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guns have been everywhere for a long time, it's just what people are willing to do with them now.
I went to high school in a small town in Ontario, where there is very little gun violence. A good buddy of mine came to my high school because he was expelled from his for bringing a gun to school, there was no ammo, and there was a trigger lock on it, he just wanted to show it to a couple buddies (and he totally deserved to get expelled). In grade 12, a guy was shot at our school, but it wasn't a wack job trying to kill a bunch of kids, it was a sore 20 something looser in the military who was dating a chick in grade 11 and she broke up with him, he came to the school with his gun, stood in the smoking area calling her name, pulled out his love handle with one hand and shot through it with the other.
Danger has always been around, sure it has gotten worse, but how worse it has gotten is amplified by the fact that we perceive danger a lot differently than we did when we were kids. I also thought that nothing dangerous ever happened when I went to school, what is this world coming to? 5 minutes of thinking back and I can up with two examples of guns at school in a town of 5000 people, 1 where a guy got shot.
you perceive danger differently when you are a cocky kid in high school. That guy who shot himself, i remember hearing the shot, everyone ran, know where they ran? they ran towards the sound to see what happened, knowing full well that it was a gun shot. So we look back thinking thigs were tame, now they are terrible.
don't you guys remember being kids and all the old people saying "what the hell is this world coming to, these kids are out of hand, their parents must be doing nothing, these kids will all be in jail some day".
20 years later people our age are waling down the street saying "what the hell is up with kids these days, they are out of control, where are the parents, this never would have happened when I was a kid, we respected older people".
No, you didn't!
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