I'm not sure I subscribe to the legal theory that this was not a crime of passion. It seems he never was taught, nor worked out for himself, how to have a civilized deep relationship, and now he never will. One can't help but wonder how this might have ended differently if we didn't put firearms in the hands of social angst-ridden adolescents. Why allow firearms to author such great harm during these moments of immature emotional indiscretion? That seems, in hindsight, like something that should have been foreseen by sober adults in positions of public responsibility.

I guess it "works out," though. Not only did someone make a firearm's worth of profit selling the murder weapon, but now someone else has the income associated with providing services for one human lifespan worth of incarceration. Pretty good investment return when viewed from the eyes of a sociopathic capitalist.