Two Killed, Nine Injured in Louisiana Theater Shooting

Two Killed, Nine Injured in Louisiana Theater Shooting

At least two people, including the gunman, were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting Thursday night at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, authorities told NBC News.

Police in Lafayette, about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge, said the shooting occurred at the Grand Theatre on Johnston Street about 7:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. ET). Witnesses described hearing about six shots in a screening of the movie "Trainwreck."

Acadian Ambulance Service told NBC News that two people were dead at the scene. Police said they believed one of them was the gunman.

"We believe the scene is safe at this time," Sgt. Kyle Suarez told NBC News.

Nine other people were injured, according to the ambulance service. Their conditions weren't immediately available.

Katie Domingue told The Daily Advertiser newspaper that "an older white man" began shooting about 20 minutes into the movie.
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My take:

It's getting awfully harder to defend loose gun laws. How was this guy allowed into a theater with a gun? That's insane.

We've seen this scenario before: the guy waits until the audience settles down then starts opening fire.

Unfortunately, arming people in the theater won't likely work, since time and time again, there were armed citizens around during mass shootings. The latest shooting in Chattanooga is a good example, but so was Vegas, Columbine, Fort Hood, Virginia Tech, and many more.

 

I assume he had a ticket if he was inside one of the screening rooms, though you don't need one to get in the front door at most of these multiscreen plexes.

 

There are many opportunities to put a metal detector or some other method of ensuring that the movie-goers aren't packing: the entrance door, the theater door, etc.

The only two alternatives are:

1. Get rid of public theaters
2. Arm every man, woman and child in the theater.

Even if #2 is used, the gunman could still take out many people before the movie-goers even draw their weapons.

It seems the best solution is to take very simple measures to ensure that guns don't get into theaters.

 

metal detectors at movie theaters.

 

If #2 is used, some high-strung individual is bound to get jumpy when someone who subjectively "looks suspicious" reaches for their red vines.

Agreed.

 

Smh typical.

 

Think of how many millions of people have gone into movie theaters between the Colorado shooting and now. If guns were the problem, why isn't this happening more often?

And with your post history of advocating for outlawing gun ownership, let's not pretend that you are interested in setting up metal detectors. That would be insulting.

 

How much you want to bet he's another ISIS boy?

 

58 yr old white male from Louisiana? Highly unlikely. If he is religious, he's most likely Christian than anything.

 

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Colleen_LaRose

 

The local news is saying that this was likely a domestic dispute. Again, if he was religious, it was mostly Christian.

 

The shooter obviously didn't like the movie..

 

It's unlikely he is a part of ISIS as the other poster suggested.

 

Hahahaaaa OK..

 

The answer has nothing to do with guns. The answer is universal healthcare and access to mental health services. US is a very bleak and desperate society. Very stressful. People snap. Take care of your people better and these will happen less often.

 

It's kinda scary when someone snaps and has easy access to guns.

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Where next,, supermarkets and general stores?

 

There's just too many guns for anyone to take them away. It would turn into a civil war. People need to focus on the points I made.

 

Be very careful, that's like saying most gun owners in the US have mental health issues.

 

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You just dont know who in the US does. Millions forego medical appointments cause they cant afford them.

 

I don't like it. It's madness to have guns and metal detectors everywhere. It's an utterly insane way to run a society.

 

I don't think it's as much mental health issues, I think America has some pretty serious social issues. Having guns around just makes it easier to take someone out.

 

sure the right is hoping he is not another confederate flag waving southern Conservative Christian after the recent SC mass shooting

 

that and getting mental health help and admitting that kinda mental condition could effect your job and family life very negatively and take away some of your rights

it's a catch 22, they need help, but if they ask for it, they may ruin their lives

I think these events are like forest fires, every once and a while a suicidal crazy will do something like this, luckily there is not a huge percent of them in the world

the toxic combination is often hateful religious, political or racist groups suck them in and make them feel they have a purpose, something worth dying for

these other groups do not turn them into the police or call their employers or family to warn them about how dangerous they are, so they turn to them for help rather then the medical profession

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Where I am from I could get mental health help and it'd be illegal for them to fire me. US needs better work protection laws.'i doubt they even have any.

 

He didn't use a steak knife. I'm sure it was a semi auto.

I bet he's not.

Edit: What do you mean "another"? ISIS hasn't been involved in any shooting on US soil that I know of, including the Chattanooga shooting.