My mom recalls that in the early days of her nursing career the govt started shutting all these facilities down largely as a cost cutting measure.
She said that back then these people had constant access to professionals and had access to mood altering medications and other treatments... They were either too content in their own little neverland or to medicated to formulate a plan to gun down a school full of people.
Many of us are asking the wrong questions.
The right questions are:
1. In the present age of tougher gun laws, why are these events much more prevalent than in the yesteryear of more lax legislation?
2. Many people much past the age if 30 are often heard saying "this sort of thing was unheard of when I was in school." But why? While in fact school shootings go way back, why has the frequency and severity of the attacks sharply increased since the mid 80s?
3. Why is it that someone like myself who legally owns fully automatic rifles has not once in 34 years ever committed mass murder, but someone who gets their hands on a semi-automatic "assault rifle" does commit mass murder.
Answer these questions and you're closer to your solution.
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