heh no I didn't post my condolances, although I'm normally a 'green party' member. The main reason is that it's kind of hypocritic to say it's a shame if you're not a vegetarian (IMHO of course (I'm not a vegetarian, and neither is the vast majority of this country )) and wear leather shoes. Also, our country has the most fur breeding farms (I don't know the english name for 'nerts' which is a small animal which is very furry) in the world but the animals are living under horrible conditions. No-one complaints (well, no-one, not a lot actually ) about that.
Although I found it of course completely unnecessary to kill the little sparrow, it also could have been caught and released outside. What surprised me also was that there was a person at hand with a gun (airgun, but still) while we have a strict gun ban here, even for airguns.