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> And certainly you can’t eliminate teenage angst, which is likely the real culprit here. So why weren't teenagers in the 60s shooting up crowded places with f
by umvi 7y ago
> And certainly you can’t eliminate teenage angst, which is likely the real culprit here.
So why weren't teenagers in the 60s shooting up crowded places with full-auto machine guns (they were fully legal and accessible back then)?
- azinman2 7y agoA lot were, they were just in Vietnam and not the US. It’s certainly not the case that they had more access to mental health. Hence back to the media part. Society / culture changes... 60s was a wave of anti-violence by youth. That likely had carry over effects. What was on TV and the methods of consuming information was totally different. You also didn’t have so much contradictory (dis)information going around. Given where we’re at, something needs to give or we’ll just continue to spiral. This report is a great micro-example of how environmental stimulus affects drastic action.