I've been trying to stay out of this one, but I am just amazed (maybe horrified would be a better word) at some of the heartless comments on this topic.
Maybe he made bad choices. Maybe he was running with the wrong crowd. But unless he went and shot someone else and they (or their friend/relative) were coming back for revenge, I'm not sure where the "he got what was coming to him" attitude comes from. Even if that was the case, I don't believe taking one life repays another.
Do any of you have children? Take 10 seconds and think about how it would make you feel if you knew you were going to leave them behind or, better yet, how they would feel. Talking about them being better off because they won't be in a court room, they'll be financially taken care of and/or saying their life expectancy just went up is unfathomable to me.
The lack of respect for human life that is being displayed here is unbelievable.
Yes, I have Children. And I knew before I had Children that one day I most likely would have children. That is why the choices in my life even before I were not ones that would lead me into drugs, alcohol, bad friends, and dead end jobs.
So if I take the 10 seconds you ask to think about how it would be if I knew I was leaving them behind, I can honestly say that at least they had a good example for a father and a husband and if they take that with them into their adult life than I would have done a good job as an example of how to be successful in life.
But then again if someone does bust into my home to take my life tonight, it won't be because of some sort of retaliation from an incident I was involved in. It will truly be a random murder. Taylor's child will grow up her whole life knowing that her daddy was murdered because someone put a bounty on his life for pissing them off.