Number23 said:

imago said:

I'm just asking this as a general question.

I keep hearing people talking about "back in the day" you didn't have to worry about guns, rioting, etc. etc.

But I'm wondering if these folks are reading the same history books as I'm reading.

What is your general opinion. Is the world a more dangerous place now? And why?

How do you define danger? A Darwinian hangover steering you to exist in perpetual fear of your life and protect your gene pool? Allowing forces you have no control over control you? Existing in continual terror of being sacrificed to a Sun God or burnt at the stake for having a black cat or being knocked down by a shit car? Sleeping with one eye open incase your children crack open your skull and eat your brain raw to inherit your knowledge? It depends what you mean by danger. I don't think guns changed anything, the brain has to tell the finger to pull the trigger. I kinda think people have always lived in fear of the known. The unknowns collect themselves in a kind of subconcious cultural clunge which evolves as societal humour to form bonds. The cliche that everything changes and nothing changes - in regards to human behaviour - holds true to me. There's always been cunts and will always be cunts. If there was a sticker big enough to be seen from space, they should stick it to Russia or somewhere with FULL OF CUNTS written on it. But meterorites can't read, thank fuck.

There is no more unkown. Only cunts that choose to pretend they don't know.

And guns changed everything. I'm not sure how you could think otherwise.