How many of these people committing mass shootings would have been in the loony bin 50 or 60 years ago? Drugs, both legal and illegal are also a big factor in some of the crazy behavior we see today as well, I think.
I like to call them self-loading guns, since semi-auto seems to have become such a negative connotation these days.
I saw stats recently that something like 300/100K were institutionalized for their own safety (and society’s) 50 years ago. Now it’s down to about 12/100k!
The rest are walking among us, on meds, or off meds.
And what happens when (not if) the economy crashes, pharmacies are looted and never restocked, and millions of schizophrenics are all off their meds at the same time, during a period of massively increased social stress?