The Saddest Part of This Story ...

... is that I have trouble imagining two Americans warming up to an argument about philosophy in the average liquor store checkout line. Per the Associated Press:

A police spokeswoman in Rostov-on Don, Viktoria Safarova, said two men in their 20s were discussing Kant as they stood in line to buy beer at a small store on Sunday. The discussion deteriorated into a fistfight and one participant pulled out a small nonlethal pistol and fired repeatedly.