Shopdog wrote:

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He's well into his 70's and said
that if I were around back then I would be horrified of all the
freedoms
we've lost over the past 50 years. I remember when I was in elem.
school,
for show n tell I took 30.06 bullets, yes LIVE bullets. No one thought
anything of it. We used to take our guns to school for hunting
afterwards
across the street!
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At the end of WWII, when that 70's neighbor was maybe 10 years old,
there were less than 150 million people in the USA.

We just passed 300 million a few days ago.

The amount of land hasn't changed except when Alaska & Hawaii were
granted statehood.

That land across the street where you used to hunt, probably has
houses on it today.

The point is that more people in the same space create more demanding
conditions.

Lew