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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1111048" data-attributes="member: 14668">If &quot;access to guns&quot; is the reason for school shootings, then why werent school shootings commonplace in the 1950&#039;s?Back then, there were no background checks. No waiting periods. No magazine capacity restrictions, or silly feel-good bans on so-called &quot;assault weapons.&quot;Back then, you could buy guns at hardware stores. You could buy them at flea markets. You could buy them at Sears, JC Pennys and Montgomery Ward. You could order them through the US Mail. Nobody checked your ID or took your fingerprints.Back then, many high schools had shooting teams that competed against other schools and clubs. It was commonplace for team members to bring their rifles to school with them on match days. It was also commonplace during hunting season to see deer rifles in the gun racks of pickups driven by students in the school parking lot.By any objective standard... guns were far easier for students to obtain back then than they are now, yet school shootings and massacres were unheard of.Given this fact...is it then accurate to blame guns for the problems of today? Or is blaming guns just an easy copout for people who cannot or will not face up to the fact that a much deeper and darker sociological phenomeon is at fault?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1111048, member: 14668"] If "access to guns" is the reason for school shootings, then why werent school shootings commonplace in the 1950's? Back then, there were no background checks. No waiting periods. No magazine capacity restrictions, or silly feel-good bans on so-called "assault weapons." Back then, you could buy guns at hardware stores. You could buy them at flea markets. You could buy them at Sears, JC Pennys and Montgomery Ward. You could order them through the US Mail. Nobody checked your ID or took your fingerprints. Back then, many high schools had shooting teams that competed against other schools and clubs. It was commonplace for team members to bring their rifles to school with them on match days. It was also commonplace during hunting season to see deer rifles in the gun racks of pickups driven by students in the school parking lot. By any objective standard... [B]guns were far easier for students to obtain back then than they are now, [/B]yet school shootings and massacres were[I] unheard of[/I]. Given this fact...is it then accurate to blame[I] guns[/I] for the problems of today? Or is blaming guns just an easy copout for people who cannot or will not face up to the fact that a much deeper and darker sociological phenomeon is at fault? [/QUOTE]

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