“I wonder where society went wrong with these gentlemen? I hope they get adequate rehabilitation and can return to society as productive citizens in a couple of years.”
The wife of one of the victims must be an Obama supporter:
"But I believe that these men really are good people, they just had bad circumstances. They just had bad things that...that were in their heart and...and um caused them to do this".
Scary to me that people are too afraid to call evil people evil any more.
In the big picture, excuse-makers like this are just as much a part of the problem as the perps. This is the sort of thinking that has allowed career criminals to keep getting put back on the streets, and career "juvenile" criminals to end up with no criminal record. If it weren't for the excuse-makers and the politicians they help elect, the neighborhoods full of career criminals wouldn't exist, because they'd all be locked up, instead of roaming the streets committing crimes and inspiring another generation to do the same. Some of them would actually straighten out, if they were locked up for years after their first "minor" offense, instead of being allowed to go right back to associating with the crowd that inspired them to commit their first crime.