It’s sad those kids were slaughtered like rabbits.
I have seen rabbits freeze like that in the field.
This may sound harsh, but their liberal upbringing may have contributed to it.
Imagine if one of those kids were raised like Audie Murphy.
Or Sgt. York.
Even unarmed - one who is familiar with arms and familiar with small arms fire is in a better mental situation to deal with an armed person than one who think that a gun is a kill machine and getting hit = being dead.
Diving into freezing waters sounds like one heck of a good idea when the alternative is huddling together waiting for a bullet.
If any of those kids had been raised like Audie Murphy, well, they wouldn’t have had those parents and they wouldn’t have been on that island.