I used to agree with that.
No more.
Commit armed robbery, expect to get killed. Don't want your kid to get killed while committing a violent crime? Raise him not to commit violent crimes. My sympathy is entirely with the people he threatened, and particularly the individual who had to kill him.
You have failed to absorb the indoctrination which media efforts like Westside Story attempt to promote.
Please watch that incipid trash twenty times, or until you have memorized all the lyrics and empathize with thugs assaulting teenagers in a restaurant for studying to get good grades rather than identifying with the students.
Only Hollywood can set you straight.