[SkyDancer]

Liberals saying that we need protection from ourselves. My grandad used to go to NYC by himself, on the subway. He was eight at the time. He’d ride the subways just for the heck of it looking out the front window of the first car. All alone and was never accosted by anyone.

[PROCON]

I used to walk 1 mile to Kindergarten by MYSELF, in Seattle!

[Vigilanteman]

My kids did the same thing from the mid 1990s to 2000s in Kobe and Tokyo Japan. One summer they even took local trains (six hours, several transfers) from Kobe up to visit friends in Tokyo. My girls were 10 and 12 at the time.

There is no reason the USA couldn't do the same thing today if we adopted some of the same values and intolerance of crime which the Japanese have, and which we still had back in the days when your grandpa was a pup.