text: 24 of the Top 25 Mass Shootings in the US occurred after 1970, with most of those occurring after 1980. 
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  There was a "fundamental shift" in our society's thinking around 1970 that influenced an entire general to change its opinion on how life is to be valued.....and that "change" and "shift" caused the "sudden surge" in mass shootings in "this generation."