Yeah, and when you shoot somebody for that, you go to PRISON.
Every CCW class pounds home the shoot-no shoot situations, and pounds home the message that if you do a “bad shoot,” you will go to prison.
This is more of an issue of an ex-cop bully who thought he could still order his fellow citizens around, and when it didn’t work out, he pulled a gun in anger and shot the man.
It was during the PREVIEWS for goodness sake! Commercials! Not the movie!
It doesn’t matter of it was during the previews. The rule is when the lights go down you shut off your cellphone. No ifs ands or buts about it.
Obey the rules or get the &^%$ out.
I suspect, given the ex cop’s age, that there might be a degree of dementia involved as well. Preoccupation with something trivial, in this case texting (the account where he followed some woman to a restroom over it on a previous occasion), is one of the signs.
It isn’t as though the victim was talking on his phone in a disruptive and disturbing manner. I’ve been in movies where that was the case. And more than one person complained to management about it. I fully expect people to text during previews and even movies anymore. Most under 50’s are completely addicted to it. No one expects to get flack over it anymore. Especially since it wasn’t during the movie itself.
Imagination is your strong suit, but it doesn’t make a very compelling argument in this case. Unless you happened to be in the theater and are offering testimony instead of speculation.