This country is full of crazed gun nuts. The gun laws and the culture in some areas have turned the place into a free fire zone for any jerk with a grievance and a gun.
I just listened to the local NPR affiliate run a program on how societies in general are becoming less violent and such, less deaths due to war, less abuse etc etc. This was the work of a Harvard professor. Yet, if you were to ask normal people about the direction of how all this shooting misery is going, they'd easily say it's getting worse and that certain people are clearly prone to creating misery. From my point of view, until I see data that says otherwise, it strikes me that these multiple shootings are increasing. On the other hand it could be that any and all news travels fast on the internet as opposed to pre-internet news.
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This country is full of crazed gun nuts. The gun laws and the culture in some areas have turned the place into a free fire zone for any jerk with a grievance and a gun.
I just listened to the local NPR affiliate run a program on how societies in general are becoming less violent and such, less deaths due to war, less abuse etc etc. This was the work of a Harvard professor. Yet, if you were to ask normal people about the direction of how all this shooting misery is going, they'd easily say it's getting worse and that certain people are clearly prone to creating misery. From my point of view, until I see data that says otherwise, it strikes me that these multiple shootings are increasing. On the other hand it could be that any and all news travels fast on the internet as opposed to pre-internet news.
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