Ill just say it's pure Evil in one of its many manifestations today. If it wasn't guns, some nut would be chopping people up or poisoning them to death. Evil...there are no limits.
Too true.
But consider this...
The world isn't as bad as it used to be. It's also not as good as it was when at its best. However, there are a few things to consider before adopting the popular belief that the world is going to hell in a hand basket moreso now than in the 1950s, 1800s, 1500s, 1000s, 500s, etc.
1. 24/7/365 news. Nowadays we see and/or hear and/or read about every-single evil thing that occurs anywhere in the world. That wasn't the case even twenty years ago, much less the period between Day 1 AD and 1990-2017 AD. So, now, we see more evil, hear about more evil, read about more evil, and therefore assume that there is more evil. As recently as the late 1950s, there were undetected and undocumented serial killers running around in droves and far more attempts at genocide than nowadays... but nobody knew about it. We had no clue.
2. There actually "is" more evil. How can there not be? There were only 1 billion people on the planet in 1804. There were only 2 billion people in 1927. There were only 3 billion in 1960. Six billion in 1999. Now we have right around 7.6 billion people on this planet of ours. More people = more evil.
Also, people are inherently evil. No one likes to hear this, but it's true. All of us are. If you're a old-testament-believing religious person, then you know that God didn't just fart out 10 arbitrary commandments. The ten commandments were the ten evil things that people were doing that God and Moses wanted to see stopped. Moving on to the new testament, if we weren't inherently evil, God wouldn't have had to come to earth in human form (Jesus), be crucified and die for the forgiveness of our sins. He had to do it, because we sin a lot. If we weren't inherently evil, we wouldn't have such a hard time "not sinning" - not doing evil things. Very simple concept, really.
3. Hey, at least nowadays families go to ballgames, movies, theme parks, etc. for entertainment instead of going to the coliseum with a basket full of eggs and rotting vegetables to throw at peasants as they were either being ripped apart by lions or fighting each other to the death. At least we've got that going for us in this modern world.
4. Better weapons. Period. It's easier for only one person to cause more collateral damage nowadays than ever before. Automatic weapons. Bombs. Dirty bombs, etc. All it took was one person to kill 58 people and injure nearly 500 others in Vegas a month ago. One person to kill 26 people in a Texas church a couple days ago. Two people to kill 3 people and wound 364 others at the Boston Marathon in 2013 . One person to kill 49 people in an Orlando nightclub last year.
5. We're more aware of the fighting and attempted genocides in the middle east now moreso than ever before. These people have been killing each other for millennia, but we didn't know about it and now they have nukes.
I might be right. I might be wrong. Maybe a combo of the two. Just one man's opinion. But, again, at least we're not stoning peasants for fun anymore.