In my longer lifetime the average citizen's chance of violence of any kind has increased, not decreased, along with the decrease of individual liberty and personal responsibility.
Technology has reduced the chances of dying due to disease and accident, but death as a (possibly unintended) consequence of politically based irrational legislation is greater. I suspect that the much higher incidence of violence in media has also had a negative effect.
OTOH, I could be wrong. It could be that the death statistics are down, but the media ahs been successful at creating greater fear than is warranted.
Property crimes are down, imo, because the worst offenders have manipulated the law to legalize their crimes.
(Looking for links to data on this issue and will post when I find them. Please post any pertinent valid statistics links you find on this here.)

Interesting analysis.
Perhaps I missed it, but I think the author should have gone one step further to expose that the political forces of American government (Dems, Neocons, RINOs, etc) are not the forces behind the path to the dark side. They are puppets, and the real danger to individual liberty and to free markets is allowing America to commit suicide on orders from Palpatine's new world order.

"We ourselves are mired in war, crisis, and insecurity."
I agree with almost everything in the article. We respond as if were facing terrifying perils even though we are not Actually, as American history and human history go, we're in a time of peace, amazing prosperity, falling crime, and increased security. In my lifetime, the average citizen's chance of being a victim of violence of any kind has dramatically decreased. It concerns me that people act so terrified. If something truly terrifying happened, I wonder if we would just self-distruct. We're ought to be braver.