One of the conditions of the last days is a world full of violence.
The world is a much less violent place than it used to be.
In many “primitive” tribes 10% to 50% of males died over time in internal and external violence. Black males in US today have somewhere around a one in 50 (2%) lifetime chance of dying by violence. White males something like one in 300 (0.3%). Women considerably lower, despite the nonsense you see about violence against women.
That’s with a murder rate in El Salvador of 71 per 100,000, vs. about 4.5/100k last year in USA. Probably will go up this year. Many countries in Europe are down in the 1 or 2 range.
There are numerous cities in USA with murder rates of 20 to 50. And certainly neighborhoods that are much higher.
Murder rates in medieval Europe were comparable to those today in New Orleans or Detroit, though perhaps not quite as high as El Salvador, at least over large areas.
It should probably be noted that “murder” was probably defined a good deal more loosely in medieval Europe. What we today would consider murder was often at the time classified as legitimate “private war” by nobles. Duels in medieval and early modern Europe were also often not considered murder.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/long-term-trend-in-homicide-rates.html
Exactly right. I have been frequently telling people this recently and they don't get it. One of the last verses in the Bible before the Great Flood says, "And the world was filled with violence."
Very few are paying attention. It has become pointless to say much of anything.