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

[The Magistrate]

98. And With That Admission, Sir, Your Entire Position Collapses

We may start by observing calmly that texting in a theater is not bullying, by any current definition of the term agreed to by more than two or three people.

Your take on the situation assumes two things which cannot safely be assumed: first, that the man who commenced the confrontation had some right to begin it, and that he did so in a polite and respectable manner. Given that the man has a previous record of engaging in altercations with persons over this, in this theater, which has produced such creepy behavior as following a woman to the ladies room to continue his harassment, and given further that he was armed and willing to kill, as demonstrated by the event itself, it seems highly unlikely he broached the subject in a polite manner. It is far more likely he confronted the younger man in an aggressive manner. When confronted by a stranger in a belligerent manner, a person is well within their rights to react with anything from 'shut up, leave me alone' to 'fuck off, dude'.

There was only one 'bully' involved here, and that is the man who began the confrontation by bearding a stranger, and ended it by shooting his chosen victim at point blank range in the chest.