SimpleDon
Veteran Member
We have always had a lot of guns owned by private citizens in the US. We have always had a mentally unstable portion of our population. We have always had white supremacists in the US. We have always discussed gun control in the US.
And yet the phenomenon of all of these mass shootings is a fairly recent development, just over some decades. Does this tell us something valuable about this problem?
Something more nuanced than the bumper sticker slogans that we repeat here every time one of these happens. My areas of training and knowledge fail me. I don't know the answer.
Here is the annual body count of these events over the last forty years or so.
There has to be a reason that everything in the US seems to have gone to shit since 1980. Ideas?
And yet the phenomenon of all of these mass shootings is a fairly recent development, just over some decades. Does this tell us something valuable about this problem?
Something more nuanced than the bumper sticker slogans that we repeat here every time one of these happens. My areas of training and knowledge fail me. I don't know the answer.
Here is the annual body count of these events over the last forty years or so.
There has to be a reason that everything in the US seems to have gone to shit since 1980. Ideas?