Moral of the story: When people read too many milk cartons, and trust too much of the media-generated fears that the media need to sell more milk and other goods, such people turn into irrational fearful hand-wringers looking for the government to save them.
Their plan is working on you.
Congratulations. Your emotions have overridden your reason, and people like you will undoubtedly sell out their (and my) liberty for some perceived safety.
Flame away.
Flame you?
I want to buy you a drink! :-)
No flame here.
Every year my wife and I put out our Halloween display for the kids. It's an animatronic witch's cauldron filled with candy, glowing lights, and a stir stick that moves on its own. The kids really love it (although it tends to freak the littler ones a bit).
We've had this out for the past 5 or 6 years, and I've noticed that every couple of years or so the media will get out their trusty "deadly Halloween candy" squeeze bag and get to work. We've all heard it before--"Bring your kid's candy down to the hospital to get it x-rayed; Better safe than sorry, even though it's never happened in this town before; etc." It's pretty effective in killing the house-to-house candy-collectors, and it's a damn shame.
It's not the kids that believe in the Boogey Man--it's the parents.