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Bigger studies than the one she mentions? That must be one huge study.
Anyway, what is wrong with the world is these two guys.
I guess it's worth mentioning that the crime rates in the USA are now lower than they have *ever* been. Mass murders still remain extremely rare.
Children with special needs are most certainly taken better care these days. If you think otherwise, then you have no idea how shitty it used to be for them. Not to mention that child labor, which often wasn't very different from slavery, was still very common in USA in the 20's, before it started to disappear in the 30's.
Yeah, housing prices are higher (It's called "inflation", check it out). People on average also have much more money, and can buy much better houses with much better facilities, than they could in the 30's.
I dont have a problem with the fact that women are allowed to work, just the fact that if a woman (or man for that matter) wanted to look after a problem child they cannot.But yeah, now women are allowed to go to work. The horror, the horror.
In World War 2 women had to work because the men had to go to war. After the war, women continued to work and men started working again. The outcome?:
1. Higher housing prices because households had more money.
2. No more stay at home moms.
3. Children with special needs dont have mothers looking after them.
4. Mass murderers are on the rise.
We are powerless to stop this.
True but mass murderers has increased 5 fold. I still think that is a troubling thing.
True but mass murderers has increased 5 fold. I still think that is a troubling thing.
There is no doubt that the ability to report it has gotten far better. If you look historically, there have always been a lot of these types of crimes, but they didn't have the ability to get plastered all over the news instantly coast to coast.
Take child abductions/killings. As the father of a 2yo girl, seeing them constantly on CNN makes me absolutely paranoid, but statistically, its no worse now than when my parents let me roam all over the neighborhood by myself 30 years ago.
According to the 2010 FBI crime data, since 1980, single victim killings have dropped by more than 40 percent. While that's very good news, there's a new sobering trend: Mass murders are on the rise. This New York Times article researched the frequency of mass murders. It found during the 20th century there were about one to two mass murders per decade until 1980. Then for no apparent reason they spiked, with nine during the 1980s and 11 in the 1990s. Since the year 2000 there have been at least 26, including the massacre in Aurora, Colorado.
Um, mass murderers are different to serial killers. If a person kills that many people at one time even in the past it would get reported… wouldnt it?
As for where i got the 5x number.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201207/mass-murders-are-the-rise
I thought i posted it before? I guess not.
The problem is that the statistics aren't clear. It's it simply that there are more people and hence there are more mass murderers, or is it that the frequency really is increasing. And if it is, what is Ute cause.
It's definitely reported more though. In the past there would be a couple of news articles,,a couple of tv news segments, etc. Note it's 24/7 love coverage coming at you from Twitter, Facebook, CNN, tv, websites, email, etc.
USA's population in 1980 has been 215 million and 2013 315 million. AND in the period comparing 1980's to 2000-2013 has been 10 fold not 5 fold like my previous assertion but that could be an anomaly.
AS for reporting, what relevance is that? As long as the crime has been recorded y the police that's what matters. Are you trying to say that mass murderers are seemingly glorified today? Interesting.
I'm saying that people are far more aware of it
That is true. But what relation does that have to do records kept by the police?
The point is that while the numbers may have increased, the perception is that they have increased astronomically, when they have not