Have you ever heard of the DOOR KICK CHALLENGE?

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24. You're assuming a lot about this child's parents and upbringing, why?

You have no clue as to this child's home life, none, so why make such assumptions.

Look, was the kid young and dumb, doing the young and dumb things all kids, including you and I, do. Yes. As a parent you teach them, give them life lessons, and hope the kid remembers them and uses them to guide their behavior. But the frank truth of the matter is that a kid will, at some point, do something dumb. This is part of growing up, learning and exploring life. As a parent you just hope and pray that when that time comes your kid isn't seriously hurt or injured.

In the spectrum of dumb things kids do this is, normally rather benign. Sadly this man was not normal, and had a gun, and an innocent kid died.

It seems to me that throughout this thread you're trying to shift some, if not all, of the blame onto the kid. Why?