Originally Posted by: heknowsnothingstop making a big deal that it was his own people. Does it matter who's people he killed? Are you saying it would make it alright if he killed Jews, or Americans?

No, it doesn't matter that it was his own people or others. But the fact that it was his own really adds to the grotesquery of the crime. It can't be confused with killings under that nifty little banner we know as war. It makes the evil even more heinous.