[G Larry]

More likely a lack of discipline in any aspect of their lives.

[BipolarBob]

Oh noes! The mass murderers are victims too? That's too bad.

/s

[Talisker]

The schools play an enormous role in demasculinization.

Enormous.

It’s not to much to say that they wage open war on boys and masculinity.

[max americana]

how about another explanation? If the teachers had guns, they would have shot this asshole.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What would explain liberals blaming society for a miscreant?

[yarddog]

The one thing which still sticks in my mind is how cowardly the cops acted. Then when the kids started coming out the cops made them raise their hands in surrender.

[gaijin]

“You come from a race of murderers, boys are lurking RAPISTS and the world is GOING TO overhead, and all will DIE..!”

Oh SURE, tell them that every day for over 10 years, and I’m SURE it will have ZERO effect, eh..?

It’s a WAR ON BOYS.

Most won’t snap, 99.9% will not.

But finally, SOME WILL.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I guess white males need to check their testosterone, er, I mean privilege? /s

[vpintheak]

Lack of morals. Lack of God.
Evil was allowed to fester, uninhibited.

[windcliff]

Society is forcing males into betas. The alpha’s will rebel.

[Objective Scrutator]

Klebold acted more like a typical teenage girl: emo look, long hair, diaries about crying how awful the world is (including putting little hearts over his i’s)... hardly masculine. He was probably also a sodomite, too.

I don’t think Harris was particularly effeminate, but nor would I call him masculine, either.

[TTFlyer]

“Damaged Masculinity” also explains the Washington Post.

[cherry]

millions of men grow up being non athletes, not good looking , not tall, not charming....they get over it....

I'm not taking any excuses....

Columbine was evil embodied in two young men who by all accounts decided to live in their own little pitiful hateful world...

[Jack Hammer]

The media loves their psychobabble.

[catnipman]

Utter nonsense.

Eric Harris was a sociopath at birth.

It’s that simple.

Read the book “Columbine” if one really wants to know what happened and why.

[equaviator]

Boys will be boys. /s

[Chainmail]

I am sure that is the effect that we're seeing: young males who can't cope with the world as it is or themselves and end up killing. There aren't any other explanations for the school shootings.

Wait 'til you see what happens when the competition starts in combat units for the few females - and the jealous losers in those situations are really well armed.

[BobL]

“In the strangely American phenomenon of mass shootings”

Perhaps talk to the people in Paris or Norway about this ‘strange American phenomenon’. And those countries have BIG TIME gun control...which was the purpose of the above wording.

[Oratam]

Erich Fromm on what makes someone sadistic: “He is sadistic because he feels impotent, unalive, and powerless. He tries to compensate for this lack by having power over others, by transforming the worm he feels himself to be into a god.”

Damaged masculinity helps to explain black male violence in the U.S. and the unbelievable cruelty of ISIS. The cause of the damage may differ but in each case manhood has in some way been compromised.