Very well-written and honest and painfully full of truth.
"So here we have a 14-year-old boy, arrested once for attempted murder
but released for lack of a cooperating victim, and arrested again for
possessing a gun and with a court date pending, yet who nonetheless was
out on the streets of the Bronx at three in the morning with yet another
gun, but this time coming up against someone who, we can all be
grateful, was better at handling a weapon than he was. "
"And a question
arises: If indeed Shaaliver saw his father often, as the New York Times
story tells us, what did they talk about? Did his father tell him not
to be running the streets at three in the morning? Did he tell him not
to carry guns and stay away from gang members? Did he in any way at all
admonish him to divert from the reckless path he so clearly had taken?
Of course you know the answer."
Fear the "feral, fatherless young men roaming the streets with guns".
