Some people can’t appreciate a set up by God where simply telling the truth (as was told in the lede article) sets up the exact right moral lesson. They have to try to gild the lily.
Nobody in the PP was shot. This is exactly in line with the mercy of God that is a gift, not an obligation of His. But it is a gift that He gives on a promise conditioned on embracing His particular love.
ALL human souls are tainted by some act of will of participation in the fall of mankind, if we are to believe the bible. Even those “innocent babies.” Mere justice would dump the lot of us in hell.