Something that did catch my attention from the article is that he ran to his friend's dad and called his mom and grandmother. What about his dad? He might have been a strong influence in his life and I just didn't see him mentioned. I don't know. I do know that a lot of young men that get in to trouble don't have a male role model in the home. If I had to look at changing things because of youthful violence, that is where I would look if I was a law maker. It may not have any significance in this case though.
No, we want to make standards universal, you cannot get a CDL until you are 21, you cannot drink until 21, you cannot legally own a machine gun until 21, etc. So why in the world would giving a punk a gun and a badge make him more mature than anyone else. As to his parents, it would not surprise me if his father wasn't a cop.
I’m wondering if this young man was into steroids. Being in law enforcement and possibly the SWAT team he certainly had to stay in shape. If he bought into the steroid thing to help him do so, maybe a “roid rage” would explain his going so over the edge over being ridiculed, especially if this was very atypical behaviour for him. Just a thought.