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Violent crime (Including shootings) has actually been plummeting downward statistically for the last couple of decades. 
But now we literally hear about every single crime.
There was actually just a case I watched on Dr. G where a girl smothered a 2 year old and an infant and the people of Bexar County Texas refused to believe a child was capable of this kind of evil.  Then she went to live with her grandmother and smothered her dog which led to the grandmother turning her in to the police.
Life can get really dark sometimes. >

What the absolute fuck? >

Seriously this makes me want to just curl up. Fuck. >

This makes me want to never have kids. >

If they come out bad just smother them >

These sorts of horrible stories have been around a while, but for some reason they now seem extra worrying. >

I think absorbing the entirety of the Country's and World's horrible News stories, across all 8 Billion of us makes the shit seem out of whack and like things are more frequent than they used to be.
There are nearly 350 Million peoppe in the US.....thats a lot of lives to find fucked up stories in.
I dont think most crimes are any worse or more frequent that they ever were, we just hear about them more because we are so connected (save shootings...we have a real fucking problem there)
A 16yo kid(maybe 17) I went to high-school with in the mid 90s killed both his grandparents with a hammer, beat their heads to mush while they were sleeping and then burned the house down...they found him hiding in a dumpster behind a Kmart(or maybe it was a Jamesway, IDR) covered in blood.....I bet no one outside of my state heard about that, and i bet even a ton of people in the state didnt even hear about it...if that happened today it would be national news