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It's an epidemic of insanity. When I was in school the junior and senior guys would have pick up trucks with full gun racks in the parking lot. You never even thought twice about some nut job shooting up the place. People are losing their minds right and left. It's just signs of the times.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@puck61 White racism was probably at its peek in the 1950s. While there were many abuses committed by racist until then, it was generally older people who refused to turn loose of their segregationist ideas. BUT ... there was no mass shootings of random people.
This is new. And while political opportunists keep trying to play the race card when they happen, it's usually about disgruntled males who seem to have fallen through the cracks, or feel that they have been betrayed by society.
Well, maybe not so new. When and why did the term "going postal" sneak into our vocabulary? Mid 1980s? When did Tim McVeigh declare war against America? 1995?
This is new. And while political opportunists keep trying to play the race card when they happen, it's usually about disgruntled males who seem to have fallen through the cracks, or feel that they have been betrayed by society.
Well, maybe not so new. When and why did the term "going postal" sneak into our vocabulary? Mid 1980s? When did Tim McVeigh declare war against America? 1995?
@Heartlander Excellent points. Thank you.