I am with you on this. After all, around the founding it would have been much much easier to commit crime or terror. No real safeguards in place. Heck it was not too long ago you were able to knock on the door of the White House. Interesting that they say there is more danger now, there really is not, it is just more quickly transmitted to the masses that it has happened. I am sure President Lincoln would agree that he experienced terror as did others back then. Their life expectancy was very very low and anyone could have a gun. I say it is the same, just made more sensational.
That was my thoughts on the matter. The article is trying to make the argument that changing technology has invalidated Franklin’s principle. But although technology has transformed the world over the last couple hundred years, the nature of man has remained the same.