02-17-2011, 02:32 AM
In a nutshell, I'm still of the robbery gone wrong mindset. I hope remorse is setting in for those who brutally took two lives for $83 and perhaps a few pills. What does $80 buy these days? About two cartons of cigarettes? Two tanks of gas? Such a waste.
A bit of an aside. I'm a former banker. I worked as a bank teller in my college years. Unfortunately, I happen to have been on the other end of a few armed robberies. I've never understood why someone would risk several years in prison in order to score a few grand. Heck, in a low paying job, you'd earn more in a few months, than robbing an occasional bank - (unless you empty the safe, and that's very unlikely.) So, even from a purely fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense.
Sorry to stray. I simply have trouble with the mindset. Even if I were cold and callous enough to victimize others for what seems like easy money - for purely selfish reasons I wouldn't care to spend my life looking over my shoulder.
I can't even begin to imagine how it would feel to have taken a life.
A bit of an aside. I'm a former banker. I worked as a bank teller in my college years. Unfortunately, I happen to have been on the other end of a few armed robberies. I've never understood why someone would risk several years in prison in order to score a few grand. Heck, in a low paying job, you'd earn more in a few months, than robbing an occasional bank - (unless you empty the safe, and that's very unlikely.) So, even from a purely fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense.
Sorry to stray. I simply have trouble with the mindset. Even if I were cold and callous enough to victimize others for what seems like easy money - for purely selfish reasons I wouldn't care to spend my life looking over my shoulder.
I can't even begin to imagine how it would feel to have taken a life.