Of course, the outcome of this situation was better than the alternative -- it's better that the armed robbers were stopped, rather than harm coming to the couple -- but, really, the best possible outcome would have been if NO ONE had been killed.
The assailants chose the outcome of the events. Nowhere in the story is there any indication that either of them was coerced in any way to commit a home invasion.
I'll be 49 years old a week from today. In that near half-century, I have never ONCE committed a home invasion or an armed robbery. I come from the second worse part of Chicago. Yet somehow I've managed not to commit any violent crimes, much less home invasions.
If you commit a violent crime against someone and end up dead or seriously wounded because of it, whose fault is that? That's right, YOURS. The deceased would have nor more right to complain about his fate than would a grown man who stuck a fork in a wall socket.
I guess you can't repeat that old Marine Corps saying enough, "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid."
I have not one IOTA of sympathy for the two simpletons who got shot. They made their beds, and they were for sure on fire when they lay down upon them. I have sympathy for children with pediatric AIDS, for the people (other than the hijackers) who died on 9/11 and their families, for people who get food poisoning at fast food restaurants, for the victims of the Holocaust, and for everybody else who encounters misfortune through little or no fault of their own. I have NO sympathy for people who bring misfortune down on their own heads with both hands. It's not a shame that people like these two get shot. It's a shame that MORE of them don't get shot, SOONER, before they can harm as many people in this world as they do.
The buffoon who payed for his buffoonery with his life lived a trivial life and died a trivial death, and in my opinion, not a moment too soon.
