Originally Posted by
Meddle
In fact, it has been answered. I've outlined my days at Cerveny when there were lines of DPD Riot Cars parked outside at the end of the school day. There was enough school violence in Detroit schools then to warrant that and an armed DPD officer inside the school. There were shootings in Cooley and several other schools during my time. But at that time, most of the violence was gang fights and knife attacks. Some had guns, but there were a lot harder for a school kid to get. If they did, it was usually a cheap Saturday Night Special that had as much chance of hurting the shooter as anyone else. If anything now, society is more peaceful overall. You can see that by the dramatically lower homicide rates. Numbers have fallen to the low hundreds in Detroit instead of nearly a thousand.
What has changed is the proliferation of relatively inexpensive high power, rapid-fire near military grade weapons. The people most responsible for that are the NRA and their supporters and paid lackeys in Congress and on the Federal Bench.
As a result, a single annoyed knothead can now easily take out 15 or 20 people in seconds whereas in my time they could only punch or stab a couple. Plus, the goombah can get lots of practice with kill for points videogames.