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Respect: Respect - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Two of the definitions seem to apply to the subject at hand:
So do you want me to pay attention to you, or think highly of you?
Respect is earned. This is just another common misuse of a word by someone with poor social skills, they same way "honor" used to be misused. You cannot offend someone's honor. Honor is how you treat other people. Ego is how you expect others to treat you. Your ego was offended, not your honor. Get over yourself.
I feel "respect is earned" is a misused phrase. Do we start of with a complete lack of respect for others? Is it transactional? You scratch my back, i scratch yours? Lets just all follow the golden rule and call it good!
On topic.....i would imagine a simple comment started it. Isn't that ususally how escalation of this manner occurs?
"I'll do this!"
"Oh yeah? Well i'll do this"
"Really? Well you wanna talk to my loud friend?"
"You're too punk to pull that"
"Oh yeah?"
"Ha, a boys gonna shoot a man, right...."
Blam!
How he got a gun, where he got a gun, all that isn't as worrying to me as what was in his head that made it ok to shoot someone over words. Like Dave brought up, how do you identify and prepare for these types of risk? Get on a bus with the wrong group of people and they may feel your slight bump as you got on was enough to require escalation to violence. I'd think in this case, that he just hadn't gotten caught yet. Without a gun being pointed at them first, a sane person doesn't do this type of thing, i doubt this is the first time this guy has done something dangerous or criminal.