[P-Marlowe]

Teenagers, male and female, came to the front door of an elderly WWII Army combat veteran and his elderly wife to solicit. After opening the front door and talking to the teenagers, they knocked him down to the floor, brutally beat and kicked him until he was mortally injured, beat and kicked his wife until her ribs were broken and a lung was punctured, looted their home, and left them both for dead. The husband died, and the wife survived with permanent injuries.

Talk about a disconnect with reality. Geeze, man. Do you think a law prohibiting door to door solicitation would have prevented those violent criminals from going door to door to look for victims?

What kind of liberal logic is that?

So teens can't get work shoveling snow without forking out $500 for a permit and that is to prevent criminals from breaking in and killing people?

I really don't get your logic. That sounds like something we would read on some left wing blog.

[old and tired]

In our town, which has the permit solicitations law, teens absolutely can get work shoveling. A lot of times, I see them walking through the street with their shovels. Once the neighbors see their work on one house, those kids always have more work than they want because people shout over to do them next. They also can leaflet people’s homes at the beginning of winter - then all the old ladies have the kids’ names and numbers.