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I feel sorry for my son... gone are the "good old days". :(
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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1569355" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>To be be fair, you made it seem like there is a much higher chance of a kid being raped/murdered/abducted that there was when you were a kid. It just isn't so. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html" target="_blank">http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm" target="_blank">http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm</a></p><p></p><p>The only thing different between you and your parents is your exposure to it on a broad level via the media, and your reaction to it. I gather you're in your 30's or 40's based on your posts, if so you were likely out roaming the streets during years that were statistically more dangerous than where we stand now.</p><p></p><p>People have a selective memory. We've had threads here talking about the "tension building in America" being unlike anything we have ever seen. Granted most of them were too young to have seen all that, but some of the posters agreeing with that had lived through the Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Gas Crisis, Vietnam...the list goes on and on. I'm too young for all that stuff, but common sense tells me that for example...tension in America towards the end of Vietnam make any "tension" today seem laughable. People like to remember the old days as good, when really they are just old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1569355, member: 4319"] To be be fair, you made it seem like there is a much higher chance of a kid being raped/murdered/abducted that there was when you were a kid. It just isn't so. [URL="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html"]http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html[/URL] [URL="http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm"]http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm[/URL] The only thing different between you and your parents is your exposure to it on a broad level via the media, and your reaction to it. I gather you're in your 30's or 40's based on your posts, if so you were likely out roaming the streets during years that were statistically more dangerous than where we stand now. People have a selective memory. We've had threads here talking about the "tension building in America" being unlike anything we have ever seen. Granted most of them were too young to have seen all that, but some of the posters agreeing with that had lived through the Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Gas Crisis, Vietnam...the list goes on and on. I'm too young for all that stuff, but common sense tells me that for example...tension in America towards the end of Vietnam make any "tension" today seem laughable. People like to remember the old days as good, when really they are just old. [/QUOTE]
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