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Originally Posted by Envitro
The one thing I'll say, regardless of guns, is is anybody asking the question of "Why?"
Why is this happening so frequently? It's not like the gun or the availability of guns causes people to go on a shooting rampage?
I'm really interested in the root cause of this systemic issue in the U.S.
Now, I guess we have to be really careful since we can't talk about the U.S. as a contiguous nation when it comes to gun laws, cultural, or socio-economic factors, but I'd love to hear some theories on why this is an issue in the U.S.
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I suspect social media is ramping it up some, it seems to be an amplifier of all of humanities baser instincts, couple that with access to weaponry that makes it easier to shoot more people more quickly and body armour that makes stopping a shooter much much harder.
I'm old enough to remember when postal workers seemed to go on random shooting rampages all the time, often enough the phrase 'going postal' was coined for losing it, when you look at the history of post office shootings back in the 80's it was some guy with a pistol or shotgun who killed 3 or 4, shooting things used to be difficult, you had to reload after every 5 or 10 rounds, and most people under stress, which shooters are, are terrible shots, they need hundreds of rounds to hit one person usually, also reloading becomes a slower more difficult process, these are literally the problems the military version of the AR15 was designed to overcome, smaller ammunition so you can have many many more rounds in the magazine, creating a weapon that is easy to 'spray and pray', the ease and speed of putting rounds on moving targets (children) is the main factor in numbers of dead, I suspect the military look of most of these weapons attracts a certain type of wack job as well.