Butch Hatfield fired this volley in
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There was a time in this country when most men would have acted just
like I did. When I was kid the adult men were all WWII vets and those
guys put up with no ****. Consequently we had little crime in our
neighborhood. A lot of fist fights but little crime. In that exact
same neighborhood we now have the opposite. No fist fights but a ****
load of bull**** crime and good men that do nothing. They have all the
excuses down about having kids, fearing lawsuits and guns but all this
is simply caving into cowardice.


Amen! Of the fifty or so kids my age in high school, only TWO ever got
in trouble. One for running 'shine', and another for beating up his mom.

We had LOTs of fistfights (which often the PhysEd coach refereed, and
nobody went on detention, they just got a little beat up!), and almost NO
violent crimes -- not just among the teens, but in the whole community.

Everybody says now, "Don't get involved." Hell! I was involved since
13. I was a Boy Scout when it was looked on as 'not cool'. I
volunteered for military service when everyone else was protesting the
war in Viet Nam. And I did NOT do it because I was 'gung ho', or wanted
to be in firefights. I did NOT want to be in firefights. I didn't want
to go to war. But serving in the military was part of us.

It was something you did as a rite of passage.

We could use a little more of that type of life.

Lloyd