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Originally Posted by Refractive Reflections

It's the culture more so than the current gun laws. If you can believe it, there were shooting clubs back in New York City high schools until 1969. So it begs the question as to what's different? One strong possibility is the overwhelming culture of narcissism to the point that now some people are willing to be well-known for infamy, rather than being an upright person that no one will ever know about or, frankly, not care about. ...And thanks to the cultural addiction of social media, that psychological craving for attention is even greater.



One topic that seems to get swept under the rug is law enforcement/government incompetence. Like with Parkland, and the incompetence of the Air Force to submit the gun man's criminal history to the FBI in the Texas church shooting last November, and now this...
So because the government isn't doing it's job, everyone else's freedoms have to be restricted?

It won't be too surprising now, if soon a call for all knives should be banned considering how terrorists are improvising their attacks:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-knife-attack/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hengsha.../#1abadcee6235

Except that humanity in general have been narcissistic and done ****ed up things in the past to gain attention also going to knives attack, people do have a higher percentage of surviving that than a mass shooting.