sc94597 said:
While you are right, there isn't much that will be done in the way of legislation, there is no need to worry. Homicide rates (including firearm homicide rates) in general have declined over the last 30 years. The media loves to sensationalize things.
The same is true for violent crime.
This is true despite less restrictive laws in the states, and more guns overall. |
I think that's largely due to a drop in gang violence between gang members though (unfortunately Chicago would not apply though). Things like school kids getting shot to death by some unhinged loon or a movie theater getting shot up or a nightclub in this case .... I don't seem to think that happened regularily in the 1970s or 80s.
Honestly I think the arrivial of 24/7 news and the amount of attention Columbine received has now unintentionally created an unending cycle of people who are frustrated in their life and will go on and start killing people as a way to validate themselves somehow by becoming temporarily famous.
CNN and that whole 24 news craze really did not take off until the Gulf War in 1991, but its in the 90s that we see the beginning of the mass shooting phenomenon.
