A man arrested with weapons over the weekend at an Ohio theater showing The Dark Knight Rises faces 21 charges, CNN reports. Scott A. Smith, 37, was arrested Saturday with a gun, ammunition and knives at the Regal theater in Westlake, Ohio and is due in court tomorrow facing two counts of carrying a concealed weapon and 19 counts related to carrying weapons “under disability”, which refers to prescription drugs Smith was taking, prosecutors said. A search of Smith’s home turned up more weapons and survivalist gear. Smith’s arrest follows the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado where a young man is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 58 at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20.
Man Arrested At Ohio Screening Of ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Faces 21 Weapons Charges
By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 8:15pm PDTTags: The Dark Knight Rises
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I saw a news report where someone jumped up during a local Dark Knight showing and started running down the aisles screaming, “This is it!” I’m proud to say, audience members tackled him and held him down until the police arrived. He turned out to just be an unarmed drunk troublemaker, but I realized that movie goers now have the same mentality as airplane passengers after 9/11. If someone starts acting dangerous, onlookers are going to take action.
Awesome. Now we have to worry about someone hijacking our movie. Maybe TCA can come in and pat down our balls and sift though the popcorn. The last thing I want to be is “vigilant” at the movie theater. Guns for everyone, hurray!
so the haters who dont want anyone seeing this movie just keep on showing up with their gear to frighten viewers away. absolutely pathetic. this is an election year from hell. just appalling. and no i dont blame movie violence one bit Harvey. These are people with a mission. There are even more violent movies out there and yet these idiots go to batman.
well i for one am going for paid viewing number 4. This is one of if not the best superhero movies ever, if not a great movie in general.
just sad the hate being dished out against a great movie & causing other folks not to attend.
When will the media stand up and take responsibility for all these copycats? They plastered James Holmes all over every TV and computer screen for 2 weeks and made him a celebrity. They showed that if you act like this, they will give you all the attention and fame you desire. They did nothing but give every other maniac in the country inspiration and a target. There’s been so many incidents in Dark Knight showings now that it’s getting hard to remember them all, including at least two more guys who plotted mass murder and called themselves the Joker. And through it all the news media continues to lay the blame on the movie, on comic books, on superheroes, without ever taking a look in the mirror. Then when it comes out that Holmes was not even obsessed with Nolan’s films, that he was actually obsessed with a ultra-violent fan film that featured a gun shooting Batman, they never even report it. They never go oh, whoops, we jumped the gun there when we blamed Nolan. Nope, that’s the storyline they want so they keep it going. It’s sickening.
Yeah, shame on the news media for, um, reporting the news. And I don’t know what “media’ you’re reading/watching, but I heard few blaming Batman/Nolan for this incident. It was a crazy guy with a gun doing something… crazy… and newsworthy.
Sorry. I don’t buy the “they want their 15 minutes of fame” argument and that the news media is to blame. These incidents are always much more systemic than that. It’s the news media’s responsibility to report the news good or bad. Exploiting non-events in lieu of bigger events to report on – why I assume Ted Turner is unhappy with CNN amongst other reasons – perhaps contributes more to the copycat analogy/syndrome than anything else. The “this could have been much, much worse” thing.
Uh…EXPLOITING SYSTEMIC FOR SALES OR RATINGS…is the enemy. Doing so represents unquantifiable damage in our culture. News shouldn’t unduly rubberneck. It indulges and feeds on people’s worst instincts. Gnaws at them. In my opinion.
Naw, we don’t need gun control. It’s un-American! DON’T TREAD ON ME