Character is partly moulded by society, and our society has become a feminized, self-centered study in narcissism and weakness. How many students at Virginia Tech are members of a "gay-straight" alliance, or are feminazis and radical liberals? How many of them do you suppose are anti-2nd Amendment, anti-war and hate President Bush for his percieved machoism? My sincere prayers go up to God in Heaven for the souls of the murdered and their families, but we have indeed become a feminized, unmanly nation.
I do not disagree with your statements re: society, feminization, etc. It’s just that I don’t believe they are relevant in this context. How an individual reacts uinder stress in a tactical situation has nothing to do with sexual orientation, what God you believe in, political affiliation, whether you are a hunter.
How you react is based upon what you have experienced and how you have been trained.