Mass Shooting at San Antonio Elementary School

[Millhouse]

Pretty sure it was Fred a while back once pointed out that there were more gun owners in the 1970s as well as much easier access to guns back then as there is today. But there weren't any mass shootings like what we have seen from Columbine in 1999 thru very recently.

However murder/manslaughter began to rise in the 1970s thru the early 1990s, but then have descended since then to some of the lowest rates since the 1960s.

So it seems to be a paradox of some kind happening. Mass shootings have been happening since 1999 (1966 had the tower mass shooter in Texas), but murder rates (per 100,000 people) have been pretty low actually in the same time period compared to the 1970s thru the 1990s.