[StarSlayer]

I don't twit so I'll take your word for it.   Standardization would be a good move, though I imagine forcing the unions to open wide and swallow would be a neat trick. 

[Lorric]

I feel comfortable with the UK police. But I wouldn't feel comfortable with the US police.

[StarSlayer]

I recognize my limits of me experience with UK police not to make assumptions about their effectiveness.

[Hellzed]

If I had had to compare french and US police I'd say : that's ok, they are both racist, but at least, french police is not going to shoot me because I wear some hoody.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

At least not with actual bullets.

[Grizzly]

Honestly, the french are saints.

[MP-Ryan]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/22/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/

Few more details, but mostly emotion.  Seems the shooter is attempting to go for the "I was in fear for my safety" defense.

[karajorma]

The 6-foot-1, 270-pound Reeves, who was also with his wife for the matinee at the Grove 16 Theatre in suburban Tampa, left the auditorium, apparently to complain to management, police said. Reeves returned "irritated," a witness said. The argument continued and popcorn was thrown.

So having done the right thing, by complaining to the management he then returned to the theatre determined to do the wrong thing and start an argument.

[Lorric]

The 6-foot-1, 270-pound Reeves

Whoa, he's even more built than I thought he was. That's not built for a 71 year old, that's built full stop.

[swashmebuckle]

Dunno if the usual products of the donuts+steroids diet qualify as built, but definitely big.

[Lorric]

Dunno if the usual products of the donuts+steroids diet qualify as built, but definitely big.

Hmmm, yes, I'm going too far by saying built full stop. No bulging muscles. Big will do nicely. Not fat, not built, big.

[MP-Ryan]

Hypocrisy AND murderously bad judgement.  Say it ain't so http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Records+Florida+accused+theatre+shooting+argument+over/9613561/story.html

Yeah, our friend the retired police officer was texting too.

[karajorma]

Well it's hardly surprising that anyone willing to shoot someone over sending a text message would have a "But it's okay when I do it" style thought process.

Judging from the fact that he'd done this sort of thing in the past but hadn't escalated it to murder it's obvious he has appointed himself the Batman of text messaging.

[S-99]

Certainly didn't expect the murderer to be a 71 year old retired cop. Was expecting some punk.

Certainly didn't expect a 43 year old father to throw a bag of popcorn.

I don't care if people text while i'm watching a movie in a theater, but at least put the phone on vibrate for then. I just turn my phone off entirely since i spent money to spend my attention on a moving flick (and not to be a ****wad).

There's only one thing i don't mind, and that's breaking a dramatic long silence in a movie with a good fart. Breaking that long dramatic silence by breaking the silence in a theater is the difference between laughs and angry people hearing that damn samsung or iphone noise. What's worse is when i've seen people leave the theater to charge their phones when they run low. A lot of people don't think about the purpose of what they have spent their money on, and complain later on if they didn't have a good experience because they're too dim witted to realize that they had they're attention pulled away the whole time.

Just don't don't use your phone in a theater because it is really annoying to others (i won't shoot someone, but i have yet to see someone obnoxious enough to make me want to kick their ass in a theater).

If you can't stay away from your phone for hours at a time, then you should definitely never go see a movie because you're not watching it anyway.

[Wobble73]

I used to work in a movie theatre in the UK and some Irish travellers attended one day, the mothers were in the toilets getting drunk whilst the kids were running riot in the theatre! How's that for obnoxious!

[S-99]

  I guess the mothers didn't realize the staff aren't babysitters.