Violent crime has pretty consistently dropped for the past century in the US with a small blip in the 90s often attributed to the prevalence of leaded gasoline and the higher propensity for violence that people exposed to it often had.
School shootings still weren’t a thing back then tho so I fail to see your point.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
In general yes but this discussion is a out mass shootings.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This discussion is about gun violence. Saying there weren’t a lot of school shootings back then is about as helpful to the root issue discussion as saying that cyberbullying wasn’t an issue before the 90s anyways.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Almost all comments in this chain, and indeed the immediate one you replied to mention “school shooting”.
Beyond that, schools and dangerous guns existed before 1980.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 months ago
School shootings aren’t a part of gun violence?