6 people killed in Texas campsite attack

mich800 wrote:

winnietrey wrote:
Found this interesting, from US crime statistics, in 1960, homicide rate was 5.1 per 100,000. In 2014 it was 4.5 per 100,000. Population has gone from 178 million to 318 million. So while the number of murders has gone up as our population has increased, the percent has gone down, a little bit.

So apparently the good old days were not quite as safe as we would like to remember. I include myself in that way of thinking.



And with the internet, stories that would have stayed local, now are spread all over, so may magnify how we look at this kind of thing. Before it still happened, we just never heard about it, is my guess

I have said that before. People just naturally wax nostalgic on their childhood or different period. That fact is the more things change the more they stay the same. If anything the 24 hour news cycle just draws attention to these events making it seem like the world is ending.

Guess a lot of it depends on where you grew up. Reckon that would have anything to do with it? I do, and where I grew up allows ME to "wax nostalgic" about how safe it was in and around the area I personally lived and grew up in...thats all that mattered to me as a kid, and actual memories I have.