Sorry, ain’t working.
I grew up in the south without air conditioning; I know what heat is. Yeah, I played outside in the summer with temps near 100 but I wasn’t closed up in a car. I was in the shade with a breeze blowing. Drove for years without A/C in the car. It was miserable with windows down and moving-unbearable with the windows up.
I’m not sure where you get that the mother was right out there when a stranger approached her kids. The article states that Elliott approached the mother as she exited the store. You have no way of knowing if Elliott had found the kids 30 seconds before or 10 minutes before. You’re assuming.
I err on the side of the child. Since 1998, an average of 37 children have died in the United States after being left in or becoming trapped in a hot vehicle. I’d rather have them alive than dead. And I changed my mind-you’re DUMBER than she is.
“I err on the side of the child.”
Nope you err on the side of the state taking children from parents. That is to coin a phrase hardly the spirit of liberty.
I certainly know broadly the data on children dying in cars, though I am surprised it is as few as 37 per year on average and I wonder how many of those are cases of a parent forgetting it was their day to take the kid to day care or school bus drivers failing to get all the kids off the bus. In the current case it appears to me the mother had her eye on the situation though while not ideal or even good, was maybe the best she could do that one day.
So I still err on the side of a parent working and trying to take care of their kids and not be a burden on the rest of us. That is the spirit of liberty, not a nannie calling for nannie state intervention whenever someone does not do things the way they would do it.