Theater Shooting Here in Atlanta

[silverscreenselect]

It's not going to get any publicity outside of Atlanta since, fortunately, no one was killed (or apparently even badly wounded) but we had a shooting last night at an art house theater here in Atlanta. The Landmark theater is part of a small nationwide theater chain that specializes in art and independent movies, and Mrs. SSS and I go there at least once a month (we saw Wild with Reese Witherspoon there two weeks ago) even though it's a fair distance drive from us in midtown Atlanta. The Landmark Theater is not the one that will be showing The Interview but it's about a mile away in the same general neighborhood.

The shooting happened about 10:00, immediately following a preview screening of a film called Finesse, which is a low budget rap music comedy. After the showing, some of the cast and crew were in the lobby signing autographs and answering questions when an argument broke out among some of the attendees in the lobby and two shots were fired and two people injured. The shooter got away. The Landmark schedules a lot of these previews, many of them one-time showings of more obscure films that never otherwise play in Atlanta. This one was reportedly well attended (you wouldn't have many people in the theater normally on a weeknight).

I hope things like this never happen, but in particular, I hope nothing happens at the Plaza or any of the other theaters showing The Interview. I highly doubt North Korean operatives will be showing up, but this whole controversy could stir up some lone nutcase to try something and that would make the big theater chains and studios even more timid than they are now.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/2-pe ... ter/njZYQ/

[Bob Juch]

If North Korean operatives showed up they'd be blown away by the large percentage of the audience that's armed.

(Do you know the gun that was used to kill the two NYC cops was last legally sold by a pawnshop in the Atlanta area?)

[jarnon]

I heard this on the national news, and thought of you. Thanks for posting.

2 Shot in Movie Theater in Midtown Atlanta

[silverscreenselect]

(Do you know the gun that was used to kill the two NYC cops was last legally sold by a pawnshop in the Atlanta area?)

That's not the only gun that's made its way from Georgia to New York.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/23/us/delta- ... smuggling/

So while passengers are having every last tube of toothpaste and bottle of mouthwash inspected or confiscated, a man is able to fly from Atlanta to New York with 18 guns and associated ammunition in his backpack.

[SpacemanSpiff]

(Do you know the gun that was used to kill the two NYC cops was last legally sold by a pawnshop in the Atlanta area?)

That's not the only gun that's made its way from Georgia to New York.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/23/us/delta- ... smuggling/

So while passengers are having every last tube of toothpaste and bottle of mouthwash inspected or confiscated, a man is able to fly from Atlanta to New York with 18 guns and associated ammunition in his backpack.

What I find troublesome is that the workers don't have to go through security screenings to go into work (cost savings, they say). If it's good enough for Amazon to inspect their employees after clocking off (and not have to pay them, per the recent Supreme Court ruling), then that should apply to these workers as well when they check in. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for a change.

[silverscreenselect]

But I'm not holding my breath waiting for a change.

All it will take is one incident in which someone actually uses a gun smuggled onto a plane instead of merely transports it to be sold. Of course, by then it may be too late.