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Newb, I'm with you- I think the world IS a more violent place than it used to be. I'm not saying nobody ever got murdered before, but today gun violence is an increasingly standard reaction to life events. I live in Oregon, where the Columbine shootings took place- Ilived close by the school. That seemed to be the start of a cycle.

I grew up in Omaha. I used to hang out in the Westroads Mall (shopping center we called it then). I got snowed in there once and they showed movies at the theatre all night long and gave everybody food.

A few months ago as I waited at a bus stop in a decent part of town at 2 in the afternoon I was attacked by 3 twenty-somethings who tried to steal my groceries. Nothing like that ever happened when I was young. I'm willing to be labeled an old fuddy-duddy for stating what my life experience tells me- the United States grows increasingly dangerous.