Piracy reaction off target

Stephen Hunter had a nice perch for his commentary Sunday (“Snipers come of age, show steely minds”). He took advantage, sighting through his tunnel-vision scope, squeezing off a round, and leaving a tidy, red hole in the face of opposition to homicide as conflict resolution. The Golden Age of the Sniper.

Be proud, Lon Horiuchi, James Kopp, Lee Boyd Malvo and Lee Harvey Oswald. But never show the exit wounds or the mess strewn from the lifeboat across Africa and the Middle East. Never confess that this high seas adventure was the killing of someone else’s children by our children, with consequences.

Pointy-headed pundit I may be, but one with an expert marksman badge in my past, and a concern about killing in my name in my present. It is the future that frightens me, however, if it is none of my business when my government can only consider violent solutions which beget ever-widening violent responses.

And, what will golden snipers do when they are civilians?

Rusty Nelson

Rockford