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KVR said
they say statistically this is the safest time to be alive, that may be true but they are still our kids and it is our job to worry about them, my daughter is 19 and is going to her first concert by herself in a couple weeks down in Portland and it is bothering the crap out of me.

It really is. We hear about this stuff all the time because there are more people than there have ever been, which increases the odds of a tragic event like this occurring - and communications being global and instant.

200 years ago, people had like eight kids because four of them were probably going to die before they became adults. A broken arm could kill you from infection. Hell, the doctor treating you for that broken arm could kill you with some whacked medicine. People died from drinking bad water, and getting the flu. Plus there were wars all the time, not the sanitized cleaned up wars you see now, but ugly, brutal wars. It's all about perspective.