05-18-2018, 05:59 PM
(05-18-2018, 05:52 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Shotguns and .38 revolvers have been around for at least a century. Maybe not the exact same models, but generally speaking.
So asking in general here, but what has changed these last 20 some years, or what has helped trigger all these school shootings?
Maybe instead of society arguing over guns and whatnot, maybe people should start to look at deeper issues in our society that are triggering this new age of mass shootings. Sure keep improving gun laws, as I am a proponent of that, but short of literally repealing the 2nd amendment and trying to ban all guns outside of hunting rifles kept at the local police station, not much can really be done if our society continues on the same path it has for a few decades now.
I think it is a product of the new idea that "Fame" is more important than any "substance". It used to be that people strove to achieve something so that they could be famous. Now people just want to be "famous" for no reason or even a bad reason.
A person who feels weak and oppressed thinks he can become the most famous person in the country. That makes them feel powerful because fame is so important now it doesn't matter what you are famous for.
A higher percentage of the population owned guns in 1970, and I assume we had just as much mental illness as today. yet back then mass shooting (other than family massacres) were unheard of.
