Posted on 11/30/2004 1:29:36 PM PST by Tarpaulin
I recall a couple of video poker playing stories that were pretty similiar too.
I am not criticizing your posting of the article, but it is a little unsettling that so many tragedies become national stories.
And legalizing it will prevent such needless tragedies from happening, and if they do, the perpetrators will go through the court system and pay for their...mistake or crime, depending...oddly like it is now only with The Big G seal of approval and lotsa money in the treasury - from the drug taxes - to pay for their trials and sentences and reparations if neceessary.
This wouldnt have been a crime if they would have intentionally murdered this child while it was still in it mother.
FUBAR all the way around.
Exactly. Beating a child to death is against the law, downing kids is against the law, locking them in baking cars, chopping their limbs off, starving them - it's all against the law and it happens anyway.
Laws don't prevent these crimes but justice can punish them.
To me this is nothing more than a nanny state... 
...story. In the end the reason why the infant died is really inconsequential...it's still dead either way and the parents are to solely to blame, not the drugs they were using.
N.C. boy dies in hot car while mother plays video poker
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You can’t legislate away idiots.
To me this is an obvious hit piece in an obvious attempt to portray drugs as "The Big Bad Wolf" instead of placing the blame squarely upon the poor excuses for human beings that actually are responsible for their actions which directly caused the child's death.
And you can look in this very thread for the victimless crime argument when it is actually a red herring because, as you say, kids are killed every day in a variety of ways and they never make the news.
Stake one out in spreadeagle position on ground....chain other on bottom of wrecking ball....raise wrecking ball....let wrecking ball drop.....SPLAT
The first punishment should be sterilization for both, lest they breed again with themselves or others, which would be a definite probability. The second punishment should be life in prison for both of them. That should break them of their drug habit.
How do these people get $500.00 to blow in three days like that? Welfare?
My my, what a fitting description of togetherness for these two.
The most effective law is capital punishment; unfortunately, I don't think they'll be eligible . . . yet.
Trainspotting.
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