Between 1993 and today, the firearm homicide rate in America has gone down roughly 50% (source: FBI Uniform Crime Report). In 1993, there were roughly 180 million legally owned firearms on the US. Today, there are more than 400 million legally owned firearms. Far more guns, yet far less gun violence. The gun control weenies don't like this data. They also don't like the fact that 90% of the firearm homicides are committed using guns acquired illegally.
The difference today is we no longer pay attention to the total numbers, or the daily violence in America's inner cities where 90% of firearm homicides occur. Instead, the focus on the lunatic that goes on a shooting rampage.
Oddly, this downward trend in shootings began in 1993. Columbine happened in 1999 - and the mass shooting phenomenon took hold.
@BizSuitStacy I am starting to think these mass shootings are orchestrated by the left, using old CIA techniques under a 50's to 70's era program called MK Ultra, which brainwashed unsuspecting people into becoming what are called Manchurian, essentially "sleepers" that are triggered in one way or another to mindlessly carry out orders to unalive others. They used lsd in the program during those years and subjected them to mind control methods, I now strongly believe the left is still doing that program with today's youths, using ritalin and adderall as their lsd as both of those substances zombify their users, subjecting them to mind manipulation, and using violent video games and "entertainment" as their means to manipulate. Think about it, why is the left so obsessed with guns, YET they don't say a thing about violent movies, music, or tv? In fact most of those mediums are in fact produced by leftist Hollywood, and why are the mass shooters always the school losers?
The left is doing this deliberately to enrage the public in order to demand confiscation, why? Because firearms stand in the way of them taking total control of the people, they want to finish their vision of the marxist communist utopia they were trying to create in the 60's and 70's when they were only the counter culture. But as Jane Fonda's ex husband, Tom Hayden showed them, to "beat the Man, they have to become the Man." and entered politics, the counter culture soon became the establishment as we know it today.
Also, since the 40th anniversary reprinting of Dr. Spock's "Dare to Discipline" parenting book in 1986, originally published in 1946, essentially pretty much became a basis for it's mantra of "spanking destroys creativity"; all forms of discipline has become near outlawed, verging on all kinds accused of being abusive. Because of this the Millennial, Generation Z, and now Generation Alpha, the three youngest generations, which were also taught that respect of Elders was stupid, lost all manners and became disrespectful of others, their lack of proper discipline and guidance creating in them a sense of entitlement in which violent behaviors also became common in them, making it easier for those maniputating them to act.
@NativePortlander1970 I think you're right. Mass shooters are being radicalized. It seems they are usually on the FBI's radar, and/or local law enforcement. Then immediately after the carnage, their social media is scrubbed.
@BizSuitStacy Exactly, law enforcement gets a report of a potential shooter, they ignore it, then they're on the news having to make up excuses why they didn't follow up.
