>Someone should have jumped up and beaten Binger down.<
My thoughts exactly. If I was on the jury, there would have been an outburst...”Are you crazy! Alec Baldwin just killed someone doing that! Take that weapon away from him!”
That's the reaction the persecutor/prosecutor was hoping for. He was hoping that by pointing the gun at the jurors the jurors might have sympathy for Kyle's attackers -- equating Kyle's possession of a gun with aiming a gun.