Does A Tiny Part Of You Support The Shooter Here?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25726591
Ok no one deserves to die for it but I have often wanted to strangle the morons using their phones in the cinema! I once reached over and grabbed the phone off a guy in front and threw it down the aisle, very enjoyable! Frankly I'm amazed that cinemas have not developed some sort of sheilding to negate phones entirely, then they'd not have to show those little comedic reminders about phone usage.

[emmie]

i think that there had been words between them, and not just an ex cop who pulled out a piece and shot the bloke, if you read the report, it says he tried to get the manager, not suggesting for one moment that it justifies it, but a little bit of background to the story.

[mikey4444]

What all this actually boils down to is....a mad American tw*t, with a gun, a lethal combination ! In Britain this might have ended in a punch-up but in America, there is always a gun involved.

[LazyGun]

Florida has a "Stand your Ground" defence for shooting someone, which basically allows you a lot of leeway in claiming to shoot someone in self defence - Although this guys lawyer tried that here, even the police and prosecutors were not buying that defence.

I repeat - you might find yourself irritated, you may be so exercised as to fetch the manager - but to pull a gun following a heated exchange of words and the throwing of some popcorn - and to pull the trigger beggars belief. It is a massive over-reaction to a minor altercation, resulting in the death of a father, the loss of a parent for a young child, and the death of a spouse for the wife, also injured by the same gunshot.

I am genuinely astonished at anyone trying to find some grounds upon which to justify some kind of sympathy for the shooter...

[gness]

Of course it was a massive over reaction...what else could anything like that be?
But I wouldn't like myself if I didn't feel some sympathy or pity for anyone finding themselves responsible for this....until I know the full story and have reason to feel otherwise....that may happen, of course it may. I may come to the conclusion that he should have the death penalty.....til i do I will feel sympathy for all those whose lives have changed for ever.

But that's me....I don't do knee jerk reactions based on little information.