Or he might have shot his parents, too, and then himself. And THEN where would we be?!

Little Hawk sez: "Some assassins also feel highly motivated and justified in what they are doing, as in the case of religiously or politically motivated assassinations." True; I wasn't really thinking of them when I wrote my "point (c)"; I was thinking of the assassins in Jon's argument who are paid to kill, but I was assuming he meant those who have no personal reasons for murdering. Then again, religiously or politically motivated assassins often receive nothing but the satisfaction that they are living by their convictions (while, of course, their victims are not living at all!).

KimC: But a blow-dart is a weapon, too, isn't it? How about telling the Alaskans to become vegetarians instead, and to till the permafrost to grow their food? /:^)

SharonA