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In reply to the discussion: Prosecutors: This wasn't the first blow-up for Florida theater shooter Curtis Reeves [View all]The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)We are talking about the shooting to death of one man by another.
You are bending over backwards to claim that the man who was killed is in large part to blame for the actions of the man who shot him to death.
It is not a supportable position, indeed, it is a reprehensible and disgusting position, given the actual course of events, as known from public reports.
A man possessing a gun began an altercation with a man who was engaged in a conversation with his three year old daughter. The man possessing a gun did not like how the man who was conversing with his three year old daughter reacted to being accosted and corrected. The man possessing a gun proceeded to shoot to death the man who had been conversing with his three year old daughter at point blank range.
The man possessing the gun, who set the thing in motion, who first accosted and took it upon himself to correct the behavior of a stranger, is the only person whose behavior crossed any sort of civil line here. He should have stayed in his seat and kept his mouth shut and his nose out of other people's business.
The likely fact of the matter, given known previous behavior of the man with the gun, is that he went out of his way to confront others over trivialities, and was looking for an opportunity to kill someone.