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I don't think young drivers are all to blame. Stupid drivers come in all ages. I can't speak for everyone else, but I define aggressive drivers as those who break the law. There's a big difference between driving aggressively and being in a hurry. The NHTSA defines aggressive driving as a combination of offences such as:
driving too fast for current conditions or speeding
tailgating
improper or erratic lane changes
improper driving on the shoulder
failure to yield right of way
running stop signs/lights
racing
improper turns
etc
All of those things are against the law in most places.
Roughly 20 or 30 years years ago, road rage shootings were a relatively new phenomenon. They got in the news more. They seemed to be happening almost constantly. There were jokes about them. On a trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, the passenger asked the driver, "got your freeway pistols?"
I also think people are less competent these days. People just aren't logical. Not only with driving, but life decisions, too!
The "adolescent" creep (being unhealthily coddled into a young person's adult years) isn't helping with that either. 20+ years ago (with rare exceptions where cars aren't as much a necessity, like NYC), it was a much, much more common rite of passage for 16 years to march straight into the DMV, take their driver's test, and be handed their license (after having a "learner's" permit for a year and driving with their parent). There's a younger generation who are delaying getting their licenses or even attempting to get behind the wheel with supervision, in some cases for years. And most states have passed more and more restrictive hoops that young people have to jump through to take on more mature responsibilities. So when someone reaches their 20's, when they have to drive, and are probably driving in strained rush hour conditions when everyone else is on the road, they don't have the judgment that would have came from having more experience.
At the same time, we have more and more older people on the roads. Some may still be okay drivers, but with the number of older people on the roads, there are plenty that really shouldn't be driving, and not nearly as many safeguards as on younger drivers to make sure they're okay to drive. Like younger drivers, when drivers get older, they're much more likely to cause an accident. But unlike younger drivers, where politicians are eager little beavers when it comes to passing all kinds of restrictions on their driving, they don't want to budge when it comes to passing laws that place reasonable safeguards on elderly drivers, to make sure they're still competent to drive. It would sure make the roads safer and save life, but older people are too much of a political threat to them to promote more sensible, logical legislation that would protect public safety, unfortunately.
Another issue is that places have a more diverse/mobile population than we did 20 + years ago. That doesn't mean the drivers are really better or worse, but it does mean that more drivers who are coming from wildly different places (both within the US and other countries) in terms of what are considered acceptable driving practices, and putting all of those drivers on the roads together (with more people driving in general) causes conflict in what's expected or appropriate driving.
Also, in the last 20+ years Driver's Education programs (at least in my state) have been de-emphasized, de-funded, or basically cast aside to the sidelines. Decades ago, that was a core part of the educational experience for high schoolers. Gradually, the classes were moved from during the school day to odd hours at night and on the weekends, or were completely eliminated in some cases. While driver's ed certainly isn't the only strategy needed to make the roads safer, shuffling it to a low or non-priority certainly hasn't helped.
We also have far safer cars than we did 20+ years ago. And people know it so they feel like they can drive on the edge more because there will be fewer consequences if they screw up. (There are a number of models these days that will have zero fatality years)
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