Rufus_Reddit
Rufus_Reddit t1_jddh5pk wrote
Reply to comment by Bekiala in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
> ... What I am referencing is that the guns bought over time don't go away. ...
Ah. I misunderstood. I thought that "huge proliferation of guns now" was intended to be about some kind of recent change in gun availability or gun ownership. I think that everyone agrees that there are hundreds of millions of guns in private hands in the US.
In case you care, it's not that hard to find other charts of gun ownership rates over time:
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html
For reference about where Rand stands on gun policy:
Rufus_Reddit t1_jdd6qis wrote
Reply to comment by Bekiala in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
Can you expand on what you mean by "huge proliferation of guns now?" Gun ownership rates have mostly flattened or dropped over the last 20 years. (https://www.pewpewtactical.com/gun-ownership-through-the-years/ )
Rufus_Reddit t1_jdd1qyq wrote
Reply to comment by Hooterdear in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
Analogously, millions of people in the US have guns and don't commit (or want to commit) school shootings either. Even so, gun control proposals are a popular response.
It's obviously true that media coverage of school shootings isn't sufficient to make people commit them, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a factor in people's decisions. (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting_contagion)
> ... A study conducted in 2015 suggest that the Columbine shooters inspired a minimum of 21 mimicked shooting and 53 attempted plans to commit such an act in the U.S. over a 15-year period. ... (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764218763476 )
Rufus_Reddit t1_jdcs0bh wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
Maybe you mean shootings in general, but school shootings seem to be on the rise. Wikipedia lists about 8 school shootings per year in the 2000s, about 25 per year in the 2010s' and about 36 per year in the 2020s so far. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present) ) I guess reporting standards could have changed or something.
Rufus_Reddit t1_jdcqssq wrote
Reply to comment by too_old_to_be_clever in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
People constantly talking about school shootings is probably a factor.
Rufus_Reddit t1_jde9gk3 wrote
Reply to comment by WaterFriendsIV in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
The ones that [I] knew about ended up in other schools. (Possibly ones that specialized in maintaining discipline and safety.)