'There Were Rampage Killings All Throughout U.S. History'

From Brookfield Readers:

"What has changed in our country ?

Until 1962, a 12 year old could order a gun from Sears and have it delivered to his home.

I know an older gentleman who used to sling his 22 rifle over his shoulder, walk down hill to the middle school in New Milford, and put his rifle in his locker. After school, he would take his rifle and shoot rabbits and squirrels on his way home, and his mother would make Mulligan's Stew. No one thought this odd or dangerous and no one said anything.

An older gentleman once said, "When I was a boy, (around the 1930s) every boy had a 22 rifle......BUT WE DIDN'T SHOOT EACH OTHER !" .

What has changed in our society ? We didn't have so many mass killings/massacres in the past. Why is our modern day America producing so many psychopaths ?" —

"Nothing has changed. There were rampage killings all throughout United States history. Here's a Wikipedia compiled list http://goo.gl/1lJfQ (you can order by United States to find the relevant info). That also doesn't include school shootings, workplaces shooting, and a few other that get their own sections (you can find links from that article).

It's not that we're doing something so obviously bad that we're mass-producing psychopaths--Heck, men used to settle debates through marching paces and firing at each other. To be honest, there's not that many massacres, this isn't a daily thing. But we're talking about a country that was about the same size (I'm ignoring Alaska and Hawaii) 80 years ago but has doubled in population. There would be an expected increase in the amount of these occurrences with that trend.

That being said, I made a comment on the Patch the other day about an issue with how the media reports these kind of events. See http://goo.gl/O3Q4T.

Gun control isn't going to stop something like this from happening. It's just not. There's so many other methods that you're just going to piss off people that are responsible gun owners.

I love US history, I indulge in it and if there's one thing I can say that has changed is that we didn't used to scare so easily. And when we did scare we met those obstacles with monumental efforts for humanity. We built the greatest highway system of the time and we went to the moon. Not today, today we make the TSA." —

From Neighboring Patch Towns:

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“You people need to learn compassion. You don't know what his story is or what he's veen through. Before opening your mouth you should stop and think. Maybe people being so judgmental is one of the many things wrong in this world!!” -

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“We have all been witness to what more rules and regulations do for Americans. The middle class will be regulated out of existence within the next decade. The strong majority of gun owners are ordinary people that are law abiding. More regulations will not help.” –

Barlow CAPT Scores Remain High

"How much longer will we can sit here in our beautiful quiet town, in our air conditioned homes, with our green grass growing and our flowers blooming, congratulating ourselves on our great schools and only looking to places like Weston and Darien for comparison? Right in our backyard we have some of the worst schools in the state. It is time we thought about more than ourselves." -

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"He should be the LAST guy to talk about anything based on some of his shady dealings before he departed public office. The concept of lecturing the public on anything should be left to those who practice what they preach. I guess that eliminates 95% of the politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle." -