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Sorry- I meant the shooting by Kip Kinkel in Thurston high school, 1998.

Yes, there have always been wars. Not denying that.

I believe what newb is refering to is an ever increasing amount of personal violence in people's lives. It's a rather easy and facile argument to say "oh, it's just reported more often." I don't think it's just that. When I was growing up nobody ever took a gun to school. Yet where I live teenagers are arrested with guns at school every week.

Sure, the world is rough. My statement was there's more danger in the United States than there was 40 years ago. Look at the statistics on guns on the street.

I don't spend my life cowering under my bed, but neither do I deny what I see around me. I have memories of 40 years ago. I was there. It wasn't like this.