Here's an excellent first-hand account from a young person coming to grips with a civilian population dealing with the random violence of living in a war zone: Life in Sderot.

Like a real-life modern Lottery, some day people will write short stories about a population sitting about accepting that one of them gets picked off once in awhile and they do nothing about it though they have the strength to put a stop to it. It's surreal.

No wonder a youthful mind is thrown off balance by it.