re: Letting kids walk to/from school. Is the world really that much more unsafe?

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Statistically, you were probably safer after Johnny got nabbed.

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Statistically, my parents didn’t GAF. One less mouth to feed was probably their attitude.

I read all this and laugh.

The only public school I went to was in Virginia

Then we moved from Langley (CIA) to Edward’s.

Edward’s AFB no fences. The idiots were on the other side of mountain range.

Then we moved to Tokyo and lived on Little America (that’s the area surrounded by barbed wire and protected by guards with guns.)

In Japan, we got on trains and buses going wherever we wanted and didn’t think about anyone grabbing us.

Other than Football and baseball all at other bases, I spent as much time as we could, exploring Japan. I was always amazed that some people never left the base in four years.

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but maybe it's because when I was 14 years old and sitting on the sidewalk of a very busy street uptown in broad daylight waiting for the school bus, some fat frick parked his car near me and pretended to read the newspaper until he full on started jerking off while staring at me.

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ILurkThereforeIAm

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name checks out

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they have a parking lot?

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They did at the time (not sure about now) but it was small so unless you got there real early you'd have to hunt for parking on the street.

Our kids rode bikes to school until they started playing instruments. Middle and elemmentary school is attached to neighborhood. Surprisingly few bike or ride. I don't know how so many parents have the time to sit in carpool lines every am&pm.

that series is insane

also highly recommend 'nosedive' and 'metal head' episodes.

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When I was a kid we walked to school.
We rode our bikes miles away where our parents had no idea where we were.
We played outside without "eyes on" direct supervision by an adult.

Is the world really that much more unsafe or are people unreasonably paranoid?

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In an increasing amount, yes. Societal norms have deteriorated for decades, this has now sped up thanks to some combination of the internet (news travels farther and faster, as well as feeds copycatting and helps marginalized groups congregate and thus feel more emboldened), more reliance on government social programs to support increasing lifestyles and the stronger addictive aspects of many recreational drugs.

We can take Waffle House fights as an example. Thirty years ago you never heard about them. Ever. You might hear of one every couple of months at some local late-night eatery after the clubs closed, but those usually had police presence (due to so many people coming in drunk), but it wasn't a theme. Today a quick youtube search turns up hundreds loaded up, the problem is so bad that some locations no longer allow anything but take-out after dark.

The more things like that happen, the more accepted they become through people becoming desensitized to it.

Another is the push for normalizing the psychological one aspect of the condition of body image dysphoria (ie: "trannies") by trying to position it as natural. Thirty years ago, a man dressing as a woman was a point of comedy absurdism (see: SNL's "It's Pat!" skits), today supporters are trying to get it covered under discrimination law (see: the SNL actress who played "Pat" publicly regretting the character). This also extends to the attempt to push a soft acceptance of pedophile trannies (whether their condition plays into their being pedos or they are just using trannies for cover) through trying to classify anyone against it as being some sort of "phobe" or "ist".

This is the true "diversity" the fringe Left is pushing, whether any given individual understands that or not.

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At my school, we were basically locked on school grounds from the morning bell to the afternoon bell.

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You can thank lawyers… all them old tv shows and movies showed kids leaving campus for lunch lol… I got to high school and was disappointed

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People are unreasonably paranoid.

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Are they?

When I lived in SoCal as a kid in the late 70’s. the Son of Sam was on TV in the summer of 77 pretty much until he was caught. He terrified me. There was just something about him that made me think a monster was ready to jump out of the bushes and grab me at any moment. My dad tried to reassure me by emphasizing that the SoS was in New York and we’re in SoCal, and I had nothing to worry about. It wasn't until decades later that FBI and LAPD did an analysis of all the cold-cases from the area and realized that many were connected. Eventually they put together that, not only did SoCal have a serial killer or two at this time, but that they had over a Dozen operating from 77-79. Many were never caught. I was worried about the Son of Sam 3k miles away when I had a dozen super predators in my own back yard. Criminologists estimate that there may be hundreds of serial killers in the US thst are never caught. We’re only aware of the flashy ones that are undisciplined and crave publicity.

Parents have that sense of dread for a good reason.