Washington Navy Yard Shooting

[RJNorton]

Sounds like maybe people are trying to make excuses for him...

Kate, your comment made me think of my teaching career. During that period I had roughly 2,000 parent conferences. Sometimes, when talking about a kid's problems, the parents would blame others and and say, "My child got in with the wrong crowd." There was a pronounced tendency to make excuses. So who exactly was the wrong crowd? Never once in all those conferences did I have a parent admit to me his or her child WAS the wrong crowd.