Misslizard wrote:
Wonder why this is so prevalent now.
There were piles of guns around when I was a teen and really no background checks and this wasn’t going on.Never crossed my mind there would be a shooting at a school or in a store.
What has made all these people sick in the head?
Probably multiple reasons.
Food supply has been further tainted = peoples' physical & mental health is generally worse.
Many occurrences = desensitized/copy cats more likely.
Increased media coverage of each one = nuts get the idea that they too can go nuts like that.
USA just had a potus that promotes violence.
The gun lobby is strong enough to buy law makers off so they just send hopes and prayers instead of doing anything to slow the sale of guns & ammo to nuts.
Covid isolation & general economic mess as a result.
Cults are more commonplace, like q or trumpism, so maybe these easily impressionable people are part of the problem.
I bet guns are even more prevalent today than in 1980, especially guns used to kill people vs. target shoot or hunt animals.
General economic woes unrelated to covidtimes - the last 4 decades have seen most of the gains go to the top 1% so there's even more massive wealth disparity. (No that there wasn't during rampant slavery, but gun ownership was mostly restricted to the people owning class back then.)
The whole copy cat trend thing is probably a contributing factor.. the more it happens the more it happens, just becomes a trend, an accepted part of life until it eventually becomes "Because that's the way we've always done it," and people just shoot each other when they're stressed or over differences etc much like some countries where people are born into wars that have been going on for generations and no one knows anymore why they fight their neighbours, just that that's what they do..
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.