Does anyone care that the murder rate in the US is lower than it has been in a long time?

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Mass shootings in a age of instant mass awareness of such news.

The large number of dead make these atrocities loom large in the public awareness, in no small part because we're absolutely inundated with stories about them, social media references, etc. This makes it seem like we're killing each other off at an unprecedented rate...when that's manifestly not the case. The vast majority of people being murdered die with little fanfare, and the factors behind their deaths, usually very different from those that produce spree killers, remain unaddressed.

It's a bit insane...but that's our society in a nutshell.