What's with America and Violence?

Why do we as American's glorify violence? We slow down on freeways to look at accidents and watch the  evening news just to count the fatalities and if we even read news papers anymore we'd collect the clippings and set up scrap books and portfolios all depicting death. I recently had the opportunity to watch the lastest in the Saw film series (Saw VII or Saw 3D, whichever you choose to call it) and I realized that that movie was almost 2 hours of horrific death and death. Did I enjoy it? No I didn't enjoy one minute of it, it was just one grotesque brutality after another. Where have our American sensibilities gone? Once upon a time we we shocked and outraged by deaths and murders and now we collect them like stamps and trading cards.

So who's to blame? Can I sit here and actually point my finger at someone or one particular event? Since I was little there has always been this element of violence that has hovered in the corner, but before there was violence there was this element of sexuality lurking like a predatory animal. Somehow someone thought that changing sex with violence was a brilliant idea, in all honesty it's not. In this day and age I find it completely ridiculous that every where I look there's violence. Once upon a time sex sold, now violence has capitalized the market place. After taking a look at the past decade or so, I see that we are just raising kids in a desensitized environment and turning them into vicious animals. So the question I leave you to ponder is which is worse children desensitized to violence, or children learning about sex?