>I was just talking to a guy here in the office about this NY law. We're both mid 40's, and we both remember when we were kids/teens. You just didn't see this kind of violence. The same types of weapons were around. heck, higher capacity magazines were around, as were assault weapons. Yet people didn't go around shooting dozens of people.
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data

FWIW, back then, we didn't have cable news, so something that happened on the other side of the country didn't get the same coverage it does today.

Having trouble finding data that goes back earlier, but I knew about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

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