Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130727192403/@comment-4830106-20130730154116

CeroWest wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: And the mafia would never harm an innocent citizen. Not always the case, especially not today. While the Mafia usually wouldn't have businees messing around with innocent people, they have no restrictions about killing someone who gets in their way--whether that someone realizes it or not.

On the whole, organized crime syndicates are usually pretty aware that law enforcement takes murder a whole lot more seriously than gambling, bribery, and theft (in all its forms). That's why Roman robbed the Dust shop with five henchmen, when he could have easily done it himself. He wanted to make an impression to any bystanders and say: "Just stay out of the way, and no one gets hurt."

Of course, he didn't figure on someone--like Ruby--actually attempting to stop the robbery. Ok i meant they wouldn't do it completely unprovoked. Oh, yeah. In that case definitely. But that's really more just criminal common sense than anything particular to the mafia. If you've ever seen Goodfellas or Public Enemies, (or really just any organized crime movie ever) you have a little idea just how much of a liability psychopaths are to organized crime functions.