>>Switzerland still has compulsory military conscription, with discharged Swiss males required until recently to keep their military weapon at home. Meaning at least one assault rifle or equivalent in almost every Swiss household. And yet the Swiss aren't shooting up their schools or conducting regular gun crime atrocities like the US.
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>Agreed.
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>I don't have any data to support it, but my sense is that there has been a steady increase in the number of shootings like this one over the past several decades.
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>One key element here is that just about all of the shooters were seriously disaffected men. Most have been under 40. Some have been early teens.
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>I don't recall a single female mass shooter.
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Have you ever heard the term "macho woman"? <s>
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