"Violence never solved anything" was always a lie.

Not only a lie, but a prohibition from formal education coming into play just as our art and culture elevated the anti-hero. We raised generations to think that heroes can wound people just enough to arrest them with a minimum of hurt. We raised them to not tell the difference between vengeance and justice. We raised them to think that gang beatings equal nothing but bruises. That stun setting phasers are just some STEM funding away. That lasting pain, damage, legal problems and civil penalties went away quietly when they weren't happening to obvious villains.
It's as cruel and stupid a movement as leaving the sexual education of generations up to abstinence-only textbooks, romcoms, and porn.
And we are so reaping what we fucking sowed there.