Why is it that I have to verify my intention to print off a document, and not my intent to fire a weapon? That is fairly backwards as far as I can tell.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for saving a tree, and twenty-two cents worth of ink, but I'm also totally for putting a little extra thought into each bullet that gets shot.
"I'm gonna kill that bastard!"
"Are you positively sure that the bastard deserves to die?"
"Hell yes! He had sex with my wife!"
"OK then, do what you have to do."
It's not going to stop the common psychopath, or engraged lover, but what if it made somebody think twice, and decide that they actually did love their mother or father? What if the general public had two extra seconds do dive out of the way? What if that guy on the 405 had to double-click something in order to shoot your face off after you failed to use your turn signal?
Obviously, killing in general is uncalled for. I wish that I was creative enough to stop it. The best that I could ever hope for, though, is to slow it down a bit. Give Bambi another second. Make the crazies wait. One more moment might be what we all need. Think twice before ending a life.
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