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Originally Posted by Groundhog
IMO gun violence in the US has been normalized to the point where a large % of people (including some of the shooters) are almost detached from it. Watching the Louis Theroux episode on gun violence in Milwaukee that seemed pretty clear to me - strangers just firing at other strangers standing on the street for no reason at all, like it's the equivalent of smacking someone with a trout in an IRC chat client.
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If we're talking gun violence as a whole, and not specifically mass school shootings, the U.S. murder rate is at a 50-year low. The national murder rate was more than double what it is now in the late 70s and early 80s. And in many big cities like Boston and New York crime has decreased much more than that.