• atzanteol
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    11 days ago

    I thought we were talking about gun violence. Gang related or not it was a thing in the 30s.

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        11 days ago

        I literally quoted what I was replying to. “Schools” is not mentioned.

        At one point in the 1930s the Sears catalog would send a full auto Tommy Gun straight to your house via mail order with no background check. And yet in those eras the idea of a grand spectacle suicide/homicide event would have been absolutely unthinkable, even among the most disposessed in society.

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          11 days ago

          I mean gang violence is usually not a grand spectacle event, so it has nothing to do with the text you’re quoted.

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            Are you serious? There are “icons” from that era known for their violence and “spectacle”.

            Bonnie & Clyde; Baby face Nelson; Al Capone; John Dillenger; Machine Gun Kelly (before his singing career)

            FFS - MACHINE GUN KELLY!

            These people were horrible and killed a lot of non-gang members.

            “Newsreels from the period chronicled the violence. In one from 1931, footage shot in New York shows walls along a city street pockmarked with bullet holes, and the children caught in the crossfire of gang warfare.”