They're pretty common in my neck of the woods, as well.
Personally, I'm a pro-gun guy. We didn't have these kinds of shootings back when I was a child, but we DID have a gun in every home, and every car. Kids used to literally bring their shotguns into school and lock them in their lockers during hunting season. We had fights all the time, some times several in a day, but no shootings.
I blame the shootings on the drugs. You have to either be a psychopath (rare) or have your emotions artificially numbed (common) to carry out a lethal attack. Most people, especially kids, can't even butcher a chicken without fainting. It's the drugs that give these people the mental detachment necessary to carry out their crimes.
Yes, I also blame the proliferation of psych drugs. Nobody really knows all the effects of these drugs on young minds and big pharma doesn't care to know. !BBH
Big Pharma actually does have some idea, because they've successfully sued numerous times to block reporting on the drugs that shooters were taking, and studies showing adverse psychological effects.
Ah, those kinds of drugs :) I was confused at first there. That could definitely be part of it. I don't think kids put their guns in their lockers when I was younger, but I wouldn't be shocked if there were quite a few stowed away in their trucks from a morning of hunting.
We still have plenty of them stowed in student vehicles around here, but they quit letting the kids take them inside back around 2000.
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