[newzjunkey]

The ends cannot ever be allowed to justify the means else you agree to tyranny and anarchy. Your kind of justification means we should just rip up the U.S. Constitution since its words have no meaning.

Kip Kinkle, 15, killed four people, including his own parents, and wounded 22 more.

According to 1997 juvenile crime statistics, 1700 juveniles were involved in 1400 murders that year. One hundred thirty of these murders were perpetrated by a female. Approximately eighty percent of juvenile murders involve the use of a firearm. Forty percent of these crimes involve two or more juvenile offenders. Fifty six percent of the victims in these crimes are acquaintances of the murderer and 34 percent are strangers. Source.

[Petronski]

The ends cannot ever be allowed to justify the means else you agree to tyranny and anarchy.

I'm not justifying the means. I'm saying I like the ends. I'm saying I got the result I wanted through a constitutionally fraudulent process. The result is still what I wanted but the processess is still constitutionally fraudulent.