I was watching the CNN presentation of "The Assassination of President Kennedy" and saw the response of men in Dallas which was to "Cut up Kennedy's Assassin in 1 thousand pieces, to burn him slowly alive and for the mob to be allowed to kill him". These kinds of very visceral reactions to almost anything were still common in the early 1960s everywhere in the U.S.
However, as the population of not only the U.S. but the world has grown since then by about 3 times or more people find they cannot really say in public what they actually think or feel without creating violence that will get out of control for any society to deal with in a useful way.
So, generally speaking because people are now more educated NO ONE ever says exactly what they feel in public. Instead one by one as people go crazy from repressing their feelings, the weakest links go crazy from their repressed feelings now and kill a whole bunch of people.
In some ways I think it was healthier for people to say in public what they actually felt rather than having individuals go completely crazy from all the repression of present day society in the developed worlds and cultures like here in the U.S. and just buy a gun and start killing people with the end being the person also kills themselves.
Even though it could be very scary in the 1960s at least people were allowed to be honest in public about how they felt and not so many individuals went crazy and killed a whole lot of people ending with themselves.
When people were allowed to speak what they felt, the kinds of people that were going to potentially going to kill others were known by the public and dealt with one way or the other more. Either people like this were "disappeared by police or the public" permanently from view as in dead and buried in someone's back yard or they were put away in mental institutions where they could only harm themselves or a few inmates there and not the general public.
Anyway, I guess I'm saying that our society has lost somehow the ability to deal with mass murderers before they murder anyone.
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