It isn’t bad if you do it for a good reason.

The most good of all reasons is protection.

Everyone agrees you can kill to protect people. The military does it, the police do it, even regular people do it. You can protect yourself and you can protect others.

No matter how much force you use, how justified your response truly was, as long as it’s to protect someone it’s ok.

I’ve spent a long time wishing I could protect people. Like those shows on the tv where heroes, who used to be everyday people like me, shot the bad guys dead and saved the helpless victims. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be like them, the women who wore tight leather that showed off the holsters on their thighs. The men with the stone cold faces as they delivered justice. A long time wishing.

But, wishing doesn’t get you anything. You have to do things to get things that you want.

They wouldn’t let me in the army, but they let me buy a gun.

Oh what a mistake that was.