[Dog Gone]

Whats worse, for a cghild to be zapped with a stun gun or for a child to be sold between inmates for a pack of cigarettes?

Those aren't the only two choices a parent has to choose from.

Some kids are bad. Maybe it's genetic, I don't know, but they're just bad. They require special handling. Discipline is going to be required, probably along with rewards for good behavior.

But I doubt we'll ever hear someone credit repeated use of a stun gun by a parent as the reason why they're a model citizen today.

[philetus]

"But I doubt we'll ever hear someone credit repeated use of a stun gun by a parent as the reason why they're a model citizen today."

I doubt it too.Like I said, I would have submitted to the stun gun over the switch.

Some kids are bad. Maybe it's genetic, I don't know, but they're just bad. They require special handling. Discipline is going to be required, probably along with rewards for good behavior.

How would you "special handle them?

On the afternoon of February 12, 1993, in a shopping center in Merseyside (in northwestern England, just outside of Liverpool), two ten-year-olds took two-year-old James Bulger by the hand -- his mother had turned his back on him for just a few minutes to buy some meat -- and led him away (as a security camera filmed them). A number of people saw the three boys walking and failed to intervene, despite the fact that James appeared to have been in distress and injured: the tabloids later referred to them as "The Liverpool 38".

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson made James walk about 2½ mi. before beating him to death.