Imaginary Hitlers?

I was watching "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central network on TV on my DVR and he was talking about "imaginary Hitlers" and I was thinking about how "Safety" is imaginary too. How safe are you anyway? I realized safety is a completely subjective kind of thing. Some people are not going to feel safe under any circumstances for a variety of reasons, while other people might feel safe while their hands were tied behind them to a pole in front of a firing squad waiting to die. And everyone has the right to feel safe or unsafe under any circumstances no matter how sane or insane they might be.

However, for people like myself who grew up with people who said things like, "I'm going to kill you." and meant it. And with people who experienced like myself, boys older than me, putting a knife to my throat and telling me, "I'm going to cut your head off." And they meant it, maybe it should be understood why some of us don't trust anyone completely after an experience like that as children growing up. Yes. Some of you have had prep school lives where no one was allowed to threaten your life ever without expulsion. But, most of us grew up in public schools where our lives might be threatened one or more times a day by people. As this was pretty common when I grew up for people to threaten other people in school. It didn't really matter whether you were big or small then because someone was going to threaten your life verbally even if they didn't actually do it. For those of us who grew up like that, trusting everyone is not an option. And, when people want to take away all weapons in the U.S. they are dealing with a whole lot of people big and small who were verbally or physically (or both) abused as children and teenagers who don't completely trust anyone after being psychologically and/or physically damaged by this experience.

So, who is more realistic, the kids in the prep schools who would be expelled if they threatened anyone and so this never happens or the kids whose lives were verbally and/or physically threatened almost every day? This is something I haven't heard discussed much. Because there is upper class politeness and then there is what the rest of us dealt with growing up. And so I guess even though now my daughter goes to an expensive prep school I still am blue collar where it counts and "where the rubber meets the road" with tire smoke and burning rubber. (Blue collar expression)