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When I was a kid we walked to school if you lived within a mile of it.  No one thought anything of walking to a friend's house without a military escort.  Most media was local, so if a kid fell down a well 2 states away we never heard about it.  Likewise with kidnappings, run aways, etc.  Then we got kids faces on milk cartons, CNN and the 24 hour news cycle, followed by the internet, etc.  Fast forward to when I would let my 2 girls walk the 1/2 mile to school by themselves in the late '90s.  I constantly had parents questioning my sanity.  Wasn't I afraid they would be abducted?  Well, no, I was not excessively afraid of that.  The odds of a child being abducted off the street in the US are about 1:700,000.  The odds of a child being hurt in a car accident are about 1:600.  So I let 'em go ahead and keep driving their kids to school and we kept doing our thing.  I'm not saying it wasn't happening, but its was blown out of all proportion by the way it was covered.  It was also warped by the coverage; most of abductions are family disputes, not random sex fiends.

The same thing is happening with the coverage of Portland.  If you had a map of Portland that was as large as my thanksgiving sized dining room table, you could cover the area of protests with a postage stamp. A few morons (a dozen, maybe?) with a collective IQ smaller than the amount of loose change in my pocket, and who will never be happy with anything, decide to do something stupid that will change nobody's mind. That's somehow a national news story.  That **** gives them more oxygen than they deserve and encourages more of the same.  I go about my business in and around Portland daily, and if the news wasn't blaring it I'd never know it even happened.

Wow, that escalated quickly.  Sorry, Paul, rant over!

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