Stop in for a cup of coffee

The natural tendency to look for an answer that is easy to fix. ie find the conspiracy and eliminate it.
As one who has worked in both private and governmental organizations - you should know how hard it is to actually organize and successfully execute even a simple operation, never mind a secret one. :poke:

Exactly. Percentages could be the same, but population now is larger numerically than it was.
What I was thinking wasn’t a government conspiracy or a corporation thing. I was thinking more along the lines of a psychological effect. Not saying video games or movies or anything but more of something along the lines of this false sense of entitlement. If you look at most of the major mass shootings and even the smaller ones, it’s almost always due to a sense of payback. Like the one near me last year. Kid was turned down for a date to the winter dance, so he went home, broke into dads safe, got a pistol and came back and shot the girl who turned him down, a purple others and a teacher.