[Recon Dad]

Calling the killing “a cowardly act,”

Pulling that trigger is definitely not cowardly, it's hard to pull that trigger.

[Misterioso]

Take it from an old trigger puller. Right, Dad?

[hinckley buzzard]

You are correct. The attribution of cowardice for an act of decisiveness is the last refuge of the self-defeated.

One can endorse the act or condemn it, it really doesn't matter-- but it was in no way cowardly, given that the man was certain to be known and recognized and apprehended. He may well have anticipated the death penalty and yet submitted quietly. That is not the action of a coward.

"Give me liberty or give me death."

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Cowards?