Puritans always seemed to have a reason to justify and action no matter how radical. They didn’t just justify killing people they also justified taking things like land that was not theirs by use of bible passages. The Pequot Indians shared their land with the Puritans. Sharing however, was not something the Puritans seemed to be good at. They wanted the Indians out of the picture and wanted the land for themselves. In an attempted to finally declare war, the Puritans used the killing of three people (one of which was an Indian kidnapper) to wage war against the Indians. A simple war however would not be enough to satisfy the Puritans. It was concluded that a war would only kill Indians that wanted to fight but not get rid of all of them and