Killing and The Psychological Cost.

[M. Demetrius]

I wrote in a novel once, about a man leaving Texas in 1835 who was stopped by two highwaymen, they being disguised as Mexican soldiers. He was Anglo, but had learned to speak Spanish, so he understood that they were planning to kill him and divide up his gear. He shot them both off their horses with his 10ga shotgun, and for years would have nightmares: seeing them in slow motion falling over the horses to the ground. I think it might be like that, should that happen to someone. Self defense or not, it must be a difficult thing to live with. At least that's how I wrote it.