Response to Caitlin's Blog #8 Assassinations

This is a very interesting story.  I am also surprised at the humanity of the assassins and how they avoided shooting into a group of children in order to kill Pancho Villa.  When you think of almost all other assassinations the shooting was done in very public places in front of many people.  Some examples I can think of off the top of my head are JFK, President Lincoln, and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.  All three assassinations were done in very public places were innocent people could be injured, and some were.  But on the other hand, I can see why the assassins didn't shoot into the group of children to get to Villa.  For the first part, children are seen as innocent and not worthy of such harsh cruelty, which saves them from some cruel acts.  Another option is that the men lived in the town and had connections to the children.  Information didn't travel anywhere near as fast as it does today, so in order to catch Villa off guard, they had to be ready at a moments notice to get the chance at taking his life.  That would make it much more likely that the men were from that town and thus didn't want to shoot at their children or people that they knew.  Overall, I think there are many different things that could have kept the men from shooting Villa when they first had the chance, and unfortunately we will never know the complete truth.