The only thing they need to sort out is why they didn't get their son the mental counseling he obviously needed, for years.
Why would a father approve a gun for his 19 year old that has already said he wanted to commit suicide?
Looking at his photos, anyone with half a brain could see something is not right with this guy. Yet the dad signed for a gun card.
...ASS beating...
The kid looked pretty normal in the high school age photos, very short cropped hair, no tats, smiling, hugging his sis and so on. High school after school coach said neither he nor his brother were any trouble, and were quiet, not disruptive. But he said they were often forgotten by their parents, or parents were always late, so the kids were the last to be picked up, and when they tried to call the parents, sometimes they couldn’t get a hold of them.
I agree with you. That said, I also think we should stop giving our disintegrating culture a pass. Disaffected people are, I believe, more impressionable by the crud that inundates our airwaves and online 'culture'. It's ugly and it's sick and it's destructive.