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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should all place blame on ourselves.  It's our collective society.  Yes - EVERY ONE of us.  The guy disliked Trump.  You can blame Trump.  You can blame everyone who hates Trump.  You can blame the GOP and NRA but you also have to blame all of us who contribute to the culture of the American society in 2025.  We don't help one another, we don't support families as a culture, we don't believe in unity - we only believe in independence being the end all and be all.

Of course it's mental illness but there has always been.  Of course it's access to guns, but there always was.  Of course it's the combo that leads to all these mass shooting and there always will be.  It will never change because none of us will ever blame ourselves, only each other.

Not sure of the answer and likely, will never be one.  Only feel that it will continue and maybe the crux of our culture will be so destructive in so many ways that we can start with a new one in the not too distant future.[/quote]

There's a lot that's true in your post, but you also have to acknowledge that access to guns is materially different now than it was 50 years ago.  50 years ago, most of the guns in the US were made in the US, in factories in Connecticut and Massachusetts with pretty well compensated workers.  Guns were relatively expensive and were generally for specific purposes.  People had hunting rifles or hand guns.  No one outside the military had automatic weaponry.  (Look at the old mob movies -- for the most part, even they are using pistols that have 6 cartridges -- you get a shot to the chest and one to the head.)  Sure cirminals got them illegally, but even that was relatively difficult.  You didn't generally have teen criminals with guns -- they had switchblades or their fists.  
But then a couple of things happened in the 90s.  One was free trade that made foreign-made guns relatively cheap. (Those Winchester and Remington facilities in the northeast are all shuttered.) The other was a militarization of police forces, and they started buying more heavy duty equipment that was more like what the military had, and then selling some of the excess.  Now of course you can also add in 3-d printing to the mix.  The result is that there's a lot more guns out there on the streets and its pretty easy for someone to get one, either legally or illegally.  [/quote]

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