"Murder wasn't a problem before the 1980s" -you This is all I see when you try to dismiss clear examples. Bye Felicia

"Left wing activists" why don't you just go use conservapedia if all you want is an echo chamber.... They defined the term in 1949. there is no data for this type of crime before that. So you trying to move the goalposts is telling. You said it wasn't a problem before the 80s. There are several examples right there that you are not being accurate. If you can't accept a correction and admit you're human then there is no point to continuing this farce.

Oh no, my phone jumped, and I'm human. [here since you're still too idiotic to look.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States)

[The following mass shootings are the deadliest to have occurred in modern U.S. history. Only incidents with ten or more fatalities by gunshots, excluding those of the perpetrators, are included. This list starts in 1949, the year in which Howard Unruh committed his shooting, which was the first in modern U.S. history to incur ten or more fatalities.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting) Maybe try looking before you make a claim.

So you're just going to ignore all the plane hijackings in the 70s and organized crime of the early 1900s or the bandit gangs of the western settler period... and blame everything on kids not having dads? Not on the economic policies that strained the families in those cities, which mostly affected poc, or how since Reagan the financial plan has been to tax the poor more heavily and the targeting of welfare programs because of the strawman "welfare queens", or the tax breaks we gave to mortgage holders, or the lobbying power we give to corporations and pacs. No one is attacking your right to worship Christ, but every time other religions try to worship in public, it's "OMG, we are under attack. " I hate to break the news, but that constitutional right also protects other religions (or lack thereof) from you.

That's literally a facet in conservative circles. If the solution you propose doesn't fix the problem entirely, it's not worth fixing.