Yet as much as he offers a tantalizing distinction between a "bad" mobster and a "good" one like Tony, who loves his family and kills only for a reason, the one-dimensional Richie is annoying, possibly more than the creators intended.
Jerry Capeci, who publishes a weekly column on the mob, Gang Land News, says: "The Godfather romanticised the gangsters and made them out to be people who killed only for reasons of honour.
The criminal justice system allows government officials to target and kill only when doing so is required for self-defense or for the defense of others, and when there is no reasonable opportunity to capture the person instead.
The major difference is that (**most**) animals consume or eat for survival, they kill only what they need to live.
That's a lot compared to other countries -- cops in Germany killed only 8 people in 2013-2014, for instance.
But the gun battle there with Afghan security forces, which lasted for hours, killed only five people two civilians and three members of the security forces.
It's been a remarkable success: Cyclone Gamede of 2007, a monster of a storm that set global meteorological records for rainfall, killed only two people on the island.
