A bar fight?
Your sense of honor is with you wherever you are.
What should have happened:
1. The fool got loud and got in his face. Since he was beyond reason, Cuccinelli should have pushed him back out of his face.
2. If the fool wants to go beyond that and re-engage, then it is time for fists to fly.
As the late Patrick Swayze said in “Road House”, “I want you to be nice, until it’s time to not be nice”
So how was prison?