Former NFL player Phillip Adams kills five in South Carolina

Speak for yourself.

Haha right? What a deflection. Don't look at me, I didn't raise him, the sport did.

40oz, well, actually people have wrong idea that they are "raising" child. Actually, the psychic is imprinted by all social interactions, and the trace other people leave on you by their actions whether observed or especially directly aimed at you, so the kid is not behaving like you are telling him, but develops his own ways of coping with what he was affected by you, by your hypocrisy maybe, and that of others, especially significant people (cliques and adults). So if the initial state is an unbitten apple, than the result is the apple from which the psychic of the parent was substracted. And if the parent was dominant (what others call "overcaring", but "caring" is not the right word to describe the impact - and the impact is what needs to be looked at, not parent's intentions), the kid is a squashed bug.

Of course football didn't raise him either, but maybe some really traumatic events happened there. Or maybe it is the father who screwed... basically, you can't really trust those people to know. I would need to know his whole life from his own viewpoint - not his opinion, but stuff he's been through and what he thought of it at the time - to actually answer. So let's just say I don't care about father's statements either way, whether he took the responsibility or not, he won't provide me with information I need. He can't.

And @vordakk is right, the father does deserve empathy in this case. Cause that kid is an adult now and has his own free will and all the responsibility is his own. Father didn't will him to kill, I presume.

UPD: sorry, I didn't pay enough attention to what @vordakk said and he said the almost opposite. Anyway, I don't consider the injury itself to set off these events either. There definitely was some shit going on in his life, and we don't truly know - and will never know since he killed himself - what made him this way.

Quite honestly, I would rather see the notion of "hate crime" being abolished altogether, and Black Lives Matter should go extinct, but yes, you are right. We, white men, are the real oppressed.

Yes it sucks.