It is indeed objectively safer to live in America than any time in the past 5 decades. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/14/theres-never-

It is indeed objectively safer to live in America than any time in the past 5 decades. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/14/theres-never-been-a-safer-time-to-be-a-kid-in-america/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/14/t... The question, of course, is whether or not that safety is attributable to our collective paranoia, or in spite of it.