[Jeff Higgins]

All I'm suggesting, Denis, is that the whole "thug life" sub culture that has permeated much of our country's young black population may have been at least somewhat responsible for this young man's possession of a gun and his eagerness to demonstrate how tough he was by threatening someone with that gun. We see this "thug life" celebrated in their music, their choices of role models and, ultimately, in their behavior that results in a violent death rate six times higher than everyone else's. Could this young man's behavior have been an attempt to emulate this "thug life"? I think that is entirely possible. That's all I'm saying. Too many of his contemporaries are dying in a similar fashion. It's worth exploring the reasons for this.