Last week, near where I live, a 15-year-old girl shot a classmate to death, apparently after being spurned romantically by her. She told police "I wanted her to feel pain like I did."
This weekend, a senior at my daughter's school was stabbed during a fight with a classmate. He died as a result of his injuries.
When I was a kid, the most dangerous thing that could happen at the hands of your classmates was that you'd be embarrassed, and lose face and social standing.
It would have never occurred to me to use deadly force to settle my scores - not when I was a teenager and not now.
I do not know what is wrong with the world. I only know that I am scared to death about letting my kid grow up in it.
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