Are People Cynical Towards Murder?

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In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting and the 184 lives lost in Baghdad happening within days of each other, I got to thinking about life and death and have a question for the MyLot community: When you hear about these murders and lives being lost...what do you think? I know we should be sad, but I've heard people just describe these things as just examples of homicide or examples of crime in the world and seem almost desensitized to it just because we are constantly exposed to streams of death, pain and human suffering. Could the average American (or any country, but particularly in the United States which seems to have more murders than most countries...even though I could be wrong, I am from America, so I'm exposed to mostly American deaths but do receive news about deaths and murders from other countries) really be that cynical?