This guy had a father at home, who had 2 guns the son used to murder people with.
Didn’t imply there wasn’t. Society, the media, and government, specifically the judicial system, have turned men into inutile cows who can’t do anything right and are deserving of ridicule. Men and fathers have been typecast into a role akin to Homer Simpson, and kids see them in the same light. Dad probably came home after toiling for the day, plopped on the couch with a beer, and mom doted around the house.
If we don’t portray men, and esp. fathers, as strong, necessary producers in the nuclear family, then children won’t see them that way and will not respect them. Many men are not just absent from the family nowadays, when they are around, they’re just as absent from the family in practice as those who aren’t in the picture at all.