Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

God dances with the outcast.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.