We are living in pretty difficult times right now. Terrible things happen every day. People are doing bad things to each other. Road-rage has become an ordinary coupling of words in our vocabulary, immediately translated by the hearer to mean that someone got in another person s way on the highway and was shot, often to death, by the offended party. Bodies are found in parks and along roadways, people murdered and discarded.
Children kill parents.
Cities riot over perceived racial injustices. Polls are taken to see if people generally trust policemen. And others are campaigning for the right to watch an execution live on television. They say it is necessary to bring closure to another terrible explosive event that killed people. But you warned us about violence begetting violence.