Responsible Gun Owner Leaves Gun Lying in Movie Theater

Good to see we have such rigorous concealed carry programs that will weed out the dregs of the gene pool, right?

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/2...ve-with-loaded-gun-in-theater/?iref=obnetwork



With the horrific news involving guns from Newtown, Connecticut, in the past week, here’s a story with a happy ending and one that illustrates how kids can be more responsible than adults when it comes to weapons.

On Wednesday morning in Tillamook, Oregon, a city of 5,000 near the Pacific Ocean, a group of seventh-grade students were on a field trip to the local Coliseum Theatre to watch "The Hobbit." The outing was a reward for getting good grades.

It turns out these kids were more than book-smart.

When Kolton McKinney pulled his seat down, something fell from it.

“He sat down in his chair and I heard a ‘clunk’ and I looked down and there it was,” Kolton’s classmate, Levi Crabtree, told CNN affiliate KGW in Portland.

The gun the boys found in the theater.

It was a gun, a small-caliber, semi-automatic pistol. It was fully loaded with a round in the chamber, Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright said.

Levi and Kolton didn’t touch the weapon. They alerted a school staffer who was on the field trip, who then alerted police.

Why didn’t the boys pick up the firearm?

"I'm a Boy Scout and Kolton and me took a hunter safety class. One of the rules is that you treat all guns as if they're loaded," Levi told KPTV.

“Who would do that? Seriously, there’s a bunch of people that go to that theater and they put a gun in there,” Kolton told KGW.

Somebody who’s “careless” and “reckless,” Wright said.

Police told KPTV that a man went to the theater on Wednesday night asking if anyone had found his gun and turned it in to the lost and found. He’d lost it the night before in the theater.

The man, who has a Tillamook County concealed handgun license, never notified police he’d lost the weapon, KPTV reported.

Luckily, the two Tillamook Junior High School students were thinking more clearly.

"Our students reacted exactly like we would hope and that is they recognized that is was a gun, recognized that they needed to stay away and contact a teacher immediately," Tillamook school Superintendent Randy Schild told KPTV. "I hope this is a learning opportunity not only for our students, but any students that see it on TV or anywhere else."

Police did not identify the man who lost the gun but told CNN his concealed-carry permit has been revoked and information about the case was being forwarded to the district attorney.

We forward our compliments to two smart seventh-graders.

 

Trained law enforcement have done the same and worse. Would you like some links?

 

While I am sure your calling the owner resposible was sarcastic and he should have his permit revoked. It does show the importance of teaching children about guns. A child ignorant about weapons could have killed himself or classmates.

 

Not only that but shall we compare and see which side hass broken the law more, CWP holders or police officers???

 

Very true and they would deserve to lose their jobs over it.

 

What the story actually said - "One man left a gun in a movie theater."

What Dave1mo read - "Every gun owner in the country leaves loaded guns in movie theaters all the time."


Check your prejudice at the door, bro. You're getting all chicken little in here.

 

Maybe learn to argue without constructing strawmen before entering a debate.

 

Time for them to burn people a bit more for screwing up like that.

 

How is it a straw man? Where are you giving due respect to the other 99.999% of gun owners who never do this? You even mock them by association in the thread title, sarcastically calling this guy a "responsible gun owner."

My statement stands.

 

He passed all requirements currently in place for receiving a concealed carry permit; clearly he's responsible if he's capable of doing so. I don't understand; are you claiming that the current requirements for such a permit are too lax?

And it's a strawman because nowhere in my post did I state that "all gun owners leave loaded guns in theaters all the time."

 

Good for that Boy Scout!

 

Perhaps fines and tickets and/or re-licensing and mandatory classes should be applied to a person that proves they cannot be responsible with their firearm. I know that if you misplace or mishandle a weapon in the military... your as is grass, in a major way.

 

When a person proves he is irresponsible and puts others at risk they should be held accountable. I would say he should at least never be issued a concealed weapons permit again. It would perhaps even be fair to prevent ownership to those who prove they can not be trusted. However that is a long way from wanting to restrict those who have not proved they can not be trusted.

 

And some 30 and 40 year drivers get distracted and run off the road.

 

I actually agree with this.

 

Thanks Dave!

Proof positive there's no such thing as a "responsible gun owner"!

 

Your statement in the title about him being responsible was sarcastic. You are now attempting to pretend it's sincere because I called you out on it. Pick a side and stick with it.

Cool. So then go ahead and explain how this was an anomaly which does not represent the vast majority of gun owners and how no one else should be penalized or villified for this one isolated incident. Go ahead. I'll wait.

 

(*)(*)(*)(*) right. These (*)(*)(*)(*)ing irresponsible gun owners are why we are having the issues we are today. Forget the 5-10,000 firearm murders committed every year by left leaning, welfare loving, dead beet no child support paying, drug using gang bangers.

 

How about a reckless endangerment charge and the permanent loss of CCW or open carry privilege at the minimum. We gun owners need to come down hard on jackasses like this.

 

What the boy's did was exactly what they were supposed to do.
"Eddie The Eagle" is a program put on by the NRA to teach kids gun safety and what to do if they come across a gun.
The NRA has fought for years to put on this program in schools, but you guessed it, liberals always pitch a hissy-fit about it.

 

1 school shooting happened, so we must build security walls around all schools, as that would have stopped this school shooting.

 

One thing is clear to me: We must do something.

It is imperative that we work to improve things.

And it makes sense to embark upon that very endeavor, right now.

 

I agree. We need to breed a culture of life and promote the family unit once more.

 

Well, we didn't get here overnight; and things won't be as they were ever again. We must move forward with solutions as a goal.

 

Why can't they be? Why can't we promote families? What choice do we have?