Just a thought....
Over the weekend a man in Japan went on a killing rampage where he rammed his car into a group of people on a pedestrian mall in Tokyo's Akihabara district. He then jumped out with a knife, slashing everyone near him, and killing seven while injuring ten. He only stopped when police threatened to shoot him. He was heard saying that he "was tired of life."
What? If he's so tired of life then why doesn't he just "off" himself? Instead it somehow makes sense (to him) to kill other people who probably aren't as tired of life as he is, and probably had plans for the coming week involving work, other activities, and family. They're made to pay for him being depressed. He gets to live....and I kinda doubt that he'll consider that to be much punishment.
It reminds me of those two idiots, Dillon and Kleibold (sp?), who killed all those kids at Columbine High School (CO) in 1999. When you see all their videos and read their online blogs, they mostly complain about being bullied about at school and getting no respect from the "in crowd" - the athlete studs and stylish types - and how they're going to get their revenge by killing them all.
And what do they do? They head straight to the school library, where we know all the "in crowd" hangs out...athletes are in there all the time, right?....yeah, right....and they go after the same kids who are like them. The geeks, bookworms, and kids out of the mainstream. All of whom are defenseless and innocent, who did NOTHING bad to these two killers all their lives. Dillon and Kleibold were cowards, not the brave avengers they liked to think they were, and went after those who could not hit back at them, not the ones they were truly angry with.
I have absolutely no sympathy for those who think the answer to their problems is to attack the innocent. Hey, put the gun to your own head and solve the problem that way instead of putting it to the head of someone else who doesn't even know who you are or what your problem is. They have enough problems of their own and their's just might actually be worse than yours. But they've found a way to deal with it and it doesn't involve denying someone else of their life.
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