the writer stated that “mass shootings” are no more common today than in the past, but a good article/oped in today’s wall street journal pointed out that for the past three decades, that while mass shootings as a whole are not more common, RANDOM mass killings of unexpected innocents has increased, higher in the 1990s than in the 1980s and higher in 2000s than the 1990s
those trends are counter to the gun control legislation and statistics, by which all the “suspected” “mass killing” guns were more available and more easily available in the 1960s than today
two of the biggest changes over the same period of time while gun control has been increasing are (1) an increase in how lax ivoluntary commitment on mental health grounds has become and (2) how extensively and universally the media has insured eternal fame to any deranged mass killer wannabe, no matter where they live
if your life has been a tortuous mental journey leading to and always in dead ends, you can be rest assured you will be forever world famous - almost instantly today - if you take your revenge on life out on as many strangers as you can, fatally that is
instead of railling against the injustice of “this cruel world” inside an institutional environment, the mentally troubled are free to show the real world just how angry they are
that, not any manner of guns is the real problem
Absolutely true and well written. The world stage awaits because journalists cannot wait to endlessly talk about those that wantonly kill. Children slaughtered? All the better the story.