If guns were really the issue we would have already been experiencing this rampant nonsense 40+ years ago.. Just saying..

And yet it's only occurring NOW................ Which if guns hadn't been the problem all these years and incidents were always extremely isolated when in occurring then you really have to look at the bigger picture and ask. "What changed?"

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

We've had an absolutely massive decline in gun violence over the last few decades - we absolutely [i]were[/i] experiencing this rampant nonsense. It's just a weird rose tinted glasses thing that people have when they look back and think the world was safer when they were young. It wasn't. By nearly any metric.

There has been a rise in mass shootings - though we had those back in the day as well. But overall gun crime and firearms death are quite a bit lower.

Mass shootings are still extremely isolated, lone-wolf attacks, by unbalanced individuals. Just as they were during Texas University Massacre, etc.

SerenitiesScars · 31-35, M

@QuixoticSoul Cite them then. Don't say mass shootings existed without providing how often they occurred. And isolated incidents don't count. You have to give actual evidence on how mass shootings were occurring.. And where?

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@SerenitiesScars They're all isolated incidents, by their very nature. Parkland shooting was also an isolated incident. I don't know what you're looking for exactly - here are a few.

August 1, 1966, the Texas University massacre. A dude killed seventeen, and wounded thirty one.

December 30, 1974 - a high school honor student and the star of the rifle team started shooting from the school grounds, killed three and wounded eleven.

January 29, 1979 - 16 year old girl shot up an elementary school across the street from her house. Killed two, wounded nine.

Anyway, like I said - they are becoming more common, chiefly for "copycat" reasons due to the media hoopla - but they ain't new.

SerenitiesScars · 31-35, M

Isolated in the sense that a year or two passes before another mass shooting even has the chance to occur..

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@SerenitiesScars Nobody denies that mass shootings are on the upswing. Thankfully, rate of general gun violence is much lower than it used to be, so less people die than they used to overall.

1980 was the high point of firearm deaths in the US - just about 40 years ago.