The problem is not guns. It’s society.
When I was a kid guns were everywhere, and much easier to obtain. Yet the concept of mass killing, with the rare example of say, Charles Whitman in the UT Tower, was otherwise virtually unknown. Now it seems there’s a mass killing every week, and even every day!
Since those early days of the 50s & 60s, education, mass media, Hollywood, advertising, etc., have changed America in so many ways it is not the country it was then, no less that which came out of the Revolution and the Constitution.
There’s more people, and a concomitant rise of the overall mentally incompetent and unsocialized evildoers in our midst. But the availability of guns is NOT the reason. It is society itself.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” —G.K. Chesterton
And, there are a lot more guns out here now than in the 50’s and 60’s. There were always rifles in unlocked trucks at my high school in Abq. Nobody had one stolen and no one got shot.
G.K.Chesterton...
Yup.