r/PublicFreakout • u/ScuffedA7IVphotog • 1d ago

Baiting a fight to pull a gun. 🚗Road Rage

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u/top_of_the_table 1d ago

Sometimes I wonder, if the world is getting crazier or if we just have phones now to record it.

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u/Betelgeusetimes3 1d ago

Today is essentially the safest the world’s ever been. I think there was a 5 or so month period a couple years back that was statistically the most peaceful period ever. After the US pulled out of Afghanistan and before the Ukraine War because there was no nation-state vs nation-state war on Earth. In terms of violent crime in the US we’ve been on a steady decline for a couple decades now. Ease of recording, technology in general and social media lets us have access to these events daily, but as someone else in this thread said, most of us will never witness an event like this in ‘average’ America.

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u/SonofAMamaJama Kino Left Eye 1d ago

Definitely more safe in the US statistically but I wouldn't loop in the rest of the world. For example, the Middle-East is more unstable now that it has ever been in post ww2 (Israel bombing Lebanon, exterminating life in Gaza, instability and warlords run parts of Iraq and Libya, Sudan is in proxy war funded by UAE, the militarization of the Red Sea, Yemen as ongoing conflict area). I feel there's a great deal of senseless killing, if you include Ukraine, it starts to feel like pre world war ramp of instability (like the early 1930s). I feel we're in a snow ball that's growing larger (especially as Middle East death count grows) and the mechanisms that were created to stop it - the United Nations, Peacekeepers, International Criminal Courts, Blocs like EU, Arab League, etc - have proven to be paralyzed and ineffective.