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minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoWeren’t the 70s and 80s the peak of violent crime in the US? Including armed violent crime?
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·5 months agoIn general yes but this discussion is a out mass shootings.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·5 months agoThis discussion is about gun violence. Saying there weren’t a lot of school shootings back then is about as helpful to the root issue discussion as saying that cyberbullying wasn’t an issue before the 90s anyways.
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoAlmost all comments in this chain, and indeed the immediate one you replied to mention “school shooting”. Beyond that, schools and dangerous guns existed before 1980. Edit even the original meme is about a school shooting
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·5 months agoSchool shootings aren’t a part of gun violence?
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months agoOf course they are, but to suggest the same variables drive a school shooting vs a midnight gas station robbery is silly
minus-squareAnyolduser@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoBecause they’re different crimes with different motives committed by different people under different circumstances. Literally the only things in common between the two are firearms, humans being involved, and them both taking place on the planet Earth.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·5 months agoWhat makes those people different?
Weren’t the 70s and 80s the peak of violent crime in the US? Including armed violent crime?
In general yes but this discussion is a out mass shootings.
This discussion is about gun violence. Saying there weren’t a lot of school shootings back then is about as helpful to the root issue discussion as saying that cyberbullying wasn’t an issue before the 90s anyways.
Almost all comments in this chain, and indeed the immediate one you replied to mention “school shooting”.
Beyond that, schools and dangerous guns existed before 1980.
Edit even the original meme is about a school shooting
School shootings aren’t a part of gun violence?
Of course they are, but to suggest the same variables drive a school shooting vs a midnight gas station robbery is silly
Why’s that?
Because they’re different crimes with different motives committed by different people under different circumstances.
Literally the only things in common between the two are firearms, humans being involved, and them both taking place on the planet Earth.
What makes those people different?