Tanypteryx writes:
I think you are looking through rose colored glasses and where you grew up may have been insulated from what some of us saw growing up.
I graduated from high school in 1965 and remember a lot of civil unrest in the 50s through the 70s. I remember college students being shot for protesting, and there was a lot more than the war in Nam being rebelled against, post WWII.
My mother's side of my family were all ranchers and they all locked their doors at night and when they were not at home. All the families I knew growing up locked their doors and vehicles. Burglars didn't suddenly pop into existence in 1997 or something. I think it's a rural myth that "nobody locked their doors back in the old days."
One thing we didn't have here in the U.S. is more guns than citizens or nearly as many citizens.
Maybe I was insulated from the problems. I moved all over Alberta as a kid but did all of my high school in Medicine Hat graduating in 1961. I think that the late fifties were quite different than even the late 60's, with the Viet Nam protests.
Where I was people didn't really worry much about locking things up. There was nobody living on the streets and very little crime.
I certainly wouldn't say that nobody locked their doors but it wasn't at all unusual.
My grandfather was a rancher in the 30's and like many of the other farms in the area he had a sign on the front gate for those wandering around looking for work could go to the house and get something to eat even if no one was home.
He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
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