Details of today’s shooting are still emerging, but these are the facts we have so far:
1) It is “too soon” to talk about how this shooting fits into our approach to gun control.
2) Our approach to gun control makes it easy for anyone [even people who “exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements”] to get guns legally and kill multiple people.
3) In spite of the fact that every other western industrialized country manages to restrict criminals and the mentally deranged from obtaining guns, any changes (and I mean ANY CHANGES) in our approach to gun control are impossible because they would naturally and inexorably lead to tyranny.
4) Congress and the national headquarters of the NRA are both places which restrict 2nd Amendment rights.
5) The NRA took in over $300 million in revenue in 2013.
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) –
Metro Police confirmed the shooter at an Antioch movie theater is dead. Police responded to a shots fired call about 1:15 p.m.
The Nashville Fire Department confirmed that shots were being fired at the Carmike Hickory 8 Cinema on Bell Road just before 2 p.m.
Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said the suspect entered the theater armed with a gun and a hatchet. Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas later said the gunman also had pepper spray on him.
A South Precinct officer entered the theater where Mad Max: Fury Road was showing. There, he encountered the gunman in the projection room. The gunman and the officer exchanged gunfire.
Read more: http://www.wsmv.com/story/29717483/active-shooter-reported-at-antioch-theater#ixzz3hyOc1e9Z