re: #108 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

There is really unlikely to ever be a single factor that acts in a purely linear fashion.

But this sentence confuses me:

Isn’t that an option to explain that right there, if you want to look for something simple?

If more US households had guns then a greater percentage of children had access to them in the past. If the theory that these mass / school shootings are a relatively new phenomena because of the availability of guns in society, the ubiquity of guns in homes when the boomers were growing up should have been reflected in the earlier bumps in the homicide rate. Anyway, most criminologists I’ve read have tended to explain that second bump in the homicide rate by the disproportionate number of young males dumped on society by the baby boom, the first bump is usually attributed to Prohibition.