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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
Back to the original topic, does anyone know if these kind of shootings are occuring more often these days than say 20-40 years ago?
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I think they are. I think a perusal of national police records or FBI records or such will probably show that to be the case. As to what's causing it. I don't think increased medication per se is the problem. I think societal degeneration is the most likely overall cause. Back in the 20's and 30's in the school district where I work kids would even bring guns to school to go hunting with afterwards and such. No-body thought anything of it. My girlfriend who grew up in Boulder Colorado of all places took hunter education classes in school - though she's not a hunter. Did it simply for fun and for firearms training. Now if you even pretend to have a weapon of any kind on you in school everybody flips out. Society itself has changed fundamentally I think. And not always for the better.
- Peter.
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