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Originally Posted by Aries Walker
According to the Wikipedia list, there were nine school shootings in the entire decade from 1910-1919. By contrast, there have been 21 so far just this year.
Our population has quadrupled since then, so even if we quadruple the older figure as well, that's still going from 3.6 per year, to 21 per year, and this year isn't even over yet.
I'd say we can cut him a little slack on the 'unheard of' comment.
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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.