There was the beginning of a new US president and their staff, Congress had kinda, slightly, flipped to the Dems. So there was a chance that, maybe, possibly, there would be some "progress". editors note: there wasn't
The failure of the January 6th 2021 riots to actually do anything meaningful, (increasing police/military budgets don't count, that would have happened anyways). Might have proved to a large chunk of the US population that right wingers are just as much about the LARP and internet updoots as much as the sissy liberal soyjacks. Could have sucked the wind out of the sails for random right wing stochastic terrorism for a bit.
The ending of the COVID checks and extended COVID unemployment benefits, etc. I would like to believe that having that financial help, lots of people's angst and fear was somewhat diminished. I'd like to believe that somehow, the collective psychic stress being reduced in this way, maybe could have had a positive effect in the overall number/severity of mass shootings in the US. But I realize that I'm doing all kinds of wishful thinking.
Maybe I'm being too superficial but,
There was the beginning of a new US president and their staff, Congress had kinda, slightly, flipped to the Dems. So there was a chance that, maybe, possibly, there would be some "progress". editors note: there wasn't
The failure of the January 6th 2021 riots to actually do anything meaningful, (increasing police/military budgets don't count, that would have happened anyways). Might have proved to a large chunk of the US population that right wingers are just as much about the LARP and internet updoots as much as the sissy liberal soyjacks. Could have sucked the wind out of the sails for random right wing stochastic terrorism for a bit.
The ending of the COVID checks and extended COVID unemployment benefits, etc. I would like to believe that having that financial help, lots of people's angst and fear was somewhat diminished. I'd like to believe that somehow, the collective psychic stress being reduced in this way, maybe could have had a positive effect in the overall number/severity of mass shootings in the US. But I realize that I'm doing all kinds of wishful thinking.