“children as young as five walk or bike to school alone. If there is ice on the streets, they fall and get up again.”
You mean, like we did?
Of course, those were better days, and safer. Pervs hadn’t inundated civilization.
I am not so certain they were actually safer.
The perception of safety was much greater.
Kids are actually much safer today, because of better traffic controls, safer cars, car seats for kids, many other safety devices built into power tools, etc.
Today we are inundated by viral, sensationalist media, which program us to think we are not safe.
There were always pervs. The difference is that they never made national headlines like now.
“Of course, those were better days, and safer.”
Not really, in terms of stuff like this. We’ve got Amber Alerts, everyone has a trackable phone in their pocket, and there’s a network of cameras everywhere capturing people’s license plates. It’s much harder to kidnap a child off the street nowadays and get away with it than it was, say, 40 years ago. The 70s-80s were the peak serial killer/kidnapper heyday.
“Pervs hadn’t inundated civilization.”
And democrats were not sticking up for them. We had control of the border and if you broke the law you got punished. Funny how little things like that make a difference.