Old Fuff
Considering the usual crowds, it would almost impossible to shoot without people in the background. Given the circumstances, there is no reason for exhibitors to be armed, and the practice should be prohibited.
To my knowledge, there are no "no carry" postings in movie theatres here; should people refrain from carrying in movie theatres because of crowds?
RKBABob
What he did was the equivalent of driving past parking barricades, through a police roadblock, over the sidewalk, then into the mall... then losing control of his vehicle. Could happen to anyone while they're driving through the mall, right?.
"Police roadblock"? Let's not make some sort of big parade out of this. What this man did do was disregard the wishes of the owner/operator of a piece of private real estate in regard to carrying firearms.
IF it was in actual fact posted.
Yes, he most definately was reckless. The gun show was most likely posted as "no loaded weapons" and he ignored it. For whatever reason, he decided to unholster his loaded firearm in a public place... why? Maybe to reload the gun which he had previously demonstrated as clear? The gun discharged in a public place, where loaded guns were not to be handled! He's not being punished for a little accident... he's being punished for a series of poor decisions that lead up to the accident.
"Likely posted"? That's a big if. And I do not see any big deal over unloading or loading a firearm in a public place. I can think of a number of reasons someone might want to do this.
Did he violate one of the
Four Rules? Perhaps.
There are vehicle collisions every day in Houston involving people with no licenses, no insurance, and
actual reckless behavior - often intentional and flagrant. Even with identifiable persons involved, not even a small fraction of them are held accountable for their actions - for a variety of reasons - regardless of property damages and in some cases actual injuries caused to people.
Unless he was behaving in a truly reckless manner at the time of the incident, or it was intentional, it is still all alot of overreaction to me.
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