"The parents are trying to make their son the victim,"
That is obvious, and the most likely reason parents would irrationally deny their child's criminal responsibility for his own death is also obvious.

CG reread the title of this thread and the accompanying story .The parents are trying to make their son the victim, that he is not responsible for his being shot while robbing a business to take care of his son. This has been taught , and as the fix for poverty by the liberals that has destroyed the inner cities and the value to the work force of these young men. Get educated ,get off of their asses and get a job and that gives them a future. Just like you did!

Yes. I like specialization for efficiency, but I hate this notion of not going out of assigned roles.

Someone posted audio from a 911 call here a few years ago. The 911 operator, probably do her job as instructed, told the caller to lie low and take no action. The caller thankfully did not comply and instead shot a criminal who was on a murdering rampage.

When someone tries to rob a store with gun, it has little to do with the identity group issues you talk about and everything to do with that person's decision.

"Whitelashing" - Van Jones...

"Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?" - maybe so he could defend himself from criminal thug losers like your son!!! A lot of people have "fallen on hard times" without resorting to crime.

So true.

For a while during the 70's, I lived in a dry county that neighbored Tuscaloosa County.
The local yokels, especially the ones who voted dry for religious reasons, called the city of Tuscaloosa "Sin City."
Ha, me dino went to that "Sin City" almost every weekend with or without a date, Dry counties have no discos and the one I lived in did not even have one decent movie theater. There was a crappy one only black kids went to, marking up the movie screen by throwing soft drinks at it.
Had one opportunity to vote "wet" and did, but that county since Prohibition has remained dry to this day.
Guess moonshine stills are still being blown up there.
Yeah, I know what Las Vegas is called.

My grown son has one of those and at least a couple of pistols too.

From another hemisphere.... shocking story. Equally shocking the mother talking so calmly and even analyzing the reasons "...a shot to the head is personal..."

If an actress, she fails to play the inconsolable mother. If genuine mother, it's shocking how calmly she speaks.

Exactly! Heinlein is, and has always been, my favorite author. Reading his books as a kid set me straight on just what right and wrong is, without any complicated discussion. Would have made excellent movies, if done as written. Might be R or X rated if some of the later books were done, but I'm ok with that.

Nope, look at the parents of the bum in Ferguson, they still say he was murdered. Maybe he was, bt it was a suicide, self inflicted murder.

I'm still waiting for myAR15 Bushmaster to arrive at the gun dealer, then it's off to find some bullets.

Well said, and very true.

The parents are so quick to make excuses for their son "doing the wrong thing." Is robbing anyone under any kind of threat of violence right or wrong? Natural law says it is wrong and the victim has the right to defend themselves. What if they killed him with a blow to the head with a bat or stabbed him? If he was so righteous and "fell on hard times," why were they not helping him. A local church or other charities might have helped him. I feel bad for their loss, but the lives we are living are the lives we have created (with few exceptions),

Number 2 is a measure of how deep the dysfunction is.

Exactly! Behave and no one gets hurt, when someone doesn't stick to that rule, then they get hurt, look at 80 years of westerns.

An armed society is a polite society. Robbing someone is a very rude thing to do.

Agreed . +1 peterchunt see video from my recant post Trump Protesters destroyed by human being.

"Why the hell did this guy have a gun?"

He was just doing his rounds collecting money :)
How will you feel getting shot while just doing you job?

This world is going totally crazy... ;)

Reason Trump got elected.

Heinlein nailed it.

So, it would seem that "stupid" runs in that family, then.

VERY depressing! Transference of responsibility. And the lawyers are circling.

Victim based collectivity spawned BLM .Slavery for Blacks in this country ended 150 years ago.
Yet retribution is a frequent topic recently proposed by the UN. Biden talks of "the white man wants to shackle you". Another of Obama's race czars said Trumps win was a "whitelashing".
Collectivism sacrifices the individual for the good of the group.Collectivists put the blame on anything but their own actions. Witness your Clinton campaign blaming Comey , blaming
The basket of deplorables ,the ignorant Uneducated whites. Sanders gang blames Clintons dirty tricks.
The progressives blame white privilege .
Denial is not the norm for humanity it is the norm for Collectivists.