I’m not from the US and I was a teenager in Australia when the Port Arthur Massacre took place and the post-massacre gun buyback was put in place. I now live in

I’m not from the US and I was a teenager in Australia when the Port Arthur Massacre took place and the post-massacre gun buyback was put in place. I now live in France where there seems to be about 1 civilian firearm for every 5 people. [1] I became aware of school shootings in the US after Columbine and since then it seems to be a depressingly regular occurrence, as the linked list attests. What was it like before Columbine? Were school shootings just as common, or less common? Did the rates of gun ownership shift since the 1990s? Has something changed to make school shootings more prevelant, or is it just more in the media? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...