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You just shot an unarmed man!
— Little Bill Daggett · Unforgiven
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker charges someone with the grave act of shooting a man who had no weapon. The exclamation carries alarm and accusation, stressing that the victim posed no armed threat and implying that the act was serious, hard to justify and morally troubling.
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