it just makes me sad.

My dad’s a military man. Which is exactly why I should not have been surprised when we nearly got in a fist fight last week over this article

Now…I am the kind of person that actually respects human life. It seems that my dad does not. We were watching it on AC360, and about half way through they cut to some people in Huston reacting to what this man did. One of them was talking about how the people he killed were two illegal immigrants, as if that somehow justifies murder. At this comment, I let out an audible gasp of disgust.
My dad looked at me like I’d just rolled up the Constitution and smoked it.

Look, I am totally and completely anti-gun. I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER own one. I will never shoot one. People in this country seem to think that just because it’s in our Constitution, it’s a good idea. Well, it isnt. It isnt a good idea at all. But this is not the point. The 2nd Amendment is not the point. The point is that since when is PROPERTY is more valuable than HUMAN LIFE?

What kind of fucked up bizzarro world is this?

Now, I am in no way saying that those people should not have been punished. But there is this little thing called the JUSTICE SYSTEM. ROBBERY DOES NOT CONSTITUTE THE DEATH PENALTY.

Shooting two people who are a.) not physically harming you, b.) running away from you and c.) about to be aprehended by police (what that article doesn’t say is that the police were pulling into the driveway when the guy was pulling the trigger), is absolutely a horrifying thing to do, and I am just so saddened by the fact that people still seem to think we live in fucking Toombstone.