I’m always armed ... because I’m old enough to consider ridding the society of murderous scum is a civic duty when confronted. We didn’t lock our doors in the fifties because soceity had so many with that same belief back then ... returning vets seem to see the world differently than handout Harrys and Harriets.
“We didn’t lock our doors in the fifties because soceity had so many with that same belief back then ... returning vets seem to see the world differently than handout Harrys and Harriets.”
Interesting - never thought of it like that, I bet that was a huge part of the fifties attitude. Also, the entire nation had felt the effects of the war with rationing, blackouts of the cities along the coasts, etc. Not like now, where I imagine 47% of the people think Obama got us out of Afghanistan already and the war is over.
I remember the first time I started locking the front door. It was in the early 1960s and we were living in west St. Louis in an upper class neighborhood for one year, and someone had walked in a neighbor doctor's home whose front door was not locked, looking for drugs. That was one street over from us, and I started locking the front door when I was home which was all the time as I didn't work outside the home that year. My front door has been locked since then.
I also remember when no one locked their car and likely the keys were in it, too. I don't remember when I started locking the car. We have gone from that era to now when we lock ourselves in, have burglar alarms on windows, have anti-kick device on front door and keep a loaded gun close. What will be next on this road to destruction?