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Thanks for posting that, Rusty.
This tendency of ours to glamorize criminality and gunplay really needs a reality check. I say "ours" because I include myself in that number. I'm fascinated by Prohibition and Depression era gangsters and robbers (and more recent ones), too, just as youngsters these days glorify their swaggering "ganstas." But it's a miserable life, and often a short one. And the characters are usually quite stupid, too. Those rare smart crooks are the ones you never hear about.
I've always believed that one should be good at what one does. But I too have noticed that crime is the one area of human endeavor where the vast majority of its practitioners are not very good at what one would presume to be their chosen "craft."