Men have died for less.
Things sometimes escalate, and it ceases being about the money.
Remember the killing at a family reunion a few years ago in Mississippi over the last barbecue?
We just need to choose our battles carefully.
I found the barbecue killing story:
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March 16, 2004
Mississippi Shooting over BBQ kills 1, injures 1
PEARL - A deadly weekend fight over barbecue has devastated Annette Brown's family.
Her nephew, Larry Harper, 56, died at his home on Mississippi 468 about 9 p.m. Saturday after he was shot at least once in the chest, relatives and police said.
Harper's nephew, Antonio Stapleton, 24, was in fair condition Monday at University of Mississippi Medical Center recovering from a shotgun blast to one of his legs.
"This is tearing us all apart," Brown said. "I had just talked to Larry. It hadn't been 30 minutes. He was jolly, laughing."
Larry Harper's son, Timothy Harper, said the shooting started after Stapleton and his father argued about some barbecue.
Stapleton was angry, Timothy Harper said, because "the barbecue was gone. He paid for it."
The family was planning to gather for a family reunion, Brown said. Instead, it will gather for Larry Harper's funeral, she said.
No charges have been filed.
"We're still trying to sort it out," said Pearl Police Chief Bill Slade, on Monday. "We're trying to figure out who shot first and why they both had guns."
Stapleton fired a .38-caliber pistol at least four times, Slade said. Larry Harper shot his nephew at least once with a shotgun, which spread pellets from Stapleton's knee to his groin, Slade said.
Timothy Harper said he ran into the back yard with a telephone and called for help as his cousin shot at his father. Stapleton crawled out of the house after he was shot.
"I heard him calling for me," Timothy Harper said. "He was asking me to help him. I never did get a chance to see (my father). The police came and wouldn't let me in the house."
A large blood stain on the living room carpet near the front door was the only visible sign something had happened in the house. Larry Harper had lived there his entire life, Brown said.
Brown pointed to a spot on the ground at the bottom of the porch stairs where emergency workers found Stapleton.
Differences between Larry Harper and Stapleton "had been building up," Timothy Harper said. The two had been drinking before the shooting started, he said.
Brown said she would have come over if she had known the two were fighting.
"They know I would have taken a switch to both of them," she said.
"I was close to both of them, my nephew and my great-nephew.
"We need to keep praying," she said. "The devil is busy. He is trying to take all of God's children."
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