Does A Tiny Part Of You Support The Shooter Here?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25726591
Ok no one deserves to die for it but I have often wanted to strangle the morons using their phones in the cinema! I once reached over and grabbed the phone off a guy in front and threw it down the aisle, very enjoyable! Frankly I'm amazed that cinemas have not developed some sort of sheilding to negate phones entirely, then they'd not have to show those little comedic reminders about phone usage.

[gness]

More than a little support. I love theatre and NTLive at the cinema but I'm staggered at how many people don't know how to behave in these venues.

I don't care if I come across as a mad and grumpy old bat but I will stop people ruining a performance for me...and for most others who don't have the balls to speak up but would like to.

Probably just as well I don't have a gun....but I know how to stop a man talking loudly on his phone on the train......☻

[New Judge]

I hoped that my remarks about summary justice would have been taken as they were intended - somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

But I would suggest there is about as much need to use a phone in a cinema auditorium as there is to use a gun. It is extremely rude to fart about with phones whilst in a cinema or the theatre. Whoever the victim was texting, whether a child or not, is not really relevant, ummmm. If it really was that necessary for the text to be sent he could have respected his fellow viewers and left the auditorium. And quite why this gentleman had to text his three year old is a bit of a mystery. It is unlikely she could read and I imagine she was being cared for so it was not necessary to check up on her.

People need to show consideration for those around them and I’m afraid many simply don’t.

[ChillDoubt]

There have been two occasions when I've leant across and said to someone "Do you want to finish that conversation outside before I get REALLY p*ssed off?".
They duly obliged.
On another, I offered a spotty youth of about 14 the choice of growing up very quickly or 'a good hiding' if he didn't stop spitting pieces of paper through a straw at other audience members. He chose the former.

My physical stature, appearance and demeanour in such situations generally leaves the other person in no doubt that I will do what is necessary in order to have total silence during the film I'm watching.

[LazyGun]

"I hoped that my remarks about summary justice would have been taken as they were intended - somewhat tongue-in-cheek."

Only somewhat? Oh, thats alright then.

Once again - this guy was fatally shot and killed - oh, and his wife wounded, by the way - by an idiot who thinks taking a gun into a cinema is an OK thing to do, and that using that selfsame gun on someone else - for texting! on a phone - is acceptable. And you find yourself somewhat in sympathy with such a tragic over-reaction?!!

I can imagine being a bit irritated sure,but to talk about having sympathy with someone killing someone over a text, or confiscating their phone and then throwing it is just poor impulse control and self indulgent garbage.

Y'all need to grow up a bit.

[mikey4444]

The simple answer to your question TTT, is....no.

What possible difference does it make to anyone if someone sitting in the same Cinema as you is texting or not ? Masturbating, eating noisily or spitting perhaps, but texting...an essentially silent activity surely?

Were you interviewed by the Police for possible assault when you threw that phone down the aisle ?

I'm sure you can find something else to post about ?

[andy-hughes]

Not at all.

The notion of shooting someone because they annoy you is seriously chilling, and not at all worthy of any support whatsoever.

A different angle may be - do you understand the frustration felt by the shooter, but not his reaction - then yes, but that is not what you asked.

The day anyone thinks its ok for a stranger to shoot someone for mildly anti-social behaviour is a day when society lurches as little closer to anarchy and survivalism.

[New Judge]

OK I'll dispense with the levity (which I think was TTT's original intention) so delete the word "somewhat" from my tongue-in-cheek remark. We obviously must all grow up and not joke about such serious matters.

But it's still pig ignorant to sod about with a phone whilst sitting next to somebody who is trying to watch a film - even if you don't deserve to get shot.

[gness]

Chewn...deaf people don't speak loudly...they listen hard but don't need to shout..... You've made an incorrect argument there for some reason.

Deaf or not he is the same as anyone else and should respect those close to him.

[ummmm]

My uncle is partially deaf and he speaks loudly.

[andres]

The last time I was at the cinema the woman in front kept texting .There wasn't any noise but the constant flashing light from her phone was a distraction.

[gness]

I have thirty years experience as a sign language communicator with deaf children and some adults.
My circle of friends and acquaintances who are deaf is wider than one spouse or relative. Deaf people have no need to shout.....it's rare that they do.
Why would they?

People becoming hard of hearing in later years are somewhat different but there is still no need to shout.

[ummmm]

I should have said he speaks loudly on the phone.

[gness]

That may be the problem, Ummmm...many people, especially if they're older think you have to shout on the phone because the person isn't close by.
But so many people of all ages do it...and I don't want to hear it at that volume...particularly in a confined space.

[gness]

Of course my talents are endless, Chewn...you'd be amazed.

Why am I not surprised that you take such little interest in something that seems to matter to your wife if she has hearing problems?...My husband would never have described me as "some sort of sign language expert."

[gness]

I may have no choice but in some circumstances I have been known to put an end to it...☻