Imagine if you will a law that was passed that no longer made it required that parents force their children to wear helmets when riding wheeled conveyances. If you wish, you can protect your child, but it is no longer mandatory and instead, you had the freedom to choose to ensure your child's safety as you saw fit.
Would this lead make any sense?
Lawmakers passed a bill that would force parents to discontinue efforts to protect their children from bicycle accidents was passed today...
No. Any why not? Because nobody would force parents to NOT take care of their children, it only is so that people can make their own decisions.
So, imagine my "surprise" when I read this paragraph about someone trying to pass a law that expanded freedom as if it forced people to be unsafe
A bill that would have forced local communities to discontinue efforts to protect children from gun accidents got shot down during a hearing in a Senate committee on Monday.
Emphasis mine. Think about it. If I were to say to you "you can decide for yourself if you'd like the salad or a greasy burger", that doesn't mean I'm forcing you to make an unhealthy choice for lunch.
It's a sad state of affairs when the whole concept of freedom is now openly disdained and writers like Steven K. Paulson consider giving people a choice the same as putting a gun to their head. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Big Mac is a Whopper.
Then we have a police chief, a man who makes his money by ensuring you have to rely on him for the illusion of keeping you safe, coming out with this nugget.
Olson said laws requiring safety locks of guns are not an infringement on gun rights. "It's not some sort of a ban on weapons, but it's for protection of citizens," Olson told lawmakers.
Olson said laws requiring safety locks of guns are not an infringement on gun rights.
"It's not some sort of a ban on weapons, but it's for protection of citizens," Olson told lawmakers.
Sinclair Lewis famously wrote "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." He couldn't be more wrong.
When fascism comes to America, it will be swaddled in bubble-wrap, carrying the populace like a helpless infant.
For the children, of course.