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LOKNLOD
08-08-2012, 07:58 AM
Bag with gun & extra mags into the theater, to see Batman, with no carry permit? Good call, dude; way to think that one through.

Link to Story (http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/19214562/police-ohio-man-had-gun-knives-at-batman-showing)

I'm assuming it was a bug-out bag type of rig (I'm picturing a Maxpedition bag) because it says "the officer was more familiar with the bag, and he knew where to look" after the manager had already looked in the bag. Goes to show that when you go carrying stuff like that around, there are at least some people paying attention.

This last bit really frustrates me the most, though:

"Our job is to protect the community," he said of police. "It's not his role. If there's a gun, it's because our officers brought it. It's not his job to bring the gun, it's ours."

I wonder how many other Ohioans were carrying legally in that very theater?
NETim
08-08-2012, 08:06 AM
This guy seems a little sketchy, to say the least.
JConn
08-08-2012, 08:51 AM
This guy seems a little sketchy, to say the least.

I agree. No valid permit=you messed up bud. What am upset about is some of the rhetoric being spouted by the local Leos. I've heard stuff like, why would anyone bring a gun to that movie in particular. I know the area this guy was at though, it's a really nice shopping center, pretty high income area.
JConn
08-08-2012, 08:54 AM
On a side note, what right did they have to search his house after the event? This is a serious question. If they were ok to do so that's fine but it doesn't really make sense to me.
Sparks2112
08-08-2012, 10:58 AM
Something that non-Ohio people probably don't understand is that Westlake is EXTREMELY gun unfriendly. It's not a good place to carry with a CCW permit, let alone without one. What a moron.
LittleLebowski
08-08-2012, 11:36 AM
On a side note, what right did they have to search his house after the event? This is a serious question. If they were ok to do so that's fine but it doesn't really make sense to me.

Yeah, I hope there was a warrant involved.
ToddG
08-08-2012, 12:47 PM
On a side note, what right did they have to search his house after the event? This is a serious question. If they were ok to do so that's fine but it doesn't really make sense to me.

It's a safe bet that they easily got a warrant issued to search the house of a person who was heavily (and illegally) armed at a movie theater, especially if they played up the potential copycat angle.
JConn
08-08-2012, 01:33 PM
It's a safe bet that they easily got a warrant issued to search the house of a person who was heavily (and illegally) armed at a movie theater, especially if they played up the potential copycat angle.

I suppose so. This type of stuff just sets my personal privacy alarms off.
ToddG
08-08-2012, 02:02 PM
I suppose so. This type of stuff just sets my personal privacy alarms off.

Your personal privacy rights definitely can get superseded if you do stupid things like walk into a theater with a go bag when you don't even have a license to carry.
LOKNLOD
08-08-2012, 02:13 PM
Your personal privacy rights definitely can get superseded if you do stupid things like walk into a theater with a go bag when you don't even have a license to carry.

...the week after another guy with tac gear shoots up a theater during same movie.

I do so loathe the media discussing how much stuff he had at home, as if it somehow had any bearing on his ability to shoot up the movie theater miles away. He probably had porn on his computer too, but that doesn't mean we get to infer he wanted to rape everyone.
TCinVA
08-08-2012, 08:12 PM
The boundaries of a "reasonable" search and seizure tend to expand when the cops can point to something like Colorado.

I took my folks to see the new Batman film for their anniversary. The theater personnel wanted to search my mother's bag...because we all know what a danger those retirement-aged white women are. Of course, I never got the stink eye. Partly because a Carhartt t-shirt and shorts don't say "I'm here for the pillagin!", but mostly because of the irresistible enchantment of my awesome hair. SouthNarc has his expensive shoes, I have my hair. It all works out in the end.