You do not get to attempting armed robbery/home invasions at 4 a.m. all at once.
It takes a while to develop that mind set.
Those young men could have made good citizens/soldiers, with decent role models, schooling, and patriotic education. Learning about Jesus would have helped a lot.
I agree in principle that these boys could’ve become something. I also agree the Holy Spirit can render amazing changes in a willing soul but I’m also coming to believe that these teens and the millions like them are broken mentally. When behavior modeling in fatherless homes includes other dysfunctional norms, their brains become wired in those directions and then get worse from there. Rehabing that behavior, those things they missed, is a long uphill battle and a mammoth effort that few understand and even fewer can give. That’s why severely dysfunctional people and Muslim immigrants turn on the very benefactors who extend a measure of kindness, IMO. Psychopathic, destructive behavior is all they know.
Another consideration is the false sense of confidence these kids get playing first person shooter video games.
A simulator without real life field training doesn’t translate into expertise.
“...that three young men died for lack of a decent adult male role model in their lives....”
They died because they were street turds.