Three Students shot dead due a man rejected by a woman… Is this a societal problem?

The New York Times  06/11/12  Kim Severson

“Three Killed in Shooting near Auburn University”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/us/report-of-a-multiple-shooting-near-auburn-university.html

Three young men, two of them with ties to Auburn University’s football team, were killed and three others were wounded during a pool party on Saturday night at an apartment complex near the campus here.

Several law enforcement agencies were searching in Montgomery on Sunday for the man they suspected of firing the fatal shots, which were aimed at a few men at the party.

The suspect, whom the police identified as Desmonte D. Leonard, 22, of Montgomery, apparently had no connection to the university, officials said. He has been charged with three counts of capital murder. Court records show that he has a history of gun violence.

The police did not release many details of the shooting. But people who were at the party said the fight began in the apartments’ clubhouse area after Mr. Leonard saw a man dancing with a woman he had spent time with earlier.

“They started fussing over a girl, and the fussing escalated to a fight, and the fight escalated to a shooting,” said Richard Trammell, 21.

Common Sense Review

Have we a generation of people who don’t know how to cope.  A person goes on a shooting spree because another man was dancing with a woman he was previously talking to.  There was no sense of relationship, just a woman he just met.  How is this acceptable behavior over being rejected by a female? 

Are we teaching our children the skill to cope with life’s hurdles?  So many times we see that people on the news due to a poor reaction to a bad decision.   Last year in Grand Rapids, a lady caught her live in boyfriend in a bar with another woman.  She followed the couple in her car in a chase all over Grand Rapids in excessive speeds.  It ended with the boyfriend’s car crashed which caused his death. The girlfriend was convicted with his death and serving time in prison.

Why she didn’t go home, pack his stuff and kick him out?  Or go home and confront him on their relationship.  Both situations have a non violent reaction to the situation.

Now he is dead and she has lost her freedom over the inability to address his bad behavior. 

We try to protect our children from the harshness of life but are we creating a more serious situation in the future?