Paul Schrum wanted to see X-Men: The Last Stand, but his wife wasn't interested in the film. So on Thursday evening- which is her night for mah-jongg with friends – he hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, and headed off to a multiplex up the road in Owings Mills.
When hours passed without his return, Rona Schrum went looking for her husband. It was after 1 in the morning when she pulled into the movie theater parking lot and saw his car – and many police officers.
In what police described as a random attack, Paul Schrum, a 62-year-old medical supplies salesman from Pikesville, was shot dead while watching a movie at Loews Valley Center 9 in Owings Mills. About 20 minutes into the film, police said, the gunman stood, told everyone to get on the floor and fired four shots.
The man then walked to the lobby, placed a handgun containing one unspent round on a counter and told theater management that he had shot someone. He waited for police to arrive.
Yesterday, as friends tried to comfort her, Rona Schrum said, "I will probably never understand why God has chosen to do that to me."
The suspect is a 24-year-old man, a 2000 graduate of Mount Hebron High School in Howard County and a 2005 graduate of Loyola College, where he majored in biology. Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar's family home is a house valued at more than $1 million in one of Baltimore County's most affluent neighborhoods.
Random target, random Jihad. Affluent family. Houston we have a problem.
And some people wonder why I carry a gun.
Fair warning, Non PC comment follows: Tongue not firmly in cheek.
“And some people wonder why I carry a gun.”
It might also be a good idea to inquire at the window, before you buy a ticket to the flicks, if there are any Muslims inside. If so, decline to enter. Same goes for getting on a bus, train, subway, or airplane. Then, there’s the issue of restaurants, shopping malls, amusement parks, and schools, colleges, flight training programs, and ever so much more.
The bloodthirsty terrorist barbarians have given a whole new meaning to “Caveat emptor.”
> And some people wonder why I carry a gun.
“People are carrying guns in the streets. How do we know if they are terrorists?”
- Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Muhammed-Jassim
Does your government allow you to carry a gun (second amendment arguments aside)?
Jim
I’m licensed to carry.
It’s good that your local government respects your constitutional right to carry a gun. Either that or you’re very well connected in your state. Unfortunately for the vicitm in this case, he lives in Maryland. Maryland denies your right to carry, unless you are very well connected with government officials. Maryland claims they deny this right for your safety. You must be conflicted by this concept Giaus, because our current administration likes to restrict citizen’s constitutional rights in the name of citizen safety.
In Baghdad you used to be able to carry a gun, but they just cancelled that, again for the safety of the citizens. At least now the evil doers in Baghdad don’t have to worry about their victims being armed. In many, many cases those evil doers are employed by the Iraqi government.
Jim