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Originally Posted by molson
I would say I was surprised it doesn't happen more often except, it does. The hyper-neighborhood watchman angle is a little different, but there's a pretty big, and sad, number of killings starting over some confrontation about nothing. Really, except for domestic violence killings (which the media doesn't care hardly at all about for some reason), and killings committed after some dumb in-the-moment confrontation (which the media cares about if the circumstances are interesting enough) - we're pretty good as a country at not killing each other.
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Even so, you're probably right that you would think it happens more often. I also think people are extremely frustrated with so many things right now that people are capable of snapping a lot quicker when something like this starts. In addition, one can't be seen as the one who backs down for any reason. Simply have to show that you're "right" and the other person is "wrong" and if you won't back down, and they won't back down, it's not going to end well in some cases.