“...Maybe if we weren’t busy creating victims...”
No “we” about it. All you can do is teach YOUR kids (as I taught mine) to fight back, always. I understand your point, but it’s not “we” - it’s liberal/progressive PC crap, foisted by liberal/progressives.
And yes, when I was in HS back in the 70s, if something like this had occurred in my old school, that kid would have been on the bottom of a dog pile of any junior and senior varsity football players within arm’s length, and he probably would not have walked away from it.
Different times, with different people, friend.
I saw one of the victims on the news this morning saying he didn’t know if he could go back to that school. My parents would have let me stay home till the doctor released me to go back and I’d have gone back to school.
I’m afraid that parents who raise emotionally strong children are a pretty small minority these days.