“Our society is becoming desensitized to the atrocities committed by gang members and the drugged out mentally ill.”
I suspect that if we could take everything in total, that today’s society is more benign than any in history. In the Middle Ages almost every “crime” which included stealing bread, was a capital offense. That’s because there were no prisons for the common people. Yes, there are horrible things happening all over and all the time, but there always has been. Our memory of the safe 1950s is probably because there was no social media. Newspapers often censored the details of crimes as they were too gross for breakfast. That did change with the bleeds-it-leads times, but those came later.
Having said that I carry concealed. I discovered from a neighbor whose children were playing with kids next door to me that the guy next door had an entire wall in his house of photographs of me taken with a telephoto lens. I had no idea. But suddenly my neighbor’s bizarre behavior made sense. There are crazy people out there, but they’re much the exception. Still, the world would be much safer if everyone carried a gun on their hip. The unsafe people would quickly be weeded out.
Even carrying it would be hard to respond in time if you were assaulted by 3 individuals with a bucket of gas & a lighter sneaking up behind you.
That being said, this kind of thing is like being struck by lightning. Not very likely to happen. Unless lots of nutters decide this is fun, like punching unsuspecting people on the street.
“Having said that I carry concealed. I discovered from a neighbor whose children were playing with kids next door to me that the guy next door had an entire wall in his house of photographs of me taken with a telephoto lens. I had no idea. But suddenly my neighbor’s bizarre behavior made sense. There are crazy people out there, but they’re much the exception. Still, the world would be much safer if everyone carried a gun on their hip. The unsafe people would quickly be weeded out.”
That’s creepy. The neighbor has an unhealthy fixation on you and what you do each day. Good decision to conceal carry.
All our neighbors live on 5+ acres and the tracts of land are all wooded. Our piece of property is a bit bigger so we are separated from others by plenty of land. We pretty much stay out of each other’s business which makes for good relationships. About the worst aggravation I have is when the neighbors don’t keep their dogs up and they come to my house to eat the cat food from the cats’ dish on the porch. Hubby just walks the dog home and reminds them to try to do better.
We have a long driveway and occasionally a ner-do-well, would drive down our way looking for what they could find. So, we finally installed a gate. For some reason meth-heads from out of the area think a wooded place with a long drive-way means idiots own the property. LOL! We still conceal carry around our place. You never know when a dangerous creature will show up, whether it be 2-legged or four.