In the end, we're all responsible for our actions. That's the way I was brought up anyway. Sounds like he used his brother's death to behave badly, and there are always fools who try to make excuses for people like him. Plenty of other people in uniform have suffered devastating losses, but they didn't commit criminal acts as a result.
Agreed. There are a lot of people out there who have had tragedy in their lives. A lot of ghetto criminals witness crime and brutality and have parents who are gone or on drugs. We don’t let them off the hook because they have a legitimate sad story. This guy is not some good kid who snapped after seeing the horrors of war, although even that would not excuse murdering someone. Its a kid with a history of crime and anger issues who continued to have those issues and they ultimately ended in the real tragedy — the killing of an innocent person.