Rift....

You're expending energy trying to either drum up, or show your sympathy for this piece of shit who killed a cop.

You're too caught up in the modern propensity to absolve and remove personal responsibility from individual actions in your attempts here to explain away the fact that this kid is a murderer and cop killer. Society or his environment didn't pull that trigger.

While I don't discount environment in someone's upbringing and personality development, sometimes a dangerous sociopath is just a dangerous sociopath.

You're quick to blame his family situation as part of what led to his becoming a killer, yet when pointing your finger away from him in society's direction, I see no reflection on our modern gutter pop culture that glorifies gang and thug activity as acceptable behavior.

This kid deserves to die for what he did. All the fault for his actions lie squarely on his shoulders.

Also.... The "Lord of the Flies" was more a story about human nature itself than it was about kids.