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O-uknow

Do you feel as comfortable driving across the continental U.S as you would have ten years ago?

Are politics, economics and crime factors?

Posted - January 28, 2017
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  • Sure! I just drive something else now! 
      January 28, 2017 7:19 AM MST
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  • 5614
    With a Nazi emblem I can see how you might have some trouble.
      January 28, 2017 7:24 AM MST
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  • Not a Nazi emblem! It's the standard German cross. The swastika was the nazi sign.
      January 28, 2017 7:32 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Hopefully everyone knows the difference on the byways and highways you would be traveling ;)
    If they don't that's why you have the armor. This post was edited by O-uknow at January 28, 2017 7:47 AM MST
      January 28, 2017 7:46 AM MST
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  • 99% of people know the difference.
      January 28, 2017 7:49 AM MST
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  • 34286
    German but not Nazi.  Nazi had the swatica and the iron cross with the flared out points. 
      January 28, 2017 7:36 AM MST
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  • Exactly! Big difference.
      January 28, 2017 7:41 AM MST
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  • The Iron Cross isn't really a  Nazi Symbol either.   The Iron cross was used long before the Nazis and still is.  The Balkenkreuz isn't as old as the Iron Cross and was adopted by Germany in WW1 because it was easier to recognize on bi-plane wings and tanks.  The Nazi's restored the balkenkreuz during WW2.
    Even today German armed forces use an Iron Cross with bordering similar the balkenkreuz.
      January 28, 2017 7:53 AM MST
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  • That they do! Good job Glis! If my memory is right? It's actually the Maltese Cross.
      January 28, 2017 8:01 AM MST
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  • Nope.  That's just what people started calling it because of Iron cross having a false nazi imagery.  The real Maltese Cross is way different.  It's the one that looks like four arrowheads with their points in the middle.
    The Iron cross comes from the Prussian military and is based on the Cross Patee. Strictly speaking the  Iron Cross is only the military award, not the cross  symbol itself. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 30, 2017 9:27 PM MST
      January 28, 2017 8:06 AM MST
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  • Excellent! You're the WW1 buff and I'm the WW2 buff. 
      January 28, 2017 8:13 AM MST
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  • I'm really into the history of both of them.  WW1 is just a little more interesting to me.  Partially because it lees talked about, largely because WW1 was the big game changer in Global politics and in tactical warfare. So much out with old and in with the new happened in every facet in those 4 years
      January 28, 2017 8:18 AM MST
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  • Since I beta test and help develop WW2 games for Slitherine? I really know all the battles,tactics and equipment.
      January 28, 2017 8:22 AM MST
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  • Ahh gotcha.
      January 28, 2017 8:30 AM MST
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  • www.slitherine.com
      January 28, 2017 8:40 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Combat them with truths. It is their weakness ;)
      January 28, 2017 8:17 PM MST
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  • 34286
    I have no fear driving cross country. I would not drive through areas of the country that are dangerous such a E St Louis or bad side of Chicago or others.... that is stupid.
      January 28, 2017 7:39 AM MST
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  • I don't have any issues with it...I'll be doing it soon!
      January 28, 2017 7:41 AM MST
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  • 283
    I have been driving across the eastern half of the country for the last 20 years. I just didn't have the time to drive west and just flew. That is changing this year. We have already started shopping around for an RV. The first cross country trip will probably next year or maybe late in the year if we stay south.
      January 28, 2017 7:47 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Good luck to you and may God bless.
      January 28, 2017 8:45 PM MST
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  • No fear driving across country.   It's not like you have to drive through Chicago projects, Detroit slums, deliverence style hillbilly towns, and Camden ghetto to go across country.
      January 28, 2017 7:55 AM MST
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  • I'd feel just as comfortable; I'll proudly display my "U.S. Out of Everywhere" bumper sticker :P This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 28, 2017 9:58 AM MST
      January 28, 2017 9:58 AM MST
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  • 7792
    I felt safer 30 years ago. Certainly not in the present.
      January 28, 2017 10:01 AM MST
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  • 3934
    Once again, your "feelings" do not necessarily congrue with measurable reality.

    30 years ago  = 1987

    Total US crime rate per 100k people in 1987 -->  5,550

    Total US crime rate per 100k people in 2016 --> 2,870

    So, given that overall crime is down about 50%, why do you feel less safe?
      January 28, 2017 4:12 PM MST
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