But the only issue at that point was him. The movie hadn’t started yet, who cares if a guy is texting during the commercials. He turned it into a verbal altercation that didn’t need to happen. Then he talked to management who probably said they’d take care of it (while thinking, it’s the previews, who cares). Then he came back and started arguing again, when he could have just left it to management to handle. And of course the entire time he could have diffused the situation by sitting elsewhere, or remembering that it was the freaking previews and get over it already.
Confronting somebody who isn’t doing anything wrong is starting a fight. Period.
[[He turned it into a verbal altercation that didn’t need to happen]]
Do we know how the initial contact happened? Did the shooter rush right in threatening? Did he ask politely first only to have the dead fella blow his top?
[[Then he came back and started arguing again,]]
Who started the second conversation? Was the dead fella fuming bout being confronted previously? Did he start the second ‘conversation’? Who actually escalated the issue to dangerous levels? Some people really take exception to being asked not to do something- Especially if they are asked rudely (Again i don’t know how it all went down- just trying to present ll sides objectively)
That is what needs to be determined- Who escalated it to the point where it broke the law? (which then tragically ended in death)
Likely it was the shooter- but knowing people, it very well could have just as easily been the dead fella who took umbrage to being told not to do something
Two hotheads- sure- but who stepped over the line legally first?