"Then why not just shoot them" One day I was doing some grocery shopping and a some guy comes up and asks me how my relationship with Jesus was. I'm an atheist

"Then why not just shoot them" One day I was doing some grocery shopping and a some guy comes up and asks me how my relationship with Jesus was. I'm an atheist and said so and he began following me around the store trying out various talking points in an attempt to get me to attend the youth outreach concert/thing they were having that night. At one point he asks "What if some one were to rape your daughter and then shoot himself, you wouldn't care that he wouldn't be punished?" Think about that for a second. This was a youth pastor, a man who theoretically instructs the children of the United State on ethics and morality, who did not believe death was a sufficient punishment. ETA: and lest anyone think I might be exaggerating his stance, I actually called him on that several times. "Well I mean: he's dead, how is that not punishment" I asked immediately. I think 4 times we pushed at the sides of that point before he moved onto some other argument. Which is to say he was willing to defend the idea that death wasn't punishment enough.