Charlottesville Electric Boogaloo 3.0

I’ll leave this unlocked but I think Jack might want to just seal this before it goes off the rails.

My general view on mass shootings might cover three dimensions

1. AR-15's are very ergonomic. It's highly efficient in mass killings. I noticed that back in the '90s when thrill killers were still a thing, albeit waning, from the '80s. I guess it makes their jobs easier. I base this from what a national security expert whom I know wrote. I don't know much about guns other than that

2. The death of mass politics. People don't organize along politically militant lines any more. Because we're a lot more atomized, sociopaths and disturbos who would have joined something like the Bolsheviks shoot normal people, instead of killing politicians and bankers, which used to be the norm. Consider how normalized political violence used to be from the '60s into the '90s (and waning over the decades) compared to the last 20 years

As undesirable as the recent spike has been, it's child's play compared to what used to be normal when Boomers were growing up, despite how much they try to whitewash that. Read about the street fights of the Weimar Republic

3. Lack of honor and shame

School shootings aren't new despite what people think. They've been going on since the 19th-Century. Difference is that shootings back then tended to be personal, and stopped there. So you'd find a principal kill a teacher or two. No one else harmed. Or a teacher kills a rival teacher.

The cultural character of shootings have changed. I can't help but think '90s edgelord culture from Gen X contributed to that Overton Window. When nothing is sacrosanct any longer, there is a spillover into crime and culture. These shootings started in the '90s for a reason. Some of that has to do with my second point. A lot of it has to do with this point. The lack of honor and shame in the family name really opens the window to horrific atrocities unseen in the past, even when general crime, political violence, and homicides were much higher

You can see similar contrasts between Italian mobsters and the West Coast gangs. Mobsters did have rules of war.

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All of these explanations make a lot more sense than what a brain dead comedian like Bill Maher thinks: "They aren't getting laid!!!!!"