[Piranha]

You are not the first parent to consider this as a "There but for the grace..." sort of situation.

However, you should consider that she wasn't demonstrating at Evergreen State, or in Berkeley or San Francisco, or New York, or even in Tel Aviv. If she were simply demonstrating, she should not have been killed, and I would feel very sorry for her family, despite their political beliefs.

Instead, she was in a warzone. Her presence was illegal. She was crouching in front of a bulldozer and trying to prevent the soldiers, who were engaged in a military action at that very moment, from destroying tunnels that were used to smuggle weapons to kill innocent civilians.

She showed a reckless disregard to her own life as well as those of the murderers' victims.

[kimmie7]

Don't mistake me - I agree with what you're saying. But from a Christian viewpoint, it's always sad to 'lose one'.