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What if instead of the 1990s, the current epidemic of mass shootings and spree shootings in the US had begun 20 years earlier, in the 1970s? Let's say it starts with a Columbine-like school shooting in 1979, then several mass shootings at places like restaurants and offices as well as schools throughout the 1980s. By the 1990s, mass shootings have become as common in this TL as they are in the 2010s in OTL, occurring in some form across the country multiple times a month, with 5-50 killed in any given incident.

What would be the main impacts on US politics, particularly with regards to the NRA, the arms industry, and the 2nd Amendment? What would be the partisan positions on this issue during the ATL 1980s and 1990s? How would it affect US elections? And how would it affect and be connected to US popular culture, including music, film, and later, video games? Would a solution be found earlier, or would it devolve into the stalemate we seen in OTL currently?
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