"When you hang a man, usually he has a chance to talk, or... say goodbye, write a letter. Besides, a Creedmoor - it's a Creedmoor, isn't it? - must make a pretty good mess of a human. When you hit a guy from five hundred yards out, say, why, the suddenness of it he don't even have a few seconds to make his act of contrition. Not only that but you never have to look him in the eye. Right there, that makes all the difference."This old boy in Wyoming, he sat down on the ground just to pull sand burrowers out of his trousers, and his skull just suddenly flew into pieces about the size of your thumbnail. That was the first time I ever heard the term, 'regulator'."
(Jack Nicholson as Tom Logan, The Missouri Breaks)
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