How Safe is San Francisco??

I was watching the 11 o'clock news on ABC, when to my shock I heard that there was a shooting at the Metreon. A movie theater frequented by several USF students and myself.

An 18-year-old male was shot several times after a verbal altrication with another male in the lobby of the movie theater. The gun-man fled from the scene, but luckily there were police outside the theater and one followed him on foot, police said. Tthe 18-year-old died at San Francisco General Hospital, police said.

The reason for the initial arguement was not given, however to me that is beside the point, how does this affect those, like myself, living in San Francisco? How can one trully feel safe nowadays? Seriously, a movie theater is the last place you would expect that to happen.

I'm from Los Angeles, and I've been in the "ghetto" and even in those movie theaters I've never heard of something like this happening? How is it that someone can just shoot someone because of a verbal fight. That just doesn't make sense to me. More than anything it saddens me. What does an incident like this say about our society, we can't even be civil with one another anymore, that we resort to shooting? Not even physical fights, but actually involving weapons. Honestly where are we headed?