Hammer, meet nail. 
I had a second cousin, he was the only child of my great uncle, and every time he got in trouble, my great uncle would go bail him out and do whatever it took to keep him out of the slammer. It got worse and worse until my uncle literally had to "hock the farm" to keep him from going to prison. If he had just let him take his medicine the first time or two it may have never gotten to that point.
The same thing has happened here. If GZs daddy hadn't flexed his influence and gotten him off every charge he ever faced, it might not have gotten to this point. One thing is for certain, GZ wouldn't have been able to get his CCW permit had his daddy let him fall. Whether or not he would have gone ahead and carried the gun illegally without the permit.... there's no way to know.
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