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Soundwave on 13 June 2016
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sc94597 said:
Soundwave said:

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 .... seem to be the new normal. 

Mass murder is just as common as it has ever been (as in not very much.) With a larger population there are more stories to cover though, within any geographical area. And the media today loves to cover these events because it increases viewership. Something that wasn't so true in the past. 

The deadliest mass murder by an individual (before yesterday)  in U.S history was in 1927, so it certainly isn't a recent phenomenon. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, that killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people. Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck. It is the deadliest mass murder to take place at a school in United States history.

Well as I've said America has a very violent history in general -- two of its most popular recent sitting presidents have been shot, try finding another 1st world country like that. 

That said I don't recall there been a ton of mass shootings akin to Columbine in the 70s and 80s ... I wonder why that is, but then it went from one of these every couple of years to now where it's like an annual event basically. It's sad.