“To say it’s guns implies that Americans weren’t armed in the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, etc., but mass school shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States.”
My Mom, who is now 101, went to school on horseback in the ‘20’s. She said that boys brought guns in saddle holsters so they could hunt on the way home. If they shot something, they ate meat that night.
When I went to school in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s, it was common to see pickups in the school lot with rifle racks and a rifle in the back window. (Imagine what would happen if one showed up in a school lot today!)
When I was a kid I could have bought a gun at K-Mart. Ammo, however, required a driver’s license. They required your name, and DL information, which they recorded in a spiral notebook. (I remember this information was often used in fiction, like “Dragnet,” to find the killer had bought .38 caliber ammo just prior to killing the victim. Even then I laughed at this.)
A lot of things have happened to our culture. Men have been neutered out of being manly by feminist culture that pervades our schools and politics. There are more and more fatherless kids. The church and patriotism have been eliminated from the general life, thus removing higher purposes from individuals. The need for a higher purpose cut loose from God and country have led to perverse cultural ticks; transgenderism, cult of fame, men acting feminine, the list is endless.
In 1975 my junior high school History teacher took us to the range to fire his Kentucky rifle as part of learning about the Revolution.
A bunch of us brought shotguns, .22 rifles, 30-30 deer guns, etc, and stored them and the ammunition in the office of the Principal. After school we took them home on the bus.
Today we’d all be in prison.
L
101 ! Cool, My Grandmother on Dad’s side out lived all 3 of Her Sons. She passed at 103. Born in 1901.