[Artemis Webb]

The guys running the backhoe were not soldiers, or cops. They didn't have a way to defend themselves, nor should they have had to. You need to worry more about where your sense of right and wrong are then you do about my misuse of apostrophes.

[Chances Are]

I'm not justifying the shootings in any way. You're the one who invoked the analogy (which doesn't apply).

I know the workers were innocent and vulnerable, and the shootings shouldn't have happened. Of course, the town fathers could have handled the guy and the situation with a lot more aplomb than they did.

But the point is, the guy wasn't trying to start a revolution. He was apparently just a guy who couldn't handle it any more, and so he snapped. It's happened before, and it'll doubtless happen again.

Thanks for the insight into my high degree of moral depravity. Know the feeling's mutual.

CA....