I'm not sure why you're so surprised. Have you seen the legal costs associated with copyright infringement issues? If an ordinary person someone can get fined $80,000 per song shared from their computer, what kind of fines do you think Amazon would be up against?

Nobody's arguing that we shouldn't eat crabs, only that we should kill them in a more humane manner.

There's a difference between being instantly killed via a giant boot and being boiled alive. It's not about whether or not we should kill them, it's about how.

Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth?

No. But this article is.

This falls back to nature vs nurture. The kid was obviously a nutjob to begin with. Probably autistic which would explain his inability to interact with other children. Maybe bipolar as well. One thing's for sure, he's been committed and evaluated several times and the conclusion was that he was not sane and was a potential danger to himself and to others. Now, how exactly does this fall completely on the parents? They sent him to doctors who subsequently let him out. He was then able to obtain two firearms despite this. The family was obviously aware of his condition and had taken measures to address them but nothing worked. His teachers tried as well but none of that worked. What else was there to do? The kid was born insane and all attempts to "fix" him failed. I would say that the system that's in place to keep these types of people off the streets and away from deadly weapons is what failed here if anything.