I was disturbed to read about the 2 babies taken from their daycare in Stonington, CT, by their grandmother, who then killed them and herself with a .38 caliber pistol.
It's horrid no matter what. But I keep going back to how easy guns make it TO KILL A PERSON.
Yeah, that's a terrible phrase. But it loses its sting when a trigger is pulled from afar; it might not seem real. I don't know; I've never killed a person.
But I did once kill a rattlesnake (long story for another time). With the sharp blade of a flat ended shovel. I felt the blade cut into his flesh, had to move the shovel back and forth to decapitate him. I felt it. I can still conjure the feeling and feel queasy in the pit of my stomach.
I've watched a couple movies where someone is killed with a pillow over the face to suffocation. They were both "mercy" killings, but still, the person holding the pillow had to feel the other person instinctively fight and thrash and push underneath. They had to feel it.
I'm not exactly advocating that murderers be made to feel their crime. I'm not advocating the crime. But at least shouldn't it be really hard TO KILL A PERSON? Shouldn't the killer feel it? And shouldn't it be harder than standing safely in a spot and pulling a trigger?
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