Comment Sensationalism (Score 1) 1168
I agree that we're becoming less violent, but the news is becoming more sensationalist and therefore people think we're becoming more violent.
This comes up a lot around the fact that it's frowned upon to let your 10 year old child walk somewhere alone in many places, even though child kidnappings are way down from the 80's when 10 year olds walking around by themselves was perfectly normal.