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Originally Posted by panerd
There were mass shootings when you guys were kids. If you are my age there was the Luby's cafteria, the mcdonalds shooter, hell the term going postal was due to deranged postal workers shooting up the post office. Older would have the Texas tower etc... The difference really is wall to wall coverage and "fame" these losers get with cnn/fox showing their picture and publishing manifestos. Before a lot.of them just offed themselves now they take people with them.
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But they are much more common now. And the death tolls are much higher. You're right that the coverage might be a reason for their rise. But now that they've become so common, maybe the trend will go down. A kid getting slaughtered at his school is out of the news cycle in a day. This would have been something talked about for weeks in the past.