#1-There is always a small percentage of “crazy people” who do awful things. As the planets human population grows, mathematically so do the numbers of these people.

#2-In the days before information took one second to encircle the globe, no one far away knew if someone shot up a school or ate contaminated spinach. The information would arrive months or years later, or never at all if it didn’t seem all that important at that point.

I maintain that humanity has not matured or become civilized. I accept there are many exceptions but on average the rule holds we watch sensational stories such as the atrocity of the Amish schoolhouse shooting many with outrage and disgust but yet we watch and thus we are shown ever more horrible things.

Romans had horrendus gladitorial fights and sacrifices.

We have visual media both fiction and non-fiction but to attract the audience it always strive to be “edgier” than what has preceded.

People are as barbaric now as our ancestors only the technology has changed.