[puckerman]

Again and again, my advice to high school boys like this is to go after a girl who is two or three years younger. You have instant "higher value" by simply being older. The girls will look up to you and won't give you much attitude.

I think many boys are becoming more and more disconnected from both parents. You can live in the same house with a parent and still be very disconnected.

The other thing is that for some of them, suicide just isn't enough. Thousands of kids commit suicide and never make national news. If you commit suicide and take a few innocent people with you, you get a whole lot more attention. You can go out in a "blaze of glory."

I have a second cousin once-removed who survived taking three from Cho at Virginia Tech. I still felt sorry for him.