Do you feel safer than you did in the 1950s?

(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)  “We are safer now than we were in the fifties.” – lady on a Facebook thread DON’T START WITH ME, MA’AM. I can count about a dozen neighbors and brethren who have been murdered in recent decades, and I’ve lived in the country almost all my life. Jefferson County, Wisconsin didn’t have one homicide in the decade of the 50s. Didn’t you hear about 55 people getting shot in Chicago alone over Labor Day, ma’am? No one is saying that the olden days were perfect, but there are factual statistics on divorce, births out of wedlock, […]