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Sounds like a friend of mine when I moved to Arizona 40 years ago. "How can you feel safe there with all of those rattlesnakes and scorpions all over the place?

I lived in Arizona for 50 years and never saw one rattlesnake or scorpion.

I've lived in Florida for ten years now and people like you seem to think that Florida is going to hell in a hand basket

Even though I have been to the Waffle House in this story (it is 35 miles away in the big city), I don't notice crime any worse here than in another places.

We live in the country, but most big cities have crime like this story. Shootings, robberies, drugs, etc.

I wouldn't pin it just on Florida. Ever hear of Chicago? Baltimore? Detroit? Oakland? Miami?

I think it is a sign of the times. Breakdown of morals, families, religion, behavior.

I don't see it affecting me here on my farm. But then, that's why I moved out of the city and to a rural area to escape the violence. I managed to do that but the violence is still in society. Just not out here on the farm.

I wouldn't agree about it avalanching into hell here. But violence is pervasive in the country's urban culture and not just in Florida.