Violence in America is nothing new... in the last decade or so it’s risen to a level rarely witnessed since Jim Crow and the Klan. concordmonitor.com/My-Turn-Tired-…
Milton wrote in Paradise Lost:
“First Moloch, horrid king besmear’d with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents teares,
Though, for the noise of drums & timbrells loud
Thir childrens cries unheard, that past through fire