Would you rather trade justifiable homicides for plain old homicides? The thing about weapon checks is everybody gets checked. Right now there are probably more criminals walking around with guns than law abiding citizens. It's backwards. If put in the position I would rather commit justifiable homicide than be the victim of homicide. Would you not?

Oh and outside of movies like Back to the Future 3 I'm not sure where you are getting your history from. There may have been weapon checks here and there once in a while, but American towns did not have giant walls and guarded gates to maintain security and check for weapons. Private businesses may have asked customers to leave weapons outside, but cities as a whole did not.

Horrible news to hear, not only were they not able to watch the movie but to lose their lives as well? I'll pray for the victims and their families.

Also watching that movie will never be the same for those who survived :/.

The famous shootout in Tombstone, Arizona for one revolved around the refusal of a small group of outlaws to abide by the local statute, with Wyatt Earp and other legally-entrusted individuals going to stop it.

You both have a complete misunderstanding about our Constitution and our culture.  The Constitution guarantees, among many things, a right to bear arms, and to defend ourselves and practice our lives how we see fit as long as we don't harm others. 

You think the Police can protect you?  The Police only do what they're told to do, depending on whom is in charge.  They can't protect you from harm any more than you can protect yourself.  You would rather live in a controlled police-state than a free state?  Shameful.

And people wonder why someone does pirate their things.
If those people would have just waited 1 week they could have watched it at home in HD too.

Probably now a good excuse for pirating stuff now cause if you go outside,especially to a Premerie you could die.

That is some bogus nut job conspiracy theorist trash.

If you're asking me whether I would rather live in a country where any idiot can't walk down the street holding an extremely dangerous weapon and my safety is in the hands of trained professionals, then yes.

A country where gun laws are tight is not a "police state". Infact, in the UK, we can obtain double barreled shotguns fairly easily if we don't have a criminal record and the gun is registered with the police, and a double barrel shotgun is more than enough to protect our homes, so you don't have an argument. If you want a truly "free state", why not legalise drugs and start handing out nuclear weapons to the population, there are some things we can't be trusted with.