Kids these days are not taught self-reliance ...... to look out for themselves ..... they are not taught to think, to solve problems ...... they are very much spectators. They don't play cops and robbers (or cowboys and Indians) in the neighborhood where the bad guy sneaks up behind them and they learn to react. I think this just caught them totally unprepared ...... had never even invisioned something like this in their wildest dreams. Video games, tv, and computers have given us a generation that is accustomed to watching action but not doing things. [Certainly that doesn't apply to all kids but to far too many].
I did see a retired FBI guy on FOX a few minutes ago and he watched the video of the two guys when the media stuck cameras in their faces ...... the FBI guy said it wouldn't surprise him if the guys were "on" something and might not even know what had happened. He was careful to say that was pure speculation but they seemed kind of spaced-out to him.
Prayers for the families of those poor girls! I just can't imagine being in their shoes!