I didn't pick a fight with you, I hope you aren't taking it personally. I'm sure you are a perfectly decent person and I'm not making any personal attacks against your character or intelligence, I'm just pointing what I believe to be an error in your logic.
My only point here thought the entire thread that we don't know the truth either for or against the accused. We have only been presented one side of the story by a media with a known agenda. Once the truth comes out it could very well support self defense and there is no reason to believe otherwise at this point. Aren't you even a little skeptical of the media at this point? How many obvious and overt lies do we need to catch them at before the general public wakes up.
No I am not a 911 "truther".
Our troubles started with post 52, in which you said
You carry a pistol for self protection. Someone in the theater is texting on a phone, you ask them politely to stop and they go off on you. You go and speak to the manager. When you come back the guy won't let it go, he is getting more and more irate, words get more and more heated, then he throws his bag of popcorn at you. What do you really think is going to happen next? Do you think he's suddenly going to come to his senses, apologies and offer to pay your dry cleaning bill? Throwing the popcorn was a clear escalation of force that went past a rational tipping point, the next step was going to be physical, even the aggressors wife was trying to hold him back. The elderly man clearly suspected what was going to happen next. He wasn't afraid of the popcorn, he was afraid of a younger and stronger man getting his hand on him before he could deploy his legal, and rational, means of self defense. It might not have happened this way but it could have.
Implicit in this post is the idea that throwing popcorn or speaking insultingly is grounds to shoot an unarmed person frontally in a public place, if we accept the reports to date that no punches were thrown. I simply cannot buy that. It truly isn't a rational response. If someone is irrational, move away and call the usher, or the real cops, or brandish your weapon but don't shoot unless you see a weapon. Or don't go back to the same seat behind a moron -- any number of other responses than blaming the guy you shot for making you do it -- that's the rape defense men used before courts came to their senses -- she looked so sexy, I had to rape her!
No one is trying to lynch anyone. And I'm really done trying to convince you otherwise.