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Well, if they simulate a movie theater and you burn some extra money to simulate the price of snacks you can almost have the entire theater experience without the risk of being shot by some nutjob


> without the risk of being shot by some nutjob

I'm sorry, why did you include that hyperbole?...

In the last five years, there have been three incidents of criminal violence in US theatres, killing 14 people and wounding up to 78.[1]

In the US/Canadian theatre market, 1.27 billion tickets were sold in 2014 alone.[2]

Movie theatres sound pretty safe to me.

1 https://www.thewrap.com/a-history-of-violence-at-the-movie-t...

2 http://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MPAA-Theatric...


Yeah, it seems to me that you're way more likely to be shot at home.


I know you're probably being sarcastic, but that's probably only true if you're a female in an abusive relationship, or particularly if you're a male with suicidal tendencies.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm


People spend far more time at home than the movies which increases the statistical chance of dying from a gun at home compared to elsewhere. The user was showing that comparing what is more or less likely is usually very irrelevant because the statistics are often misleading. Ignoring "time spent somewhere" makes home one of the most deadly places to be.


The media overplays it. Scary news articles are gobbled up.

Convince the general public they are unsafe and boom you have a market ready to buy your replacement experience.

Don't try to use facts and numbers against the average citizen. They won't have it.




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