Imagine growing up in a house with unsecured (possibly illegal) firearms as normal. Think about how you’d be raised. What would your goals and priorities, hell, your reality be?

This kid is doomed to fail, and not because anything innate in him, but his environment.

And he’s going to raise his kids the same way.

It’s a negative feedback loop.

If you don’t somehow break the loop and get to this kid, he’s going to be a product of the system, and produce more of the same.