Man Arrested After Gun Brought Into Theater

[Ted]

A man was arrested and nine theaters were evacuated after someone carried a gun into a multiplex in Colorado, police said.

Mapes told the Denver Post he has a concealed weapons permit issued by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office in 2003.

Man Arrested After Gun Brought Into Theater - ABC News

 

[jblomenberg16]

And so it begins...

 

[GBuck]

This is absolutely ridiculous. People are actually so stupid that they evacuated NINE theaters because one man was legally carrying a gun?! He was sitting in the theater for 15 minutes before police came to save everyone? Seriously? These people should all be required to take mandatory "therapy" to teach them the real rules of guns and laws of their state.

 

[Indysioux]

Crazy stuff

 

[Expat]

So if idiots panic, you can be charged with frightening them. What a crazy world we live in...

 

[rhino]

If they did that in Indiana every time someone had a gun in the theater, no films would ever get played in their entirety ever again.

 

[Ted]

From the Denver Post: Man arrested after bringing gun into Thornton movie theater - The Denver Post

He was booked on suspicion of "possession of a dangerous weapon," in violation of municipal ordinance 38-237, police said.

Wait.....What?

 

[Vladislas]

It was going to happen we all know it . Time for a ankle holster.

 

[Miketodd]

I wonder if he will pursue litigation against the law enforcement agency.

 

[rhino]

From the Denver Post: Man arrested after bringing gun into Thornton movie theater - The Denver Post

Wait.....What?

Isn't that kind of like getting arrested for "attempted speeding"?

 

[Ted]

Isn't that kind of like getting arrested for "attempted speeding"?

I would compare it more to being arrested for attempted lewd conduct, just because someone touched their pant's zipper.

 

[rhino]

I would compare it more to being arrested for attempted lewd conduct, just because someone touched their pant's zipper.

Inside of a bathroom stall!

 

[Ted]

Inside of a bathroom stall!

Pervert.

 

[Paco Bedejo]

What.The.Actual.****?

 

[CathyInBlue]

Prosecutors were reviewing the case involving Mapes and the charges might be dropped if they determine he was complying with Colorado's concealed carry law that allows people who pass background checks and get training to carry guns in most circumstances, Barnes said.

Translation: Oh $#!%! We'd better play this very close to the vest or we're getting slapped with a false arrest/harassment suit.

 

[OWGEM]

To walk into a theater with a visible firearm of any kind a week after 70 people were shot in a theater, in the same state, well that is foolishness at best. It also suggests nothing more than attention seeking. Pretty juvenile if you ask me.

He asked for trouble and got it. Legal or not. He may claim he was standing up for his rights, I'm not buying it.

 

[GBuck]

To walk into a theater with a visible firearm of any kind a week after 70 people were shot in a theater, in the same state, well that is foolishness at best. It also suggests nothing more than attention seeking. Pretty juvenile if you ask me.

He asked for trouble and got it. Legal or not. He may claim he was standing up for his rights, I'm not buying it.

He also stated that he has carried there, in that manner, many times previously. Doesn't really seem like he was seeking attention.

 

[XDinmyXJ]

If they did that in Indiana every time someone had a gun in the theater, no films would ever get played in their entirety ever again.

This! Mine is always with me at theaters.

 

[Ted]

To walk into a theater with a visible firearm of any kind a week after 70 people were shot in a theater, in the same state, well that is foolishness at best. It also suggests nothing more than attention seeking. Pretty juvenile if you ask me.

He asked for trouble and got it. Legal or not. He may claim he was standing up for his rights, I'm not buying it.

That type of logic would have gotten me arrested for driving a U-Haul truck in Oklahoma City in 1995.

 

[9mmfan]

To walk into a theater with a visible firearm of any kind a week after 70 people were shot in a theater, in the same state, well that is foolishness at best. It also suggests nothing more than attention seeking. Pretty juvenile if you ask me.

He asked for trouble and got it. Legal or not. He may claim he was standing up for his rights, I'm not buying it.

I carried my EDC into a theater this past weekend, kind of CC/OC, with the entire bottom of the holster showing. Was I doing that to show off? Cause a seen? No, I just went about my normal weekend schedule, which this past weekend was seeing Prometheus. Why should I change my daily habits?
Perhaps if a couple people in the terrible Colorado shooting had shot back at the **cking scum bag wouldn't have killed and shot all those people.
I think he might have lost is concentrating with bullets hitting HIM too.