Given that the great drop in income inequality in the US happened during WW2 and the break to higher inequality happened in the mid 70ies in hindsight, I wonder whether this was just an artifact of demography. Labor just had it better for a generation because the world supply of potential labor had been martially shrunk and much competition just leveled.
]]>We don't react to threats, we react to challenges. Random chance of death is not a challenge. It cannot force a community to alter its policy. It will not grow worse by inaction. An ineffective reaction to it will not encourage others to also attack.
That also explains why the reactions to Anders Breivick and Timothy McVeigh were so muted. In both cases there was no organisation behind their attacks.