To recap, you could buy fully automatics. Greater percentage of homes owned guns. But mass murders were a fraction lower.
What's changed in the last 50 years?
There was no need to convert them in the previous generations, because you could just as easily obtain fully automatics. But very few people decided to take their anger out on the masses.
I'll keep repeating this. Guns have been around for centuries. Crazy has been around since dawn of man. Mass murders are only a generation old. What's changed to account for that rise?
It's not the same discussion because the motivation is completely different. You aren't going to be nearly effective by treating these situations in the same way. You treat the cause, not the symptom or the effect. Preventing a random shooter who snapped because of gambling debts or mail order bride gone missing is not the same as a mass shooter who's acting upon a perceived higher calling.
Could it perhaps, maybe, possibly be that people are waiting for more details to come out before framing an opinion?
Other than praying for the survivors and mourning the departed, there's not much to say at this point.
Guns have been around for centuries, crazy has been around forever. Mass murders with guns skyrocketed only in the last generation.
What has changed, and who's been driving that change?
Yup, they've been getting breaks and timely turnovers. That can't hold up for the entire season. But they are playing solid fundamental football, and the process that McBeane are talking about is taking hold. This should be a fun team to follow going forward.
2 of those 4 wins came against QBs who shouldn't be starting in the NFL. 1 came against a rookie and the other against a beat up Palmer. In retrospect, the quality of wins were proved out over the course of the season.