Adam Smith, who is considered the father of capitalism, viewed it as both competitive and cooperative, a societalsystem based on self-interest, self-restraint, morality and justice.
Lastly, sorry but an upper middle class kid from a lawyer growing up in Seattle and dropping out of Harvard did not go through the same societalsystem as a kid from Watts.
Instead, the group pointed to media sensationalism, violent video games, gun-free zones in schools, the failure to enforce gun laws already on the books, issues with the nation's mental health system and other societal problems as feeding the spate of gun violence.