So pissed , my e-mail got hacked.

[Fester]

  All that you say is true,All that DID happen,AND more I'm sure, But as a kid  I don't remember  my mother worrying  if some pervert was going to pull me into a car and mutalate me, I don't remember a curfew on Halloween, or morons sticking razors in our candy, Kids didn't go to their schools and pull out automatic weapons shooting everyone in site, where I lived girls did'nt get pregnant at 12,13,or even 17. And it's ODD,but there wasn't a drug problem among kid's when I was young. I could go on and on, But Whats the point? ALL generations have problems, All I'm trying to say is growing up in the 60s was a wonderful thing.

Where I grew up in the 1960s, we were warned about strangers trying kidnap us.  There was a curfew on Halloween and our parents checked all the Halloween loot for signs of tampering.  We had the rumors of razor blades in apples needles in candy bars; and once there was even a rumor of LSD-laced candy.  In my junior high(c1968) there were at least three girls left school because of preganacy.  Pot and even acid was readily available.  We did not have shootings, but there were plenty of stabbings and beatings. Bicycle chains switchblades were the weapons of choice.   And where did I grow up?
Salt Lake City: about as conservative and white-bread a place that ever existed.

My point?  Selective memory is a tricky thing.

"We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control."
Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Plato, 4th Century BC

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[Terry]

Where I grew up in the 1960s, we were warned about strangers trying kidnap us.  There was a curfew on Halloween and our parents checked all the Halloween loot for signs of tampering.  We had the rumors of razor blades in apples needles in candy bars; and once there was even a rumor of LSD-laced candy.  In my junior high(c1968) there were at least three girls left school because of preganacy.  Pot and even acid was readily available.  We did not have shootings, but there were plenty of stabbings and beatings. Bicycle chains switchblades were the weapons of choice.   And where did I grow up?
Salt Lake City: about as conservative and white-bread a place that ever existed.

My point?  Selective memory is a tricky thing.

"We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control."
Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Plato, 4th Century BC

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

If it was THAt bad THEN,I don't think I'll be going to Salt Lake any time soon. Sorry to hear you lived in such a bad place,But Cleveland wasn't like that in the early 60s.It's not a case of " selective Memory", It's Fact. I grew up there.

[CreepysFan]

     

  The late 60's early 70's in Columbia, South Carolina was pretty cool as a kid, we went Trick-n-treating by ourselves without any worry.  Never found any razors or needles in my candy.  Walked to school and played in the woods without being mutilated.  But pot was around, and in our elementary school (we used to joke about the city being named Columbia) .  Maybe California had Manson and the Zodiak, but the only serial killer we ever had was in the early 1800's.   The same problems were likely all around us, but we were too busy having fun to worry about them.  Best of all growing up in South Carolina, no dangerous psycho mothers trying to kill all the fun.  I loved being a kid in the late 60's and early 70's.  I agree with Terry, it was a wonderful time.

[UndeadLegend]

     

  The late 60's early 70's in Columbia, South Carolina was pretty cool as a kid, we went Trick-n-treating by ourselves without any worry.  Never found any razors or needles in my candy.  Walked to school and played in the woods without being mutilated.  But pot was around, and in our elementary school (we used to joke about the city being named Columbia) .  Maybe California had Manson and the Zodiak, but the only serial killer we ever had was in the early 1800's.   The same problems were likely all around us, but we were too busy having fun to worry about them.  Best of all growing up in South Carolina, no dangerous psycho mothers trying to kill all the fun.  I loved being a kid in the late 60's and early 70's.  I agree with Terry, it was a wonderful time.

My mother grew up around there around that time, but it was in Greenville. She said it was a great time to be a kid, and that the 80s were a great time to be young!

[Scatter]

"We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control."
Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Plato, 4th Century BC

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Didn't the societies cited both collapse?? 

[Fester]

Didn't the societies cited both collapse?? 

Yes, but they took several centuries to do so.  Plato was complaining about the imminent demise of civilization at the same time the Athenians were developing democracy.  The period is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age" of Greece.   Egypt also collapsed as a society but it didn't really take place for another three thousand years.  Even then, Egypt did not really collapse.  They just got taken over by the Greeks.  At the time of the Egyptian's complaint, the greatest Egyptian achievements had not yet happened.

My point is: we all have a tendency to think the past was a lot better than the present.  When I was a kid, my parents always said how much better life was when they grew up (Great Depression and World War II).  My Grandparents were always complaining about the hippies and juvenile delinquents.  I find myself bothered by the travails of modern life and sometimes find myself thinking how great life was when I was a kid.

[Dr. Madd]

Maybe very important ones.

All of them. Every Citizen is important.

[UndeadLegend]

All of them. Every Citizen is important.

From your avatar and that post, I can tell you mean justice!

[CreepysFan]

From your avatar and that post, I can tell you mean justice!

 

Dr. Madd is someone to definitely have in your corner watching your back.  He's got more weapons than a small country. 

[Dr. Madd]

The next piece on my agenda, firearms-wise is a Russian Nagant Revolver.  A funny story, off-topic, but funny. We went to a gunshop a couple of weeks back, and a guy there collects militaria and had in his possession a PPSH- Russian Submachine gun, made around the same time as the Mosin-Nagant rifle you see in my avatar. While I had my wife taking my pic holding it, My two-year old daughter was standing by her mother- my wife (Sad when you have to clarify in this day and age)- And suddenly she begins tugging on my wife's shirt-tail and pointing excitedly- Into a glass display full of Derringer pocket pistols. She was pointing to one in particular.. This one-



My mother says its because she saw those as her size.

[Moonshadow]

This just happened to my Yahoo account too. So if you see an email from me trying to get you to click on a link...don't.