New York’s perverse 2018 “Raise the Age” law empowered teens to carry guns and behave like thugs, safe in the knowledge that the courts would treat even vicious criminals as wayward children.
That culture of impunity surely shaped the thinking of the 15-year-old suspect in Monday’s midafternoon murder on a Bronx bus.
Why not carry a loaded gun on the bus, after all, when the worst that can happen is a brief visit to Family Court, on the vanishingly slim chance that you get stopped-and-frisked by a cop?…