The irony is that the very people who want to restrict firearms ownership are the ones who are opposed to holding criminals accountable for their actions.
When you allow environment to be an absolute excuse for aggressively anti-social behavior, you open the door to hell. People are supposed to overcome hardship, to rise above their previous circumstances, and to strive for self-improvement, not collapse into a pile of aggrieved self-pity wailing about how the world "owes" them. There are a number of crimes that should never be excused, because there are no excuses for committing them. When your run a chop shop, you have made a conscious decision to be a career criminal, and to live as a parasite at the expense of your fellow citizens. That's very different than a teen succumbing to temptation and making a bad decision. The latter just needs to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and shaken a bit. The former deserves no mercy, nor do professional thieves, armed robbers, or the more heinous offenders.
The road to heaven is giving people freedom, then holding them accountable for their actions. Individuals have agency, and should be expected to use it wisely. The attempt to make the world idiot-proof inevitably leads to the very idiocy the unthinking the policies are intended to prevent.
Consider modern American "justice". If you are a respectable citizen, a criminal conviction, even minor, will have a devastating effect on your life. You are likely to lose your job, and essentially become unemployable in your chosen profession, which will lead to economic and social disaster. On the other hand, if you are personally dysfunctional and already have four or five convictions, you're unlikely to do much time, and there's no meaningful change in your status. We've created an asymmetrical system of punishment that's devastating to the responsible, and insignificant to the criminal, a total inversion of sane policy and values.
You can't make up this stuff.
