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I've a good mind to kill you right now.
Over on Channel Five, A Mind to Kill had 1.6 million, or 7% of the audience.
One of Madoc's most interesting characters was DCI Noel Bain in A Mind to Kill, a television detective series made simultaneously in Welsh and English between 1994 and 2002.
Although Y Gwyll was cunningly shot twice, in Welsh and English, to double its saleability – a trick first pulled by Aberyswyth CSI-foreshadowing 90s police hit A Mind to Kill – language is no longer a barrier.
"If we're serious about keeping guns away from someone who's made up his mind to kill, then we can't allow a situation where a responsible seller denies him a weapon at one store, but he effortlessly buys the same gun someplace else," the president wrote.
Having a mind to kill, at least in any systematic fashion, means that your mind is ready-warped; that the warping may well have started long before, perhaps in childhood; and that you may perhaps seek out, or be drawn to, areas of sensation — notably those entailing sex or violence — which can encourage, inflame, or accelerate the warping.
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Are they out of their minds to kill themselves in such brutal fashion?
Suddenly, it became OK in their minds to kill innocent people to avenge some real or imagined slight against their belief system.
Nabil's 'new' car turned out to be stolen with only one purpose in mind - to kill as many of the hated enemy as possible.
Setting out to explore "social compliance", the weak and weaselly and all-too-human conviction that "others know best", he was following on from the work of Stanley Milgram and Solomon Asch but, crucially, doing so in an age of social media, when some souls apparently can't be trusted to not be swayed on their favourite colour, never mind willingness to kill.
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