another day, another mass shooting

iaparent
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:26:17 +0000

I have no idea but have wondered, are there any stats as to if the number of mass shootings have gone up since say the 80’s or is it just that we now more about them because of the internet and 24 hour news cycle of today? Would the Jacksonville shooting have been much more than a filler article in the local paper in 1983?

I vividly remember 2 big shootings from the lte 80’sand early 90’s but that is only because I had a connection to both. The University of Iowa Gang Lu shootings (I knew the shooter and never saw it coming) and the Lori Dann daycare shooting in the Chicago suburbs (I later worked with the ex-husband). These were both in the early days of CNN an did get some news coverage (very odd to see a “friend’s” picture pop up once the identity is known) but not to the level they would get today and are mostly forgotten about by anyone not connected to them.