I wish that people who are really into Quentin Tarantino movies would read this so they could see what killing is really like. Even people with professional training will feel an emotional impact after killing someone, even if the killing was fully justified...and they don’t deliver cheesy one-liners.
Movies have replaced real life for most people.
Taking someone elses life is not exciting or heroic. Its something you do because you HAVE to, and even then, the normal person will agonise and have nightmares and, as the author says, second-guess themselves.
People like Tarantino do enormous damage. I know that technically his direction and camera angles and use of color are all excellent, but the message of his films is IMHO, immoral in extremis.
What a load of unadulterated crappola. I've known a lot of warriors in my day. Guys who fought in every war from WWII thru Korea and 'Nam and now the WOT. I speak to them as we wait for our VA Clinic Appointments. I speak to my friends returning from the Theater of Operations. I can't think of a single one showing a SHRED of remorse for having efficiently eliminated an enemy combatant. I remember the horror of a reporter who asked a special forces sniper what he felt when he killed a tango at long range and he stonily replied: What do I feel? Recoil.
Go over to YOU TUBE and do any kind of search you want on combat videos. Tell me if the Marines or soldiers sound sad when they kill an enemy combatant. EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE #2 (warning language!)
Now translate that home to a police officer standing between you and the wolves. He knows the liberals expect him to feel great remorse and this he shows until it's time to go behind closed doors with his buddies and break out the beer. Don't think the same thing doesn't happen after a successful self defense by anybody besides a liberal who feels the gawd awful guilt trips laid upon him by spineless sniveling vermin who would rather knuckle under and crawl before they'll hurt any living thing.
If you want to know more about the effect of legally sanctioned killing on those who do the killing on behalf of the rest of us, LtCol. David Grossman has written several books on the subject. He is a psychologist, as well as a US Army ranger (now retired) and ROTC instructor at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.