A witness told KOB 4 the shooting happened during a showing of “No Hard Feelings.” [More]
That’s pretty ironic. It’s also a reason why if I want to see a movie, I have a big flat-screen TV with all the comforts of home. In addition to snacks and drinks for a fraction of what you pay at the counter, I get to be selective about who sits next to me.
If Cinemark has a “No Guns” policy they keep it well-hidden, plus I don’t see a sign posted on their front door.
And in the No Fool Like an Old Fool Department, I see a retired “Authorized Journalist” grousing about “He is 19 and his gun is totally legal” without documenting that it was and ignoring that in New Mexico you have to be 21 to get a concealed carry permit, and then trailing off into the same old lying nonsense about “well regulated militias” the antis have been using for decades to deny an individual right to keep and bear arms…
[Via Steve T]
“… well regulated militias …”
Paraphrasing our old friend, Inigo Montoya:
“They keep using that phrase, I don’t think it means what they think it means.”
To the founders, you know, those old dead white guys who created the phrase, a “well regulated militia” was one drawn from the great mass of the people, that was schooled in the military arts, was self supporting and self equipped, trained in the military arts, lead by officers elected from their own ranks, and capable of defending themselves, their families, and their communities from attacks by native Americans, foreign powers, and usurpations of their creator endowed rights by officers of their own government.
Keep in mind that they had personally experienced all of those things in their recent past. They were not wild eyed, fever dream, conspiracy theories born of some streak of paranoia.
As the saying goes: they had been there and done that and they wanted to make sure the we, their descendants, if we had to do it all again, would have the means to do so.