Nobody mentions the embarrassment and hastles this guy forced on the girl.
Note, he’d been after her for four months, and this is the first mention of her trying to shame him into backing off.
He was crazy. She was not.
So the questions are, how do we know when someone is crazy, and what do we sane people do to prevent these disasters? That’s all I’m trying to say.
In the future, perhaps there will be some response among the parents and professionals in detecting danger and preventing all this heartbreak. It’s too easy for us to think of the objects, the guns, and if we’re liberal we want to make them all disappear, and if we’re conservative we say let the teachers have them. The human solution is the real one, but takes longer, and takes more thought.