Journal Stargoat's Journal: Mass shootings more common since the 1960s 6
According to this article mass shootings have been more common since the 1960s. Interestingly, the weapons that can be used for effective mass shootings have really only been available since.... the 1960s.
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While the availablity of semiauto firearms almost certainly plays some role in these things, I don't think the evidence is there - even in the article you link - to support the idea that it's a decisive or even a major factor.
I think it's a more rise in awareness than a rise in prevalence. (There's more fracked-up people, just 'cuz there's more people, and we hear about every massacre now 'cuz communication links are so effective.) Semiauto firearms may - and probably do - raise the per-inci
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Damn pea shooters. Real men use dynamite [wikipedia.org] and fertilizer [wikipedia.org]. Note the common link is the truck [wikipedia.org]. I wouldn't want to draw the wrong conclusion from that, lest they confiscate my Willys.
also since the 1960s (Score:1)
We could come up with a lot of things that have taken hold since the 1960s that could explain it.
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Also the Interstates made travel easy, and TV and the Internet have made communications, and thus mass media, pervasive. 200 years ago, a mass murderer, if discovered at all, probably wouldn't have made it past the local headlines