Ok.

Ah.

Um...

Are you f&^%ing kidding me? I found myself literally mouth a-gape watching this story.

Late edit here...I think this story may actually be fake - just cooked up by the news crew, the mother actually being an actor. I refuse to believe people are this stupid. They can't be!

It is a form of denial, and the refocusing of blame on others. Don't we see a lot of that today? It has become a common thread in education, and is apparently now a basis for allowing your kid to go do stupid things like go in a place where someone might have a gun, and think they will win.

Indeed, and I think that it is a poster board for just what people voted against this time. More and more are tired of hearing people blame others for their problems, and then watching political monsters on both sides use the problem to addict them to their need for free this that and the other. For examples of both sides, I would use Farm subsidies which get played with by both sides, as well as to support other industries.

Thank you, sir, for you common sense and connection to reality, that obviously is missing in that family.

I agree with what WS and Dorbrien said. They seem like distraught grieving parents trying to process the tragedy.

The arguments they're using are disturbing. She's saying people shouldn't go outside their assigned roles and take matters into their hands. I think this is completely wrong. It's great if a person making pizzas is also thinking up a new pizza oven, ready to use a defibrillator on someone having a heart attack, and ready to use a gun to stop an armed criminal. It's so wrong to tell him to just get back there and focus on the pizza dough.

She painfully described where the bullet entered, saying it must have been personal. If you're like me and not that accurate with a handgun, in a situation where you don't have time to aim you just hope to hit the target somewhere. I would be concerned about missing at 2 meters range. I would have no ability to make the bullets hit specific body parts.

When she speculates the shooter might have been motivated by something other than the armed robbery that was in progress, it's really sad. She's trying to process the reason her kid turned to crime. My heart goes out to her.

The police are not there to protect you from someone killing you in a robbery. They are there to organize the cleanup afterward and arrest the perpetrator. What could the police possibly do to protect you from someone who is in the room with you and has a gun?

Thanks Nickursis. Sad story. The parents are distraught and likely grieving. Their natural defense of their son is a knee jerk reaction.
The fact that he needed to rob the pizza hut to provide for his son is telling, after 50+ years of the great society, the economic opportunities for young men in the inner city is woeful. The message of victimization does nothing to encourage the rising above the status quo.
This story will be repeated on a daily basis
as long as collectivism rears its illogical head.