Another Dark Knight Rises Hand Gun Arrest!

Dude had a hand gun in his holster, talking on the phone, and he got arrested.

The title should have been TDKR paranoia already creeping it's head.

I understand the precautions, but this just a sign of how scared people can get with only one real incident worth reporting.

Why was he arrested? Last time I checked we can still carry guns as long as we got them legally.

I'm sorry I'm all for having guns as long as they are handled and owned legally and by a sane person. This guy should have known that with everything happening around this movie and around theaters in general that he should have left his gun in the car.

All these news reports remind me of that guy in The Dark Knight Returns who went into the theatre with a gun...weird coincidence. i guess easy access to guns IS the main issue here.

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America,a permit to carry a gun...why would you need to carry a gun around,and why to the cinema

We really DONT need to carry guns around

You know guys, the answer is in your hands...

You can't keep your outdated right to bear arms and allow any nutter to get their hands on weapons and then despair when said nutters keep doing this.

Demand your laws changed!.

We rarely have this problem in the U.K because it is much MUCH harder to legally get your hands on guns yet alone military grade automatic weapons (the latter of which is utter lunacy in my opinion).

There is a big discrepancy that doesn't seem to have been covered...
this guy had a Concealed Carry Permit.
note the first word there... concealed.
none of this would have happened if the weapon in question had remained concealed... so I have questions:

how did anyone find out he was carrying?
did he show it intentionally
or did he just do a bad job of concealing it?
were the officers involved over-reacting due to recent events or was Hwang being difficult?
common sense people:
regardless of permit, if someone is armed and is not cooperating, what do you expect an officer to do?

I'm curious what really happened, I hope someday we find out.

WTF?!

a few things ps... he didn't have a full auto, ar - 15's are the public version of the m-15, one big change is that it not full auto, it is possible to change it to full auto but also hightly illigal.

2nd, and here is a big one that even most american's dont know, that is that the 2nd amendment is only valid if you are part of a state militia. the right to bare arms is not for public use, but only military and state sanctioned militia. the real reason why they can't take the guns away is not because of the 2nd amendment, but that most gun violations in the u.s.a is used with illegally obtained fire arms. if you make everyone who is a gun collector / enthusiast / sportsman to turn in there legally obtained fire arms, then there are thousands upon thousands of criminals with illegal fire arms out in public that can do whatever they want with out worrying about going into a house and being threatened. THe amount of illegal firearms isn't exactly known but it is known that it is a very scary number.

Oh wow this film is cursed.

@Superman2013 Why the [frick] wouldn't you to carry a gun to the cinema? Have you not been listening to the news? If even one person had had a concealed handgun in that theater they probably could have taken him down. Don't try and compare hand gun laws. The asshole who committed these atrocities obviously did not purchase these weapons legaly so to argue gun laws is pointless. He would have done this regardless. Maybe think before you speak is all I'm saying

@Superman2013; Civilians are not trained cops. They may be fully versed in using guns, but they are NOT fully versed in assessing a situation and responding thus (and you have split seconds to make the right call).
Lets just say a civilian or two jump up and start shooting back, say there are more casualties as bystanders or other gun-carring civilians who have jumped up are mistaken for the shooters and shot also. Civilians shooting civilians by mistake, and you can bet you'd be charged with manslaughter if you were responding, trying to help and accidentally shot another gun-carrying civilian who was again allegedly 'trying to help'.
Where does all the madness end?. Wake the frick-up America, you're not living in the wild-west anymore and your gun-laws ARE outdated.

@Mr Duck.
I've travelled extensively on the east coast and sampled NYC. The food can be very nice (but your portions are waaaay too MASSIVE - lol).

Re: our regular police carry taser-guns, pepper-spray, night-sticks and handcuffs / vinyl-cord.
The 9mms and semi-autos rifles / sniper rifles are either locked in their car boot (trunk) or arrive with a specialised SWAT-type unit that is dispatched with them if a threat is deemed too dangerous.

So they do have the means to fire back, the difference is they rarely have to call on these units outside the major cities and if they do call on them there are rarely shoot-outs like you guys have to suffer over there because quite frankly, the UK is not flooded with guns (especially not military grade full-autos which are unheard of) because people are not scared or paranoid enough to feel they need to carry themselves.
They can't by law over here. In your house yes, at the gun-club - yes, and then only with specialised license that has to be renewed and reviewed). But you are not allowed weapons in public.

We have more of a problem with knives being carried by youths, but lets face it - its somewhat harder to mass-murder / wound 60+ civilians at a cinema with a single blade.