List of mass shootings in the United States (1900–1999 - Wikipedia)
Mass Shootings in the US: See 37 Years in One Chart | Time
198: Total Americans killed in mass shootings in the 50 years from 1920 to 1979
225: Total Americans killed in mass shootings in the 20 years from 1980 to 1999
715: Total Americans killed in mass shootings in the 20 years from 2000 to 2021
Hmmmmm.... It's almost like something changed in the 70's -- and then changed even worse in the '00's. What could it be?
Maybe this?
Deinstitutionalisation - Wikipedia
Or this?
Defund the police - Wikipedia
Keeping lunatics in asylums and killers in jail seemed to work pretty well. Instead of raising monuments to the dead for the amusement of lunatics and killers, how about we try putting them away again?