Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?

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JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

My two pennies: We had a generation of people raised by baby boomers, people notorious for their inability to manage emotions, or empathize with different or morally ambiguous people. It’s intergenerational trauma from such an upbringing, manifesting as mental illness and marked by delusions of grandeur, paranoia, victim mentality, and stunted emotional and social development. That, and obviously the proliferation of weapons has made mass murder accessible, and in the minds of some people as described above.

Possibly also lead poisoning.

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