Reply #4: without guns, Jeremiah would have a bloody nose or whatever...

[mike_c]

...some of his stuff would be lost, and Keene would be alive. Add the guns so he could "defend" himself from fleeing people and suddenly a little girl is killed.

Yes, there are bad motives and awful judgement aplenty to go around. But the fact remains, no one needed to die in this dispute, and no one would have died if the shooter did not have a gun at hand. His pride would have suffered a bit.