Simple: The Government at the National, State, and local levels is so involved in "protecting" us from harm, that the natural weeding-out process has been interrupted. Ordinarily, accidents and other types of occurrences would remove these idiots from the gene pool, but now they are allowed to propogate in numbers unheard of in previous generations. That, and 40 or 50 years of public schools wherein children (who grow up to become adults) never learn how to really think. They're trained to be sheep, and to let others think the hard thoughts for them. They are taught that actions do not have consequences, other than to allow them to claim "victim" status and be rewarded for stupid behavior. We are reaping the whirlwind from the sowing to the wind that was done a generation ago.