Cue the tiny violins.

So, hey, did you guys know that Sonny shot his own son?  Only he didn’t know Dante was his son.  He thought Dante was an undercover cop who had infiltrated the organization in order to take him down, so shooting him was okay.  Until he found out Dante was his own son.  But Sonny cares about his kids, see?  And he was a poor, abused kid, so that makes it okay that he’s in the mob and is responsible for killing other people, because he just wants to give his kids a good life, and if he’d known Dante was his kid, too, maybe he wouldn’t have shot him.  He didn’t know.  It’s not his fault.  Dante should forgive him and want to be his right-hand man now.  It’s not his fault that he shot his own son.

ARGH.  STOP.