WHAT WOULD PEOPLE FROM 1968 THINK NOW? It's hard to believe that 54 years ago (1968) a major NBC television show and hosts were calling out U.S. Congress for doing nothing about gun control. In the 1960s the U.S. averaged one mass shooting a year People were outraged. What would they think now? In 2022, there were 300 mass shootings in the U.S. in the first six months of the year.