Meanwhile In Texas, Another Deranged Lunatic Is Stopped In His Tracks
We nearly had another Aurora movie theater shooting. This happened in Texas over the weekend, as a San Antonio movie theater erupted in gunfire…
ZitatTwo people are hospitalized after a gunman chased terrified restaurant patrons into the lobby of the Santikos Mayan 14 movie theater during a showing of “The Hobbit” last night, 1200 WOAI news reprots.
Police detectives and sheriff’s investigators say the incident started in the China Garden Restaurant on Southwest Military Drive about 9 PM Sunday, when an employee of the restaurant walked in looking for a woman.
When the woman, who officials say is also a restaurant employee, wasn’t there, the man pulled a gun and attempted to open fire in the restaurant but his weapon jammed.
“It started at the restaurant and then went into the parking lot and then into the movie theater,” Deputy Lou Antu told 1200 WOAI news.
Investigators say some of the terrified restaurant patrons poured into the movie theater, and the gunman followed.
He opened fire, shooting one man in the chest, before Antu says an off duty sheriff’s deputy who was working security at the theater shot him once.
Nobody died in San Antonio, thank God. The reason? There was armed security in that theater. The deranged lunatic was beaten at his game.
The good guys won, and lives were saved.
In this case, the off-duty cop working security did her job. It was fortunate that she was on hand.
Were she not immediately on hand, lives would have depended on another law-abiding citizen with a weapon to end the shooter’s activity. The absence of such a citizen, as in Aurora or Newtown, means dead bodies in large numbers.
The shooter, as it happens, was upset about his girlfriend breaking up with him. Another dissassociated punk kid with an overdeveloped ego…