>Yes, and that quote is so much BS now-a-days. Franklin never lived in a time
>where innocent people are massacred on a bus or beheaded because they're in
>some country. There is a balance between liberty and security and there are
>times to give up some of one or the other to make the balance work.
>Personally, I like life over death.
I don't think they had buses in Franklin's time period. But more
seriously, I think killing was just as or more rampant then; especially
compared to America today.
Franklin lived, according to google, from 1706-1790. During that period
some of, but not all, the conflicts that waged were: Seven Years War,
American Revolution, Franco-American War, and your random acts of violence
to secure food. You can't tell me the world, as a whole, was less violent
then.
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