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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....
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I agree with your thought that he might have had some age related dementia. I thought that right from the beginning. Many become belligerent and act out of character......not their normal selves.
I also thought he might have been on some type of new pharmaceutical which also "might" have affected his behavior or anger tolerance level.
At our age, none of us like the constant ringing of cell phones or need to text.......but it is what the younger people do. It is NOT A REASON TO TAKE A LIFE.
When I saw that family photo of the wife, the husband and their three year old daughter, I immediately thought of our son, his wife and their 2 and a half year old daughter, and one year old daughter.
I can just see "Daddy" perhaps answering a text that the babysitter and 2 year old sent to mommy and daddy at the theatre. You should see these young toddlers work their way around a cell phone, I-pad, etc......just a matter of fact thing for them. They learned to navigate from babyhood.
Who knows really if the daughter texted him first (with the help of her babysitter) or the dad promised to let the little girl know when they arrived at the theatre. It's all instant communication and constant communication among that age group nowadays.
A very very sad and tragic story. Yes, the 71 year old will get a life sentence....no matter how many years the judge gives him. But, the young dad is dead, for no good reason.......the mom's hand is injured and who knows what nerve damage was done via the shot through her hand when she was trying to protect her husband, a natural instinct.....and the beautiful little girl is fatherless.
Too many angry outbursts all over our country nowadays, for no good reasons.