And don't get me started on Dungeons & Dragons!
But the fact is, America has a long history of shootings taking place at schools. The two variables that have made them more significant today than in the past is (a) a 24-hour news cycle that gets reports on any such incident out to the entire world within a few hours if not a few minutes, and (b) deadlier guns.
'What the public needs to understand is that school shootings are tragically not a new problem caused solely by recent social or cultural shifts. This is an old problem, and the historical record is littered with stories of firearms ending lives in classrooms. But as those guns have gotten bigger, faster, and more accurate over the years, their death toll has become greater. And still many Americans ache for a past in which guns protected liberty and did no harm. But that past is imagined.'
Not to say that the solutions (to the extent that we can solve this) are easy, but that the problem is not as simple as some would have you believe.
Long history of US school shootings means Obama is right, NRA is wrong
Gun advocates say the cause of mass-casualty school shootings isn’t guns but eroding values. But America has a long history of school shootings. The toll is worse now because of the weapons available….