Why weren't there mass school shootings before the 70's? People had guns before the 70's?

Dangerous whackos were committed then. Delusional bigots in academia, fearful their turn for commitment was coming, lobbied to not permit commitment until after a maniac already created havoc on the public.

I don't necessarily disagree with them. My concern comes with my next sentence.

Also, the public was not mostly little children in adult bodies sucking their thumbs and crying for imaginary mommies and daddies in government to protect them all ways and always. Most people understood an occasional whacko might cut loose and kill people until someone nearby cut him down.

there is an truly great distinction between popular gun crimes - that are commonly family members disputes and carry ups, and shootings like those at Dunblane, Hoddle highway and Queen highway Melbourne, Port Arthur, Sandy Hook, Columbine and so on. every time there's a debate interior the country after a sort of massacres, the controversy on the instant is sidetracked into talk of crimes the place there are one or 2 sufferers at maximum. a minimum of it incredibly is the way it variety of feels to me, right here in Australia. apparently that any concept to eliminate semi-computerized weapons with great magazines is on the instant interpreted as a concept to eliminate all pistols, rifles and so on. in view that it is politically unacceptable interior the country, no longer something gets performed. a super form of bollocks would be reported the US shape. properly that grew to become into framed so a protection tension must be formed. It grew to become into additionally drafted while all firearms have been single shot gadgets that should purely fire 2 photos or so according to minute in expert hands. Repeating rifles have been 60 or extra years interior the destiny. Now what's the region of a protection tension created from gun vendors interior the country as we talk? maximum ot them have weapons of diverse calibres between possibly .22 and .40 4 or so. while this protection tension is going out to preserve freedom, anybody desires diverse bullets and a super form of run out of ammunition right away by way of fact they can't all be presented with their particular calibre. In 1746, Bonnie cost Charlie grew to become into defeated on the conflict of Culloden, partly by way of fact his cannon used diverse sized shot. meanwhile any incredibly organised enemy is pounding the protection tension from previous rifle shot with mild, medium or heavy artillery and in all probability floor connect plane. it incredibly is been attainable by way of fact the Nineteen Forties if no longer properly earlier. The protection tension can not even see the place the shells are coming from and that they can't hit the plane the two. It does not make experience. I see no difficulty with maximum human beings of human beings possessing pistols, lever or bolt action rifles yet what a suburban resident thinks he's going to do with them is previous me. Farmers, cattlemen and so on are a various tale, in such occupations they seem to be a gadget. the country might awaken to this, yet I doubt it.

I agree, violence has become a second nature, but I'm sure there are alot more things that play a role in this, people get diagnosed with depression and other disorders more than ever, and of course the media.

Actually school shootings date back to the 1700s in the US.

July 26, 1764, the teacher and 9 or 10 children were shot and killed.

I agree, if people want to amend the 2nd amendment, why not the first? The media sensationalizes these murders and provides ample attention to the killer thus giving him what he wants. Thats why we are seeing so many people emulate these killings.

Those are covered under the same Constitution that the GUN CRAZIES are trying to uphold so the movies stay too....sorry...and it's CATCHER in the RYE...not Cather.

Only right-wing gun nuts seem to be doing the shooting, I don't see any aging hippies out there killing people. Maybe the right wingers just can't understand that it's just a movie and not real.

Some sort of wicked virus has our society running amok it would seem.

the information age. its the easy way to becoming infamous.

We left prayer behind.