>>>It seems there are more boys growing up with only mothers, mostly exposed to female and/or left leaning teachers. How, with all that pressure, can there be any toxic masculinity left?
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>There's quite good info from US inner city African-American communities that "father absence" has a strong correlation with every sort of bad outcome for kids, including violent offenses.
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>As for the shotgun incident: I knew a kid who accidentally shot his brother in the chin, thankfully only with an air gun- but still. There's a reason why firearms are supposed to be kept away from kids! But if those little rotters did it to you on purpose rather than kind of play acting and then it went off, I'd suggest there was a psychopath and the others kind of went along with it through bravado and fear of annoying the psychopath, and maybe they were even shocked when the little swine actually fired it. I'd like to think that, because it's too worrying to imagine Canadian kids getting a pass for deliberately shooting at each other, even if there's a back story leading up to it.

No back story really. The little rotters were given a pass for attempted murder, deliberately planned. I say shoot criminals the instant the judge says guilty. I have no pain to work through. The leftists are too naive in their high estimation of humanity. How many times have we tried to help only to be treated with abusive language? I started a job for a guy who thinks himself some FoxPro genius. He had spent two weeks trying to do a simple - to me - thing. I showed him my way and he lost it. Screamed at me. Called me a showoff and a cheater. The world is full of morons and we coddle them too much.