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Originally Posted by jimbomaybe
You seem very active on this subject, I have asked previously why years ago when you could buy semi auto rifles through the mail, no questions, mass shootings were very rare, what has changed?
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Life has changed. No one ever guaranteed us that everything would ALWAYS stay the same. When (maybe 1950 to 1970) you could buy mail-order guns the population of the US was about 150 million people. Today it is about 350 million. That is one big and powerful change. We did NOT outsource everything to China then. A lot of legal and illegal immigration has happened since then. Diversity is considered to be good, but when is diversity too much? When is population too much? When does too much population outgrow a nearly fixed road system? Just drive on I-75 anytime around Atlanta to answer that
.........Basically, ALL of society has changed since someone could buy a GUN with no questions asked by mail order. Around 1981 all federal mental health institutes were closed. That certainly didn't HELP keep society stable and mass murders down. It's hard to compare one time period that was 60 some years from today, with today, just NOT possible. Gang violence and drug violence barely existed in the era of mail-order guns. In 1981, public schools did NOT have 30 kids in one classroom. Today, the overcrowding prevents almost all of the teachers from keeping order and encouraging learning and success in their students. Most school districts won't raise property taxes to hire enough teachers and staff. The US had a strong middle class around the 1950s. Today the middle class barely exists.
.........There are MANY reasons why society has gotten MORE violent today. When you combine More violence with MORE AVAILABILITY OF guns, you get MORE mass murders. Society has changed and seems more WILLING to accept more Mass murders. I worry about this summer coming up!