Over at TTAG’s Facebook page, Ray Martinie offers his analysis of Elliot Rodger’s Santa Barbara spree killing:
And this folks, is exactly why people should teach discipline to their children and put this “everyone’s a winner” bullsh*t behind us. Narcissistic sh*tbags that get handled with kid gloves all their life get a taste of the real world, which is NEVER fair, and they don’t have the coping skills to deal with it. Let the kids stumble and fall a bit when they are young, so they can deal with real life once the stakes are raised in adulthood. Winning and losing are NOT the same thing, they are not equal. You didn’t “win” a trophy by losing . . .
What you win by losing is the ability to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try fucking again. And we got a whole generation of kids out there going into adulthood that never learned these lessons. It should come as no surprise to anyone that some of them just fucking snap and retreat into their little fantasy world where “everyone is against them! Oh woe is me!” This will undoubtedly be addressed as “Gun Violence Issue”, when it’s not. It’s a Mental Health issue, just like every other mass shooting of note in the last decade. Raising a generation of whiney, entitled pussies doesn’t help matters any.