Pet abuse registry may also protect children

Reuters via MSNBC ^ | 5/19/2011 | Barbara Goldberg

[Daffynition]

The Mafioso know/knew how to take care of things.

[CSM]

“Why do we keep building upon bad law after bad law after bad law?”

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”

Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3

[little jeremiah]

I believe this is the best commentary: "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites--in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;--in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;--in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-- Edmund Burke

[cizinec]

“Your kids carry? What state do you live in where a minor can carry, before age of majority?”

They have to be 21 to CC, obviously. However, my oldest knows what to do in case of home invasion and how to protect his younger brothers.

“Then why are we having this constant rash of priests and teachers molesting kids? We’re surrounded by this pestilence.”

Because parents gave up their parental responsibilities *and* authority and turned them over to either the state or some other group. Now we sit around in shock and say, “Oh my goodness, what happened? You mean complete strangers can’t be trusted with our kids?”

I disagree that, in the old days, parents, grandparents and other family and community members did not have to take a lot of personal responsibility in ensuring the safety of minors. Being a “helicopter grandparent,” as you put it, was and should be the standard, not the exception.

Before moving from rural environments to city environments, we focused on natural dangers, and we usually had an extended family to help. Now we shift to urban dangers, which have always been present.

This idea that we should report so-called animal abusers in registries is nothing more than fanning the flames of irresponsible oversight of children. It just gives people a false sense of security, all paid for by a brand new bureaucracy.