I suggest you do some further research. The CURRENT assault weapon frenzy began a decade earlier, and mass shootings predate that by a considerable amount.these shootings have only been occurring since about 1999).
The biggest mass attack in the US was with a bomb in the 1920s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster).
Nearly correct. The biggest mass killing at a SCHOOL (to date) was the Bath attack.
Others things that didn't happen at a school, such as the attacks of 9/11/2001 were much, much worse. And no guns were used there, either.
I call them bigots.So I am not sure how one would describe those who do not support gun ownership (2nd Amendment) rights. Other than call them Anti Gun..
What else do you call someone with an irrational hatred of someone or something, based on what it looks like? TO me the fear of an inanimate object and ascribing to it the power to control human behavior is not rational.
I don't know if you could correctly call it a mental health problem in the traditional sense, all of the mass shooters were at least borderline functional. What we have, as I see it is a serious mental ATTITTUDE problem.
People, for various reasons, believe they are owed the world as they wish it to be, and think it is valid to kill other people when they don't get it.
CHANGE THAT, and the problem will go away.
And no, I don't have an easy fix for that. I doubt there is one.
Which leads to the second problem, the fact that too many people demand an instant solution, and accept anything that someone promises is one.