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Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
rossgneumann writes North Korea may really be behind the Sony hack, but we're still acting like idiots. Peter W. Singer, one of the nations foremost experts on cybersecurity, says Sony's reaction has been abysmal. "Here, we need to distinguish between threat and capability—the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer network is not the same thing as being able to carry out physical, 9/11-style attacks in 18,000 locations simultaneously. I can't believe I'm saying this. I can't believe I have to say this."
The OP has it wrong. The theaters would be liable.
Remember the shooting that occurred at a screening of Batman: the Dark Knight? Well, some families of victims are suing the theater and the case is still ongoing. Because there's a chance that the theater may be found liable of not having "enough security" for a random shooting, and because it can be argued that the theaters in this case were "warned ahead of time of a potential attack," they could potentially be found liable should anything happen.
Keep in mind that Sony is only pulling the release after the five largest theater chains refused to show it. And the reason they refused to show it is because they could potentially be liable should anything happen anywhere in any of their theaters. Given the poor reviews the movie is getting they presumably decided that it just wasn't worth any risk as they're probably not going to make much anything off showing it anyway.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Yeah, I'm a wussie for not wanting to face an armed intruder bare handed.
A situation you would remedy by obtaining a gun and learning how to use it. Being shot by the homeowner is the single biggest fear among would-be intruders, ranking higher than being caught by police. And since we are talking about intruders we are talking about your own property, definitely not the subject of conceal carry laws.
Hopefully you have more sense than to think an armed intruder willing to break into your home and shoot you is going to care about any laws against carrying a concealed weapon. Laws like that are followed by ... the .. law-abiding! Which is why the whole conceal carry movement is about empowering the people who are not criminals. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.