The guy's 10 year old kid shoots and kills his Nazi dad. So the question then becomes why. I wish 60 Minutes had delved more into that. But I'm glad they somewhat touched on what I was already thinking... It just plain boiled down to a very impressionable kid, in an increasingly hate filled (and quickly becoming) violent home.
The father's recent economic woes were only a small contributing part of it. The Nazi hate group he had immersed himself in was so powerful a twisted, evil, 'vibe' (not sure how else to put it), that it overflowed into every aspect of who he was. How can someone be around that and not be negatively influenced by it?
And the boy, having also been around it constantly w/the meetings, had to have soaked some of that up himself. Don't get me wrong, at the age of 10, he likely had little understanding of the real implications, however, having been with his father on some of the Nazi group's militia BS "missions", he probably had become extremely desensitized to the idea of killing--- in real life.
Ok, so now the Nazi dad is dead, the boy is in Juvie and the paternal grandmother has custody of his sisters- Not so sure that is a great idea either. When interviewed about how she (the grandmother) intended to approach the children's political upbringing; if she would continue w/the Neo Nazi stuff, she smugly says something to the effect of (paraphrasing) "Oh no! The children will be raised as conservative republicans!"... 
As if today's republican party is SUCH a giant leap from the hate group her son became involved with. 
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