Look, I agree that we are losing sight of the issue here. It's tragic that some 14 year old child, at this young an age and for whatever reason, will never be able to live a normal life again because he was shot in the head by another child. It's tragic that another 14 year old child thought anything in this world was important enough to try to take another childs life. These are CHILDREN. Children who haven't even completed puberty, most likely. What is wrong with us, as parents, that we cannot teach our children how precious life is and how to problem solve. Why do we, as parents, let our children associate with people we don't know, give them all cellphones, cut them loose and trust them to be responsible when they are too young to even know how to hold down a job or balance a checkbook? Call them thugs if you want to, but this could have been one of our children who was shot for something as simple as an angry ex boyfriend of a current girlfriend. My point is, WE ARE THE ONES FAILING THESE CHILDREN. As a society. It could have been my child or your child. Or your neighbor. These things transcend race. This is a universal issue and we need to pay attention.