They were very rare until the last 25 years or so.
When i was high school we used to bring rifles to school and go hunting on the way home.
The rifles were on racks in trucks and the trucks were not even locked.
My how things have changed!!!
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I am not privy as to who or what was blamed in 1764…
Regardless, it appears that school shootings in this country even precede the Declaration of Independence.
Yes, I do think there’s been an uptick since Columbine. Unfortunately, that case garnered so much notoriety, it likely gave ideas to future would-be assailants.
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Somehow an anti-gun activists, who just happens to be “vacationing in Nashville,” jumps on the mic at the crime scene and goes on a gun control screed. Quite a coincidence.
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People do bad things: film at 11:00.
Here’s some facts.
Guns are in less households and more secured than they used to be. I.e. access is going down.
School shootings have gone up exponentially as access went down.
It’s not the guns or the access.
It’s the youth you side professes to know how to raise.
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Shooter gained unobserved access through an unsecured side entrance and opened fire once inside…
The Columbine shooting predates social media, so we can’t blame it on that. At least not that one.
It was all over the regular media though.
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Columbine got so much coverage everywhere, you didn’t need Facebook or Twitter.
Was she a Tom boy?
Link ?
All due respect, you’ve no clue as to what “my side” is and I’ve never claimed to know how to or wish to raise any “youth”. Didn’t even care for children when I myself was a kid 
Let’s graph out the increase in school violence as it correlates to the rise of the “spanking is child abuse, my parent is my friend” movement.
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Is that the argument? Social media publicizes the shootings so people emulate them? I thought the argument was that social media actually makes people feel more isolated, anti-social, etc., and that shooters often find encouragement and tips online. The media has always publicized tragedies.
Maybe social media doesn’t matter here that much ? My argument is simply that Columbine likely inspired copycats - mostly lonely depressed boys.
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Well here we go again. Firearms owners like myself will be blamed for something that we had nothing to do with and that we should give up our rights for the false security of hoplophobes.
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Answer to the highlighted: Cultural rot.
The problem with that answer is that we’ll never agree on what that rot is.
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Violation of the second amendment. Will not work here.
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Or how to fix it without trampling the Constitution.
Sadly, you’re probably right.
People not raising their kids with even a basic sense of morality. Not giving them structure. Not disciplining them. Half of them not even really being there for their kids.
Basically, ■■■■ parents raising ■■■■ kids.
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