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Kudos for citing actual facts/studies. But these are about sentiment, which in a digital age where personality has been reduced to opinion and thus amplified for effect, might be both manipulated and less significant.

By contrast, acts of bombings and other political violence were both more common and widespread in the 1970's and 1980's than now.[1] In those cases, people took great personal risks.

[Edit: removed Nepal, mentioned in other comments]

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OPSR_TP...