[wideminded]

Kids used to play outside and ride all over town on their bikes. Now they stay inside and play video games, but part of the reason for this is that in most places we have to worry that someone might do something bad to our kids. When I was a kid the probability of this happening was not considered high enough that kids even had to be warned about it. We never locked our door. We used to sled down the hill into the woods head first and no one ever suggested a helmet.

[Nebr FAL owner]

As a child I & my friends would sleep outdoors in the summer time & the folks would leave the backdoor unlocked in case we had to go to the can in the middle of the night. No one even considered that a pervert might try to harm us, now if my nieces ages 7 & 11 were to ask to sleep out at night during the summer here in Omaha Ne. Yours truly would also be out in the backyard with a thermos of coffee, a starlight scope,a KABAR fighting knife & a Colt .45 auto loaded with jacketed hollow points.A truly sad development if you ask me.8^(