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You all had better get moving to the cities where you can raise a decent family.
No way! I need space and my neighbors as far away as possible. A 1/4 acre lot is the smallest I can deal with.
You all had better get moving to the cities where you can raise a decent family.
You really cannot start at the 1960s and compare crime rates as the 60s was a time of crazy upheaval and silliness from the Black Panthers to the stinky hippies. You have to start at 1930 or 1940 to see a HUGE difference from today---and that is considering that there was the Great Depression that people lived through but they weren't running around killing and stealing from each other at the rates we are today. With our current levels of standards, such a Great Depression today would lead to chaos and anarchy in the streets.We don't have to speculate or rely on antidotal evidence when we are discussing crime rates in the US. The internet is full of information about this subject. The rates of most kinds of crimes have greatly increased (per 100,000 persons) since the fifties and sixties when I was a child. But they have also generally decreased from their levels thirty years ago.
Beware of the information in the following link, though. It is raw data. It doesn't account for differing reporting rates observed throughout the fifty years covered. For example, forcible rape was very under reported in 1960 as compared to today. Another problem of underreporting exists in juvenile crime. In 1960 many youthful offenders were not charged or prosecuted. Nowadays, if a kid gets into a schoolyard fight, the school Resource Officer swears out assault warrants on everyone involved and they all end up adding to the US violent crime numbers.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
AF
It seems surprising that there is so much drug making and dealing in the rural and small town areas.
However I have heard some interesting interviews where people like to have isolated rural properties to do meth cooking and other activities.
As to use and dealing a lot of kids are simply saying that small town life is too boring so they engage in drug use to spice up their lives.
You really cannot start at the 1960s and compare crime rates as the 60s was a time of crazy upheaval and silliness from the Black Panthers to the stinky hippies. You have to start at 1930 or 1940 to see a HUGE difference from today---and that is considering that there was the Great Depression that people lived through but they weren't running around killing and stealing from each other at the rates we are today. With our current levels of standards, such a Great Depression today would lead to chaos and anarchy in the streets.
If you live in a rural place and you don't have a meth problem, meth is coming.
I remember the sixties...and by the late sixties and early seventies, I was a proud stinky hippie. But the stinky hippies I knew weren't a very criminal group...outside of violating Chapter 90 from time to time. And there was a time that I could name all seven Black Panters that ever actually existed. But I also seem to remember reading that our nation experienced some amount of violent crime during the depression era.
AF
5 years ago I had very little idea what meth was; I knew it was a drug but it hadn't hit my main consciousnesses. When we went cross country on a trip in 2009, we saw billboards in Montana which showed horrid pictures of meth addicts and had things like: "Scraping all the skin off your arms sounds like a bad idea... unless you're on meth." About a year later, they started to regulate pseudoephedrine at pharmacies in my state. The past couple of years there were occasional reports; mainly arrests. So far this year, there have been 6 meth explosions in my county, most have been in rural/suburban homes. Meth has been linked to a rising number of violent crimes ranging from home invasions to shootings. We've been told repeatedly on public service announcements how to spot a meth lab in our neighbor's home. Right now, the meth labs have gone mobile; there's been one explosion in a mobile lab this year. It's been all over the news lately how to spot a mobile lab. It's like a progressive disease.
If you live in a rural place and you don't have a meth problem, meth is coming.
Meth is so common here it's passe. The hot new thing now is "bath salts," which cause skinny buggy-eyed teenagers to go berserk, beat small animals to death in the street, and wreck hospital emergency rooms when they're subdued and brought in to be forcibly treated.
As to religion - Christianity's difficulties lie with the nature of so many different denominations but their actions are all lumped together.
It is not supposed to be an in your face type of thing.
One may share their faith but it needs to be more of a "Oh by the way I am a Christian and if you ever have any questions feel free to ask" type of thing. I have seen a lot of in your face stuff going both ways.
I cannot believe what these kids are coming up with just to get high. What are they missing in their lives that they must resort to this? That, ladies and gentleman, is the crux of the problem.
I cannot believe what these kids are coming up with just to get high. What are they missing in their lives that they must resort to this? That, ladies and gentleman, is the crux of the problem.
The Black Panthers caused quite a ruckus out here. I am sure you were insulated from it there.
I cannot believe what these kids are coming up with just to get high. What are they missing in their lives that they must resort to this? That, ladies and gentleman, is the crux of the problem.
Their parents got high, and it was "cool", and they make a big joke out of it now, so why shouldn't they do it too?
No I wasn't! When I was ten, one of them things came out of the woods back of our house. He damn near clawed our dog to death and he ate four of our chickens!!
AF
Well...actually nobody has mentioned our youth's latest and perhaps most bizarre method of getting high. Girls in our local high school are soaking tampons in vodka and inserting them just before they go to school. I understand it gives them a pleasant little buzz until lunch...whereupon they soak and repeat.
No, Mildred...I am not kidding.
AF
Well...actually nobody has mentioned our youth's latest and perhaps most bizarre method of getting high. Girls in our local high school are soaking tampons in vodka and inserting them just before they go to school. I understand it gives them a pleasant little buzz until lunch...whereupon they soak and repeat.
No, Mildred...I am not kidding.
AF