Prosecutors: This wasn't the first blow-up for Florida theater shooter Curtis Reeves

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29. While death seems like overkill for texting during a movie..

maybe some people need to wake up to the fact that a lot of people out there, for various reasons, are walking right on the edge and it doesn't necessarily take a lot to push them over the edge.

So if you deliberately do something that you (should) know aggravates *everybody* around you, (say, for example, texting during a movie so as to spoil the movie for everyone in your vicinity) don't be surprised when people are upset with you and some give you dirty looks. Just be grateful that none of them happens to be a nut with a gun and anger management or mental health issues. And if one of the people to whom you are being rude, inconsiderate and disrespectful turns out to be a nut with a gun, expect you may pay for your rude behavior with your life.

While I will tolerate rude behavior during the coming attractions, I'm personally done with the movie theater because of the rude assholes who deliberately ruin the movie for everybody who actually wants to watch it.

Obviously, the killer should get what's coming to him. But I do blame the victim for instigating the confrontation. Once somebody complained, no matter how irritating or unworthy he believed the complainant to be, he should have respected the request that he comply with the theater rules.

The fact is that he had the option to continue his texting -- outside the theatre -- instead of deliberately instigating a fight. Because, as written above, by the time somebody is old enough to be gainfully employed, a loving father, etc. etc. etc. they are old enough to have learned the above.