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A public support of Mosby, for instance, upon his shooting of fellow U.Va. student
Robert Turpin in 1852, helped clear the young man's name.
In fact, it can be asserted that the incidence of conviction and harsh penalty
for crimes in the antebellum South was less than other regions "simply because of
indifference toward violence itself".

Actually, it was more likely because the dead guy "needed kilt".

What is funny is that I (a cultural Oklahoma-Texan) will occassionally let slip
that some criminal in the news "had it coming" when executed or shot by police or
citizens.
What is funny is that one of my co-workers (an immigrant from one of the
Baltic States) says my little rants remind her of her husband (from Kiev, Ukrania)
as he will occassionally rant at the TV during prolonged police car chases with
a "why the h-ll won't the cops just blast the hood of the car with a couple
of machine gun rounds?".

We do have a North-South divide on self-defense/punishment in the USA...but the
divide occurs throuought the world.

As singer/actor Jerry Reed said when portraying a contract killer in a film
"I put a high value on human life".
And so do Southerners who want that right to protect their lives and others.

OK...sorry for the rant...