Please explain the "stupid" part.
Is it stupid to put any photo on the net?
Is it stupid to put on a photo of a gun?
If a person who owns a gun puts a picture of it on the net, and it is possible to prove that the same person has custody of a child, is that "stupid"?
The risk to the child in the picture is no greater just because the child is pictured. Nor is the risk greater because the gun is pictured.
Does this mean that is is "stupid" for any person who owns a gun and has custody of a child to post a picture of themselves?
What is "stupid" is the notion that child protective services do not appear to operate based on "probable cause" and the necessity for a warrant swearing to the existence of that probable cause.
I don't see how any judge justifies not releasing this person immediately. Failing to do so is not only "stupid", it is tyranny.
All of the "stupid" in this case belongs to the government.
Stupid as in they will use any excuse to take your gun. Now that he has an arrest in his record goodbye any chances of ever owning a real one.
My brother predicted that they will start with trickery first. This is what he meant. Get a speeding ticket, turn in your guns. Fall behind on child support, guns gone. etc. File taxes late, by bye weapon.
This may not be sufficient to explain the "stupid part", but I'll give it a shot. I'll admit that it might have been more appropriate for me to have said that it was not a good idea to post the picture at the time he did. Anyway he didn't commit any crime and the really "stupid" part of the entire affair is the part in which he was arrested and is being held in custody for simply doing something that is not a crime by any cop's or judge's interpretation of the law.
If the young man had posted the photo before the Connecticut school shooting it would not have been stupid, However, it just seems to me that in light of the general public's incredibly emotional reaction to the school shooting it was stupid of the guy to post a picture of himself holding what would probably appear to most people to be a real gun while also holding a small child. If he had posted the photo prior to the school shooting and the unprecedented hyper-emotional reaction of the American people, most of whom have already been brainwashed to fear guns and gun owners, I doubt there would have been much, if any, outraged reaction to the poor guy's picture.
For all I know he may have a higher IQ than most rocket scientists, but I still think it was was stupid of him to post that picture while the public's overly emotional reaction to the Newtown school shooting was at it's highest point. What he did was certainly not a crime, and it is outrageous that he was arrested for doing something that is not a crime by any interpretation of Ohio's laws. On the other hand, if he actually posted the picture before the school shooting took place it wasn't stupid to do so and I'm the stupid one for not checking out that possibility.