Gen Xers and boomers open up about whether life was really safer when they were young

Gen Xers and boomers open up about whether life was really safer when they were young.

The good old days may not have been as rosy as those rose-colored glasses make them appear.

"My grandmother had 7 children on a t Tuesday in 1936 . By saturday she had one living child so..." "It was typhus for my great grandparents. Lost kids 3 of 5 in one week in Chicago .".

"Cars were very unsafe back then. No crumple zones, no collapsible steering columns, lots of angular metal hard surfaces, no anti-lock brakes" "There's more than a little survivor bias at play when you hear stuff like 'we played with lawn darts and we're fine' or 'we didn't have life-threatening allergies like today ' " All the ' snowflake' safety measures we have in place today are thanks to previous generations being idiots and what NOT to do.".

"I grew up in a very safe small town, where everyone assumed bad things didn't happen, but the internet age has shown us that not only do bad things happen everywhere, but they always did." "The reason everyone feels less safe today is because of our news. 24 hours/7 days a week of it and good news doesn't sell," he says.

Violent crime in the US peaked in 1992 .