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But neither school arson nor school bombings became an attention-focusing aspect of American life the way school shootings did.

Why? Was America always fated to have a mass killing shooting problem? Perhaps: America always had a lot of guns. Rifle practice was common in American schools until late in the 20th century. But previous eras didn’t see students getting shot en masse.

One unsatisfying but not implausible theory is that school shootings are just a contingent cultural construct: For most of American history, virtually nobody shot up schools for the same reason that virtually nobody demanded a sex change: Because whoever heard of such a thing? But once a bad idea becomes thinkable, it can sometimes have quite a run among the unhealthy.

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