Met a guy after he got out of prison for drunk driving and killing someone. I don’t know the details but he wouldn’t go anywhere near alcohol, so at least he’s trying to be better.

Also I have met quite a few War Veterans over the years.

My dad killed his friend in a drunk driving accident back in 1986.

Yes, he told me about it. It was an interesting story to say the least.

I was in the US Army for 6 years, soo there is that.

I grew up poor white trash in the US south, soo there is that.

As far as i know, i have met only one person like this.

A guy i knew in “highschool” (kinda equilevant) killed his friend a few years later while both were drunk and had just come out of sauna. He thought that his girlfriend had cheated on him with the other guy and woops, axe to the back.

I know I have. Back in 2010 or thereabouts, this guy at work who I trained to run the shift opposite of me is now in prison for multiple murders.

Anyone from Poland remember the case in the news about a guy murdering people so he could take over their property? Yeah, that one…

EDIT: Just for the record, I’ve known many poles over the years, and I’ve liked most of you. Except that guy. He was fucking weird. Don’t remember his exact name, but he went by Winnie/Vinny, or something like that.

Yeah, I think I’ve met 3 murderers, two before they murdered, one after the fact.

One was mentally unstable and sad, then made fun of, second I met was kind and normal, third was dumb bulky drug dealer that was also kind.

None of them were evil or psychopaths or any of those typical traits and it made me think that to become a murdered you have to be both unlucky and triggered in a meaningful way.

I once gave a friend of a friend a condescending chewing-out after they did something hurtful.

Some time later our mutual friend informed me that they had died, but declined to tell me the cause of death.

Much later I discovered it was self-caused.

… Were my words too much? We spend our lives trying to be more effective communicators. What if we’re too effective when it matters most?

My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.

When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.

Edit: My grandfather killed some Nazis in WW2. Several former coworkers killed people in the line of duty as soldiers. And, I worked as a records clerk at a nursing home, so I knew several doctors and nurses that had taken people off life support.

I killed someone. It’s a called a dead name for a reason.

If you want to test this, start up conversations with the combat vets around you. You might not like the answers. That’s the vast majority of killers I’ve known (that I’ve known).

I work in healthcare, I’ve removed… so many people from life support. I often wonder if that’s, not the same, but…

I’ve met many people that have killed people. I didn’t think that was all that unusual. I know for sure two people I’ve met had killed people and there’s a whole bunch more that range from maybe to probably.