It is truly sad as a Christian that I can now feel so much hate and am unable to feel much remorse for my wishing people dead, after the Beslan massacre. I never thought I would stoop to such horrid thoughts, but I think that little boy who was run through with the bayonet just deadened me to any ability to love our enemies.
For me its not hatred, its merely justice. We are expected to love our enemies. I love dogs, but if one of them contracts rabies you don't hesitate to put him down.
No one who is driven by love could hesitate to pull the trigger on the authors of this crime. Remorse would be misplaced. An appreciation of the tragic would be in order for any innocents who die in the course of delivering justice to these men, as well as for the innocents who have already died.
But not remorse, I think.
The authors of the crime at Beslan have already signed their own death warrants and there is no reason to flinch at what has to be done.
It gives some insight into the implacable enmity against the Amelekites in the Old Testament.
The Chechens are begging to be Russia's Amelekites.
I wish your hypothetical Russian assassin good aim.