[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.

[Mr. Lucky]

Thoughtful analysis. Well put.

[Cicero]

Scott Roeder's real motive was to punish Tiller for his past crimes. Only God is allowed to play that position.

Scott Roeder specifically said that he killed Tiller in order to prevent him from killing more babies in the future, not to avenge babies he killed in the past. And there was certainly a reasonable probability that Tiller would, indeed, have continued to kill more babies. This is not to say that the shooting was justified, but that the motive was to prevent future abortions, not past ones.

[Diplomat]

If you were in Tiller’s business, would you continue operating as if nothing happened?

What if you were the 2nd most prolific abortionist in the country?