[marron]

If a private individual is justified in assassinating Hitler because Hitler is obviously evil...

The writer hasn't offered any means to draw the distinction by which Hitler might be stopped. When the law can not resolve a conflict, when the law is itself the problem, you are in a state of war by definition.

[ohioWfan]

If you follow that reasoning to its logical conclusion then widespread murder of all doctors who perform abortions is justified in your "state of war."

That may satisfy emotional impulses, but it defies the laws of God which are higher than our own feelings.

Murder is a sin.

[presidio9]

The writer hasn't offered any means to draw the distinction by which Hitler might be stopped. When the law can not resolve a conflict, when the law is itself the problem, you are in a state of war by definition.

The differnce between killing Hitler and killing Tiller is that hopefully you are killing Hitler to cut of the head and stop break insanity. Tiller may have been one of the few doctors who performed partial birth abortions, but even Scott Roeder new that killing him wouldn't change things much. Scott Roeder's real motive was to punish Tiller for his past crimes. Only God is allowed to play that position.