Wanting businesses to have basic safety measures—like emergency doors with functioning alarms—isn’t killing people of color, bby. You ran with the standard as metal detectors and mall cops. I said I’d be okay with metal detectors because they don’t kill people. It’s a gatekeeping issue.

LOL, if you think my intentions are shitty, and I’m lying about not reading other comments in the thread, I’m reaaaaaaaaally curious what you hope to accomplish with this asinine confrontation. But since you decided to apparently cyberstalk my comments, maybe you should go back further and see where I talk about my…

Maybe, but if the timber of the comments I’ve been responding to are indicative of anything, the theater would have to personally have paid an employee to gun the people down to be viewed as responsible.

I haven’t been reading the thread beyond the commenters I’m responding to, and for every one comment agreeing with me, I’m getting five or six arguing against what I said. Either because they don’t actually know what they’re talking about, or because they just fundamentally disagree that a place of business should…

No, I actually didn’t pick up the detail about the door failing from other commenters in the thread, but go ahead and keep making assumptions if it makes you feel better. That worked out super well when you lectured me about the risks facing people of color, didn’t it?

Oh right, because legal decisions have never been wrong—Plessy v. Ferguson ring a bell?

Yes, I forgot to add that part. Thank you. I don’t think most people are aware of the detail regarding the malfunctioning alarm. Of course, in the comment threads where I’ve introduced that piece of evidence, nobody has cared. It really comes down to the fact people think “assumption of the risk” should and does apply…

People like me expect emergency exit doors to function properly. Wow, we’re so unreasonable.

The funny thing is, when people trivialize gun violence, I don’t care if I’m perceived as having a cool or calm head. Do you normally care if the people with whom you’re engaging think you’re in possession of a cool and calm head? I guess we just have different calculuses about what matters. Also, not agreeing with…

Yeah, your mental gymnastics are super impressive. You’re like the digital Gabby Douglass. Just like you took from my comment I obviously wanted all powerful organizations to set up private guards and metal detectors.

It’s really weird how you are replying to every comment on this thread. Like a little stalkerish. What’s your deal? Why is it so important to engage me on every point? Is Cinemark your family company or something?

The theater also malfunctioned in providing safety. You do know that Holmes was able to exit and then re-enter the theater through an emergency door whose alarm never sounded, right? Do you realize if we were talking about literally any other incident of mass death—say, a fire—there would be no question of liability…

Not an internet lawyer, but I did read the case and the subsequent decision. I just love how people who haven’t feel qualified to opine on something they don’t understand—that would be you, by the way. Thanks for being adorbs.

It does when someone is presuming to speak for all business owners, which I happen to be.

Oh, would that make their death/maiming somehow more acceptable to you? What a shitty comment.

I can see you don’t know anything about the case—like how the alarm door failed to sound when he used it to both exit and then re-enter the theater—so I’m not sure why you’re even offering up an opinion. I’m not inclined to agree with people who are wrong. Bye.

You go through metal detectors at public schools and retail chains and airports. So.

We’re talking about a legal decision, so it actually has EVERYTHING to do with the law, especially since them putting the screws to the victims is a legal tactic to circumvent any future suits. Try to keep up.

You want to carry on the fantasy that demanding businesses be accountable for providing safety for the people inside their premises somehow leads to Brave New World, be my guest. But know your freaking audience. I am a woman of color, I am the powerless in society. And I’m tired of seeing poorer women of less…

The only impression I have of you is how you conducted yourself on this comment thread. Funny how you keep saying you’re “empathetic” to the victims but all of you comments have put them in a framework of ungrateful entitlement, especially after I pointed out what they ACTUALLY want is likely their loved…