Killing things...? Options

[Blakout16]

basically, i post this at 3 in the morning because an excursion that happend not 30 minutes ago. my parents a respectful home owners w/ 1 dog and 3 cats (only one that lives outside) and the dog is inside only .... they set up a live trap to catch the dastardly racoons that occupy our area and tend to steal our cat food, no big right? just cat food and thats all it has been for the past 5 years living in this house, none of our cats have been killed cuz of another animal. which at this point i dunno if its me but i find it pretty cruel to live trap a animal just to drag the trap to the nearby rocks (right next to the celi) to shoot it, keep this in mind im hoping nothing ricochets off the rocks and some how nails my car or the blood splatter. me living in the sticks all my life you'd think i'd be pretty accustomed to things being killed by a gun... yeah im not... my parents think im weird. but i couldnt watch them kill it i had to turn my music up on the head phones and drown it out. this thing didnt go down with a fight neither - it released it self of all its bodily possesions, poop and all. staining the deck. on inspection of the dead body i noticed his teeth had crowding and major plaque build up (my mother is a hygeniest... she was joking around) but the reason of this post was to get on what people think of live trapping an animal then killing it...