"I think we'd get better value from keeping kids away from drugs, guns, and irresponsible parents.
So what...Rapists rape, murderers murder, drugs destroy, irresponsible parents neglect. Lovers have sex, military forces provide security, medicines heal, parents guide and raise children. The "feds" are not going to protect children from abuses in these areas by a federal policy that establishes responsibility and liability. We, however, give protective services, and responsible organizations some teeth to act on behalf of children who are in harms way by establishing policy and regulations.
"If the feds were to go into the business of protecting kids, I think we'd get better value from keeping kids away from drugs, guns, and irresponsible parents."
When you get defensive enough to exaggerate, excuse, and distract attention from the problem; I start to wonder if there is an agenda behind it. If you see risks that involve harm to children with unregulated participation, then say so. If you see these risks then why are you so dismissive about them?
Every body in our society is "in the business" of protecting kids. The need to deal with one potentially devastating entity (guns) does not erase the need to deal with others. |
