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Originally Posted by Just Passin' By
We should cut him slack because, even though his comment claiming this was unheard of 20 years ago was idiotic, and even though it was absolutely not unheard of 20 years ago, there was a time, when the population was much lower than it is now, when it didn't happen as often? What the **** kind of logic is that? It was the 1989 shooting that led to the California assault rifle ban, for crying out loud.
In this country, school shootings have been happening since the 1700's, and kids have been popping one another in schools since at least as far back as the 1800's.
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Yes.
Because you guys are jumping all over a specific and ignoring the point (that I think) he was trying to make. School shootings have gotten a lot worse than they had been - yes, they existed back in Ye Olden Days, but look at the dramatic increase in recent years. It's not their existence that's new, it's their terrible and increasing frequency.