A man who beat a nun over the head with a flashlight and then strangled her to quiet her moans pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in federal court Friday under a deal that saved him a possible mandatory life sentence….Prosecutors said Carroll, who just turned 21, confessed to breaking into the nun’s trailer home around midnight Nov. 1, 2009, in search of money and items that could be traded for cash or drugs and alcohol. He attacked Bartz with a flashlight her after she hit him with a slipper as he entered a bedroom, hitting her over the head five or six times and kicking her as she lay on the ground, he acknowledged in court on Friday. He then resumed rummaging through the trailer, going back to tie a shirt around her mouth and neck after she began moaning.
Bad justice tag, because this beast will walk free again, and prison is a poor rehabilitation center. Also I have no idea how this order of Nuns stand on self-defense, but a gun is a LOT better than a slipper. But those who use “Gun Death” as a metric have no issue with us being brained by a flashlight in our homes.
This should give you some idea of the American branch of the Catholic Church’s stance on guns.