I wouldn’t be too hard in this guy. His life suddenly became a living hell and will probably remain so for a very long time.
I'm sure there are 8 families who very much would like to have spent 20 minutes with their sons or daughters on Saturday rather than planning their funerals.
He's blaming the victims for their deaths at the hands of his son and the father's weapons which weren't kept safe. He's making excuses why his son did it.
I wonder how many on here will cheer the first time a judge applies the domestic abuse 'battered wife syndrome' dogma and sends a shooter free because 'he suffered years of emotional abuse.'
We're not that far from that moment right now; too often we enable the blaming of victims with the cloud guilt of 'bullying.' All too often, it turns out the horrible things done were failing to invite the perp to parties or he couldn't find a date or someone just didn't like them.
Life is full of disappointments and missed opportunities. We will constantly throughout our life come across people who just don't like us or even actively act to undermine us. In a society which has 'safe rooms' being built into college campuses, I'll take a very big grain of salt any claim of bullying. All too often, it's simply someone saying something which they didn't want to hear.