I’m trying to think that way because it looks like the right thing....
but I can’t. This saved a lot of people from being his future victims. It can be a good thing when punk crooks and bullets collide.
You can do both. Feeling pity for his death not only looks like the right thing, it is the right thing to do.
Pity is not the same as remorse that he was killed. Chances are good he’d have carried on the same way until he got killed anyway, or locked up. Not many people can get out of that vile gang banger culture once they get sucked into it, and most do get sucked in rather than wanting to be in it. As you rightly said, this has probably saved a lot of people a lot of grief.
How can you feel pity when you are cheering that the punk kid is dead? I can’t mix the two feelings together. When criminals die, I want to cheer their death not mope in sorrow.
Sorry, I didn’t intent to mislead with my black humor.
I have the same sympathy for thugs that they do for the people they victimize. If they choose to beat up and rob people then we’re all better off without them. The youthfulness of the thugs doesn’t sway me in the slightest. The younger ones are often the most violent.