This fella I was talking about that I met in rehab...the guys that broke in knew he had the dog...and it was no chiuawua..it was an agressive pit bull terrier, but they new he had buds ripe in the closet, when they came in the first thing they did was shoot the dog. The guy told me this is what drove him to WANT to kill them, his dog, like many of ours, was his best friend. They were all armed...IMO he had every right to do what he did, and evidently the judge saw it that way to, all 3 of the theives were repeat offenders.
This is also a good lesson in the TELL NO ONE rule...they knew what they were after somehow!
I still have problems with things that happened in the military, mine are more aimed at not being able to save a couple buddies from dieing, than any remorse for doing my job ( I guess this statement is not really true, but this is not where I was intending to go with this conversation)...but this guy seemed to have no remorse for what he did...maybe he was just good at conceiling it, I didn't know him that well. Just a guy from a rehab group.