1. Weâre poorer than our parents were at our age. Few people have been through as many economic ups and downs as the members of Generation X. Born between 1965 and 1980, any entered the workforce during the boom years of the Clinton administrationâbut then along came 9/11 and, a few years later, the Great Recession.
The shooter, Charles Whitman, was a student at the University of Texas. A former Marine who grew up with an abusive father, he admitted to killing his mother and his wife in a suicide note. The next day, Whitman began shooting people from the top of the Texas Tower with a sniper rifle.
The shotgun, sources say, was purchased at a Walmart Supercenter in Cortland days before Charles Tan was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the fatal killing of his father, Liang Jim Tan. Sources knowledgeable about the case allege that Tan, 19, first went to buy the gun himself but ran into delays.