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Originally Posted by PIMking
most of these shootings are due to some idiot not being hugged enough by their parents as a kid or some crap like that. Why didn't we have these mass shootings 40-50 years ago? could it be all the psychological medicine crap that we shove down our throats? I mean, it was only the government shooting innocent people at schools in Texas or Ohio.
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Because back then, it was easier to just blow up buildings if you wanted to kill a whole bunch of people.
In the subsequent years, there has been tighter restrictions on effective bomb-making materials, and looser restrictions (and readily available high-technology arms) on firearms.
EDIT:
Wiki article on "Terrorism" in the US.
Up til about 1980, it is almost exclusively bombings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrori...900.E2.80.9359
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...g-more-common/
