Why were mass shootings so rare before Columbine? I remember watching some kids show on KCET back in 1999 or whenever it was, and all that shit got stopped to show coverage of the shooting... on KCET or all networks. That was the first time I remember something like that happened.
Come to think of it, KCET was a network for kids educational shows. It's where Mr Rogers, (I think even Arthur), Sesame Street and other puppet shows aired. Maybe showing coverage of the Columbine stuff on channels like that was done intentionally to plant those seeds in the kids of my generation? Anyway, whatever, the question is, why did mass shootings occur far more after Columbine?
Is it the infamy one could build? If so, then that's a fault of the media and not the guns. Are people just crazier now? If so, why? And if that is the case, then they will find a way to murder with or without guns.
they weren't rare before columbine, columbine just told media that it was profitable to report it.
Robert Perez
There were 6 in 1999. There were 5 in 1993. So on and so forth.
Blake Perez
Because of the media. They use it to advance their political influence while unintentionally encouraging edgy kids to do it.
Edgy kids do it because it's an easy way of getting infamy without having to work hard. Why invest in a future where you're a silenced nobody when you can be a famous person who has their speech spread everywhere? That's what these dumb leftists won't get.
Jackson Roberts
You're too young to remember, but there were mass school shootings every year before columbine for most of the 90's. Columbine is just a big one everyone remembers because they set the high score for school shooters at the time, and there were two of them.
Parker Davis
Definition, please? Stanford study shows 70 of them from 1966 to Columbine.
Hunter Richardson
Mass shootings happen every day in black naighbourhoods, but they're called "gang shootings" instead.
John Ward
>Why were mass shootings so rare before Columbine? Lack of 24/7 news coverage
Kayden Jones
That's just school shootings, I'd wager. OP is talking about mass shootings, which includes but is not limited to school shootings.
Jayden Gutierrez
>easy way of getting infamy I do like easy.
Noah White
No Internet and social media
Julian Collins
It's all the MSM's fault. They have blood on their hands. They were chasing shekels and pushing a political agenda, they hyped up columbine so much, that it started influencing other crazies to "beat" whatever kill count columbine had.
If the media didn't report on it, mass shootings wouldn't be happening right now or at least not as often. Alas, the media benefits from dead kids, good for ratings and pushing gun control.
They don't give a shit about people dying. MSM is the enemy of the people.
Oliver Gray
There were plenty of real mass shootings before Columbine, not to mention the rash of serial killers in the 70s and 80s and all the murderous cults like People's Temple and Heaven's Gate among others. The modus operandi of these fucks is problem-reaction-solution. As Rahm said, never let a good crisis go to waste.
Anthony Roberts
Not as common i mean
Matthew Martinez
More and more children are being brought up without a solid Christian religion to BACKUP the legality of law. "THOU SHALL NOT KILL". It's easier to become a mass killer, when you believe there is no God.
Chase Rogers
It's the diversity. I shit you not we have too many groups at opposition to one another too many identities and goals clashing. Even when it's not outright we don't feel like we are a single country any more and it rips apart the undercurrents of our shared psyche.
Julian Gomez
Friendly reminder that David Hogg was the real shooter.
the same reason as to why japan also has instances of mass violence
Juan Stewart
If we're talking about mass shootings, and not just schools, then there were plenty back then. You ever hear the phrase "going postal"? It was because there were multipel shootings where a postal wokrer went on a rampage. There was the guy that went to the top of that bell tower in Texas and sniped a bunch of people in the 60's. I think there was a guy who burned down a school with kids in it back in the 20's or something. There was a guy who shot up a McDonalds in the 80's. These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there were more if you look them up.
Asher Wood
gets good ratings
Caleb Morgan
I think you need to: - reread what you read - try reading the full fucking conversation
Brandon Barnes
Mass shootings occurred, school shootings didn't happen often and I blame the morbid media circus that occured after Columbine for increasing it.
The causes for gang shootings and school shootings are very different. Nobody really cares about reducing gang shootings because they choose that life. But school shootings are something we should try to avoid, if at all possible, don't you think?
Justin James
>there were mass school shootings every year before columbine for most of the 90's. I was in high school and college in the 90s. I don't remember any school shootings that made the news. Certainly not one a year.
No one is talking about school shootings. OP was talking about mass shootings. The mass shooting that OP mentioned happened to be a school shooting.
So just to be clear... OP IS TALKING ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS, NOT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
OP IS TALKING ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS, NOT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
OP IS TALKING ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS, NOT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
OP IS TALKING ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS, NOT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
For fuck's sake, read the first 4 words of the damn OP.
Justin Moore
when has the news ever been honest
Jonathan Reyes
>Nobody really cares about reducing gang shootings because they choose that life
So black lives don't matter after all?
Luke Allen
I'm old. Everyone, black or white brought guns to school. We cleaned and prepped them in woodshop/metalshop, for deer season.
Now, guns are "forbidden fruit". So kids of course are drawn to them.
Adam Young
Only when you're using them to justify disarming white people.
Ethan Baker
Prove it then. Link to some reports of major school shootings that happened before Columbine. You will not dismiss my history because it doesn't fit your false narrative. Before Columbine the major national news ("where were you when ____ happened") stories were the OK City bombing in 1995 and the Challenger disaster in 1986.
Jack Smith
Why? The 24 hour news cycle has clearly devolved your brain.
Easton Thompson
Public schools are something to be avoided at all costs
Cameron Turner
Las Vegas, Nevada - 1982 Los Angeles, California - 1984 Spanaway, Washington - 1985 Portland, Connecticut - 1985 Fayetteville, North Carolina - 1986 Cokeville, Wyoming - 1986 (2 dead, 74 injured) Lewiston, Montana - 1986 Largo, Florida - 1988 Winnetka, Illinois - 1988 Chicago, Illinois - 1988 Greenwod, South Carolina - 1988 Stockton, California - 1989 (6 dead, 32 injured)
That's just the 80s. Every single one of them is a MASS shooting (because, you know, that's what this thread is about) .. and is also a SCHOOL shooting.
David Scott
Personal insult. No facts. What a surprise.
Jace Ross
these things happen all of the time. they have only been televising the ones that can be framed as wholesome, preventable tragedies for the last 20 years to support the "endtimes" narrative.
meanwhile, 40 shitskins will shoot each other over heroin in South Chicago tonight. and guns are banned there....
yeah, don't forget the Winnetka slaughter... the one where the headfucked mom shot up a bunch of children just down the road from where they filmed Home Alone
Alexander Lee
You got me. It's true.
Columbine was the first ever shooting in America.
Brandon Jenkins
It's funny how you guys are referencing when they happened one or two a year. We've had thousands a year since the ban on 'assault weapons' was lifted.
Mason Richardson
Because People didn't know you could get attention that way.
Also they weren't exactly rare. It was called "going postal" because it was usually associated with Postal Workers going nuts from the dross. This isn't a new thing, it just wasn't covered as much.
Robert Johnson
I still remember that school shooting from the 1920's when the kid went up to his teacher and shot him with an old 1800's shooter! :^)
Jamie pull that file up! :^)
Nathaniel Adams
Mass shootings started going up after the 60s, which is when America started going downhill
Benjamin Thomas
GodDAMN, that chick is hot.
Nathaniel Sanders
Scaring the shit out of the public was easier on 9/11. Now people are forgetting. So they're bringing the "lone gunman" back. This shit is all intentional.
Gavin Sanchez
We really need to start imprisoning you creatures.
I should have clarified that I didn't mean to imply that there weren't any school shootings. There was a hostage/suicide at a neighboring school of mine. It didn't even make the local news until about a week later. I intended to make the point that school shootings were not treated as national events before Columbine.
gotta jew fast. what works better at destroying sovereign nations: brute-force bolshevik revolution or slow, steady "civil rights" movement?
Asher Sullivan
Marylin Manson
Gavin Evans
>You seriously never heard of any of these before Columbine? No, bitch. I didn't. None of those was national news. Never had any discussion with any of my friends or teachers about school shootings in high school. Never had any school shooting drills. Never had to write a journal or prepare a debate about school shootings or even the 2nd Amendment. Went to high school on an open campus where anybody could walk in off the street. We could leave for lunch and practically everybody came back. No metal detectors, no police.
Nolan Wright
Yes they were national news you fucking retard. How the hell else did I hear about them living in the northeast with no internet at the time?
Gabriel Cook
And did your school have an assembly about it? Did you discuss it in your classes? Did you and your friends and classmates protest the 2nd Amendment? Were grief counselors involved?
Jonathan Russell
Because diversity is our weakness
Jacob Thompson
faggot boomer
Blake Williams
Now you're moving the goal posts. You incorrectly claimed they weren't national news, now you want proof about assemblies and protests and shit. Fuck off.
Ethan Ortiz
Ignoring the point like a brainless twit. It's not your fault, you were trained to be like that.
James Perez
>Maybe showing coverage of the Columbine stuff on channels like that was done intentionally to plant those seeds in the kids of my generation Are you suggesting the media arent saintly with only the purest of intentions? Its like the more they show something in the media the more it happens, but Im sure that's just a coincidence.
As I said earlier. My initial point was that school shootings were not a national topic of discussion before Columbine. They weren't. Even with all your examples, I still went to a High school with zero security and it wasn't a problem. Nobody was scared it was going to happen. I never went to school thinking it could happen. It was not something everyone was supposed to be worried about.
Evan Edwards
He's going to Harvard and you're not lol
Thomas Campbell
That and they work in tandem with the intelligence agencies who organize and carry out the shootings
Nicholas Powell
>when you realize the problem is schools, not guns
Joseph Carter
I've been thinking about this too. What did they start doing to that generation and everyone after? Was a new vaccine introduced? Its too odd that it just started all of a sudden and kept happening. Chem trails? Something introduced into the food supply? Anti-depressants?
Jaxon Ward
Pump kids full of drugs and hate and wonder why things go south? Really?
Cameron Lopez
Gneration X you stupid fucking millenial. This is EXACTLY why I will never hire a fucking idiot millenial.
Hunter Adams
oh fuck - you can't be that WOKE. Not even here anymore. Based!
Juan Bennett
the media ironically and purposefully makes all mass shooters famous edgy bois that other school kids make jokes about because when you are in school you are constantly dreaming about killing the kids who bother the fuck out of you everyday
Thomas Nelson
Gangs only shoot other gangsters, who the fuck cares?
Blake Harris
oh no he is going harvard to waste time with a useless education and go into debt lololololol
Aaron Clark
They're called SSRIs and they're big business with so called "side effects"
Grayson Turner
>Was a new vaccine introduced? No SSRI's and MOAI's made the market.
Josiah Cox
it was before race mixing was as promoted
Aiden Hernandez
There is phenomenon about how suicides come in clusters and reporting them fuels this. I bet is similar with these shootings since they are suicide missions really.
Samuel Reyes
>Why were mass shootings so rare before Columbine? No CNN. Seriously. Before the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, such shootings were rarely more than local news stories. They only got national coverage if they happened in certain large metro areas. (The near constant deadly street warfare in Chicago doesn't even get much coverage in Chicago today.)
Easton Brown
They've been happening for as long as we have had guns capable of doing it. It's just how the media likes to roll it out since the 90's.
Christian Perry
They're still rare. They just get so sensationalized that they stick your memory such that you remember them clearly.
Plus there's at least some that were staged. Not faked, staged; real people died and a body double was chosen for the task. Connor Betts was a false flag, the real Connor has been dead for five years
Anthony Fisher
Black lives matter, nigger lives don't
Leo Nelson
Video games. For anyone currently over 30, you were familiar with gun safety before violent video games became prominent. Zoomers are handed a controller and fornite without ever being taught to never point a gun at another person unless its in self defense.
Anthony Moore
got any documentaries on youtube or bitchute that go into these theories?
Port arthur shooting was in 1996 (look at how retarded that whole thing was) and over the next few years Australia banned guns. It showed the media and those in power that mass shootings could be used to disarm populations if you cry about it enough. The US has been remarkably resilient to this tactic
Nicholas Edwards
there doesnt seem to be any real logic for the Masonic-CIA niggers to use little mongoloid-bots to kill random ppl and get assault rifles banned
maybe it's just a pride thing for the heads of Masonry; The British, who are embarrassed that they've got the Patriotard Americans on their retard knees before ((their)) criminal cult's alter, locking the US in as a proxy-state, yet still are unable to get Americans under their thumb the way they'd prefer, as unarmed little cucks like their child-proof-scissors-only British subjects are.
Or maybe it's just another tactic to get the FBI dogs finances & focus distracted with chasing tennis balls...
I have no idea which were staged or not, I haven't delved that far into it. But there's always something fucky that clearly disproves the media narrative, and when MKUltra was a real thing, it's not a stretch to think the secret kings would consider it okay to blast a few peasants to rile up the rest. For the case of Connor Betts, they're purging all the old obits because they got caught. They even used the same pictures.
Remember, we are living under a regime propped up by the Prussian model of education, which seeks to abolish the individual, destroy skillsets, and create a populace that will only ever serve the Empire whether they know that's what they are doing or not.
Jonathan Gutierrez
>Why were mass shootings so rare before Columbine?
Because the country was like 90% homogeneous.
Jaxson Lewis
Based and yourscarringmeanonpilled
Joseph Stewart
Eric and Dylan knew they were going to have a legacy. They said "We're so godlike... we're going to have many followers." Their whole plan "inspired" so many other nutcases to do the same thing.
Jacob Turner
I went to the Wikipedia of "List of School Shootings in the United States", and in the 1990s, the next greatest fatality number of any School shooting was 6 (compared to Columbine - 15) and that happened in 1991. Most are 0-3 fatalities.
In the ENTIRE 1980s, the highest kill count was 6, as you mentioned in Stockton California. Highest in the 1970s was 7.
Basically, you need to go back to 1966 to the University of Texas Tower Shooting to exceed Columbine Kill count, 18.
So yes, it's absolutely fair to fucking say that to most people on here, probably born after 1970, Columbine was most definitely the biggest and most impactful event. In terms of strictly School shootings.
Brody Jenkins
42 year old user here. This is my opinion on why mass shootings were unheard of before 1999 columbine. Simple answer is the politicians in DC defunded all the mental health programs to enrich themselves back in the late 70s early 80s.It's why there are no special schools for retarded kids now, its also why there are no real mental hospitals compared to how many we used to have in the 70s and 80s. (only like 2 percent of the facilities across the country). We do not hold families accountable for their retards now, like we used to. (a child or retard used to do a crime the person responsible for them with power of attorney or parent/care giver would also have to answer for their negligence too). Parents of retards thought their little retards were "normal" and shouldn't be embarrassed by being segregated so now they keep retards in regular classes with the normal kids, only having a teachers aid in every class to help with the retards. They didn't used to do that in school. The retarded kids were always segregated to special ed or special retarded schools. Teachers used to grade conduct and use it to find the retarded kids or kids with behavior problems that couldn't function with normal kids and they would be sent to the retard school. That doesn't happen now. This is how you end up with severe bullying and real incels that are just retarded enough to not be harmless and actually know they are embarrassed enough to shoot up a school. It all comes down to a severe mental illness problem and not having the infrastructure to accommodate all the retards. It's why so many retards don't know what gender they are now.
Noah Cox
Just fuck off you idiot
Ayden Jones
Do you remember Columbine being Marilyn Mansons fault?
