[Political Junkie Too]

...when we discuss mass shootings, one of the first questions we ask is the simplest and also the hardest to answer. Why? Why does this keep happening?

"Mass shootings" or mass school shootings?

For the latter, I'd say that teenage girls don't give teenage boys ribbons of participation when they reject their dating advances.

-PJ

[Sergio]

I don't think folks give what you said the importance the statement is due.

When there are no losers and no winners, when everyone gets a “participation” trophy, then no one knows how to deal with losing. No one knows how to deal with rejection.

Kids are having their views of themselves not just cracked, they see themselves as being shattered and stomped on, and they don't know how to deal with that. Sadder still is that this is the reaction to being turned down by someone they like. What are they going to do when the larger losses in life come around.

Loss of a job, loss of a loved one, finding out a spouse cheated on you.

As these kids get older, it's gonna get messier.

[Gene Eric]

>> teenage girls don’t give teenage boys ribbons of participation when they reject their dating advances.

Exactly.

Liberalism/Feminism insisted on unnatural, sheltered environments where children are rarely exposed to failure. As a consequence, the necessary check-valves for self-restraint are not fully developed.

Regarding Sante Fe, I understand the perp was humiliated in the presence of his buddies. Did not one of them tell the perp to blow if off and move on?