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The following is a Counterpoint:

By Sharon Nystrom

You coward, you evil skunk, you worthless piece of humanity. Yes, you who laid in wait to shoot a hardworking man in a store crowded with holiday shoppers. For a few pieces of silver.

For what? Your next high? There are places to help you with your problem.

Because you do not work? There are plenty of jobs open if you need sustenance, and places where you can get help with a mortgage, food for your table, clothes for your worthless back or a bed with clean sheets provided by the people you choose to threaten.

Toys for your kids at Christmas? Even that can be supplied by the good folk of Greensboro.

What do you think you can buy with the blood-tainted money you stole from a defenseless man, who had a family that now and forever will be without him?

You exist in a very giving community, and you could have gotten any kind of help you needed, but all you really gained was a weight that will grow heavier with every breath you take. You took a life for coins. I might compare you with another who did the same. Remember Judas?

What you did was cruel, senseless and produced panic in the good people who were out shopping for their families at Christmas. You are a dark shadow who invades our collective souls. May your hands burn every time you touch that money. You will never sleep well again.

You deserve no help or holidays.

It is my fervent hope that you are quickly apprehended and dealt with summarily. There is no pardon for what you did. We will go on, as all good American people do, but you will forever be known for your despicable act. It will show on your face, invade your every thought and give you nothing but sleepless nights.

The writer lives in Greensboro.