Trenchcoat mafia still recruiting

Please tell me. Is this happening more frequently, or are we just hearing more about it?

February 14, 2008
Gunman Opens Fire at Northern Illinois University

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) -- A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 18 people, four critically, before he killed himself, the school's president said. (AP via NYT)

From Columbine through the horrible day at Virginia Tech last year...just last week it was a random shooting at a college in Baton Rouge. What's up? Because all of this is some seriously scary, collapse-of-society, end-times shit.