• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      I mean, I’m pretty sure guns are banned.
      For now…

      (I don’t think that law passed allowing teachers to carry, but just a matter of time before they try again)

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        19 hours ago

        Guns used to not be banned and there were a lot less school shootings. Every boomer and gen X you talk to will tell about when kids kept their rifles in the truck to go hunting after classes.

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          16 hours ago

          I’m a millennial, I had a gun in my car during hunting season, a few years later that would have landed me in jail. The cultural shift actually moved very fast. Same with drinking in bars underaged. Within a few years it went from doing it everywhere to doing it almost nowhere. I could drink in bars underaged at 15 but not at 19, because the policy enforcement shifted that fast.

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            18 hours ago

            Which is seperate from the school shooting rate. Using the Reidman database you can see the spike starting in 2014.