[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Bonnevie

well one would hope that the time it would take for the person to leave, get in his car, and maybe listen to his wife (hopefully) would have given him the time needed to realize he was over-reacting. It just seems to me, that a lot of these incidents, (George Zimmerman, a man in Clearwater who came out to yell at skateboarders and killed his neighbors) are because people had guns when they didn't need them.

I came from a family of police officers. They never wanted to pull a gun because they are trained not to do so unless they intend to use it. And there may be a different breed of police these days. Certainly the job has gotten more difficult. In my father's day the police were respected and people obeyed them. Now they taunt and insult them and if they react at all get complaints filed.

This man was 71 and may have had some age related dementia or something that caused him to reach that degree of anger. I mean the guy was texting during the previews....not the film itself and to become so infuriated to resort to that all the while he sat there breaking the law by having a gun there....

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I read that he went out to his car and got the gun and came back in and shot. Why didn't that give him time to think about it and hopefully listen to his wife?

My father was also a police officer. He never shot anyone nor do I recall anyone in his department over the 25 years that he worked there ever shoot anyone. Yet, they all had guns. I