 Killed At	kanniballl
	5.	Jul 20, 11:55	Re: Out of the Blue	Mashiki Amiketo
	8.	Jul 20, 13:34	Re: Out of the Blue	Wallshadows
	9.	Jul 20, 14:16	Re: Out of the Blue	Bet
	12.	Jul 20, 15:30	Re: Out of the Blue	Jivaro
	13.	Jul 20, 15:42	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	14.	Jul 20, 15:56	Re: Out of the Blue	Agent.X7
	15.	Jul 20, 16:03	Re: Out of the Blue	Raven
	16.	Jul 20, 16:09	Re: Out of the Blue	xmb1121
	17.	Jul 20, 17:08	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	18.	Jul 20, 19:03	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	20.	Jul 20, 20:19	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	22.	Jul 20, 21:51	Re: Out of the Blue	Jivaro
	23.	Jul 20, 22:05	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	19.	Jul 20, 19:53	It came from DMC 12	space captain
	21.	Jul 20, 20:50	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
>>	24.	Jul 20, 23:00	Re: Out of the Blue	Matshock
	25.	Jul 21, 00:22	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
	26.	Jul 21, 00:52	Re: Out of the Blue	Matshock
	27.	Jul 21, 01:04	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	28.	Jul 21, 01:24	Re: Out of the Blue	Matshock
	36.	Jul 22, 10:34	Re: Out of the Blue	Fang
	37.	Jul 22, 13:58	Re: Out of the Blue	Matshock
	38.	Jul 22, 15:45	Re: Out of the Blue	Prez
	39.	Jul 22, 17:24	Re: Out of the Blue	Matshock
	40.	Jul 22, 20:40	Re: Out of the Blue	Prez
	29.	Jul 21, 01:46	Re: Out of the Blue	Prez
	30.	Jul 21, 04:27	Re: Out of the Blue	Ventura
	33.	Jul 21, 08:25	Re: Out of the Blue	Mr. Tact
	34.	Jul 21, 11:31	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	35.	Jul 21, 13:36	Re: Out of the Blue	Mr. Tact