My high school had a rifle range in the school basement. Surplus WWII weapons were easily and cheaply purchased by mail from Ye Old Hunters Lodge. Murder was considered a horrible crime. Strongly agree, it’s not the guns or access to them but the attitude of people. Thanks in part to some of my favorite movies, we blurred the line between good and evil and now live in a gray area. With abortion we cheapened life. Now we rewrite history to make founders bad guys and almost daily challenge the laws and framework they gave us. We have become lazy and look at socialism as a utopia instead of realizing it represents slavery. The sad reality is that as we age, we will become victims to younger generations not embracing those attributes which made America great. MAGA is not just a slogan but a chance to save an America founded on Godly principles.
The local Western Auto store and the hardware stores sold guns and ammo.
A brick of .22 for 49¢.
In Jr. High and High School we brought our .22 rifles to school and kept them in our lockers to go target shooting crows or dump rats when school let out.
No one paid much attention to a couple boys carrying .22 rifles walking through town to the Western Auto and then down Main Street to the open dump for some plinking.
Add to your assessment:
* the proliferation and ubiquity of “first person shooter” games desensitizing kids.
* violent movies and music desensitizing kids
* breakup of the nuclear family and loss,of a strong father figure
* women joining the workforce in large numbers in WW II and thereafter
* welfare encouraging th ebreakup of families
* liberalism ushering in the era of relativism and destroying the simple objective notion of good and evil
* the rejection of Constitution as the bedrock of all objective law in the country — liberals make up any law via the judiciary that feels good at the moment.
* I totally agree with you that the horror of abortion mirdering 50 million or more of the most innocent babes is a HUGE factor in this as well as the removal of God from the public square
ALL of the above were forced on us by liberals.