Killer Lottery

"The Lottery." If you know nothing about this short story, and you hear that title, you'll think the complete opposite of what it is really about. This story is filled with irony from the start til the end. Especially when Old Man Warner said "seventy-seventh year i been in the lottery, seventy-seventh time." That statement just made me wonder why all of them would sit around for seventy-seven of these lotteries, and not try and stop them? The thought of that just kills me. These people didn't even think twice about putting their families up to possibly be killed, that just blows my mind.