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This Post Contains Information That Some Might Find Disturbing, All the Information is Based on Fact.


Dear John Dear,

Is it just me, or does it seem that crimes are becoming more and more our of control? Some people care no more about shooting someone than spitting on a sidewalk! Is this a warning? A sign? What do you think?

Gun Shy

Dear Gun Shy,

Sadly enough it hasn't, It isn't, It's not. Crime by its definition is out of control.(An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction: According to www.thefreedictionary.com) It's not crimes that are out of control or even the problem. It's technology; because of the development of not only weapons but of the ease of information transfer. Guns are more accessible now than they were 100 years ago and because of that people are using them more. If they didn't have guns they would simply start using knifes, boomerangs, or Yo-Yo's (invented originally as a weapon)because since the beginning of time there has been crime, and since people had thing others wanted there has been murder. The only thing to change is how easy it is to find out about these things.
I don't read the newspaper because it's full of Bad News. Not things I don't want to hear, but things of people hurting people, families being broken apart, true human tragedy. Things that the most disturbed writer would never be able to come up with in a thousand years.
The book: IN Cold Blood, By Truman Capote Is about a murder in 1959 where two men broke into a family's house and after cutting the fathers throat and shooting him with a shot gun, went and with a single shot to the head killed the wife, son, and daughter, after tucking each one in bed. That was one of the most horrific murders in the 1900's. That was nearly 50 years ago!
Although the "Murder Of the Century" One of the most written and talked about killings in the past 150 years is of course, "Jack the Ripper" or "Whitechapel Murders" as they were called then was a number of serial killings.
There is no way to truly know all the details, but here was one or more persons.(here on referred as Jack) Well Jack went around and would target women of the night, Hookers, and would slit their throats then Jack would mutilate the body and take specific organs. Nearly all of these murders were committed in relatively public places and not only were their no Eye Witnesses, and no one was ever caught. This was around 1890, over 200 years ago!
These are considered to be some of the most horrific murders in history because they got the most media attention at their times. If every murder in history was as well documented as this it would be well known that it hasn't changed much at all over time.

One good example of the media and it's cause on how we view things is the Great Fire. Or the Chicago Fire of 1871, it was all started by one mad cow, and all of Chicago Burned because of it. Although at the exact same time over four hundred miles North of Chicago the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin(along with number of other towns) Burned to the ground due to a forest fire. Somewhere near 2,500 people passed away in the fire, This remains the most deadly fire in all of written history. Though because of the remote location of the event went hardly noticed, and is completely over shadowed by the "Great" Fire Of Chicago( with an estimated 200-300 deaths)
This shows that if it doesn't make "good news"(sells papers) then its bad news, and Bad News is Good News because it's what people want to read.
If people took more stock in the good nature of people then that's what we would read about. Someone once said, "It is better to be Infamous than it is to be famous." and I agree, if you save a child from a burning building then you will be forgotten in a week, but if you set fire to the house you will be remembered for ever. Look at Hitler. He; through heinous and evil acts, is now rooted in history and on the minds of all people over the world.
The true difference is that everyone hopes to one day be the hero, no one plans on being the villain.

So people are not worse they are the same as they have always been, And that is the sad fact.
I'm sorry to tell you this but it's true and just as scary.

John Dear