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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
You do not need to be in a warzone to get hurt or kidnapped. Kids get swiped in any neighborhood. Sending your kids into a potentually harmful situation is just wrong. I just asked a coworker if he would send his 16 year old daughter on a 4 mile walk to school. He said NO immediately. 4 miles is a long way for a kid to walk to school IMO and as a parents opinion.
And this is ok? This make sending your kid on a 4 mile walk ok? You're more screwed than I thought. Really man, I would not send my 11 or 14 year old on a 4 mile walk. I do not care how good the neighborhood is.
Can I see some statistics on this?
Ok, but being able to prevent one possible bad outcome is what a parent should do and not shrug it off because...well 'if' 'and' or 'buts' could happen anyway.
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Build yourself a bunker, put a bed into it, and do not raise in the morning anymore. If additionally you link your cardiovascular system to a machine and have an independent generator, you should enjoy a life in maximum safety, I guess.
If somebody here would hint that due to the many accidents with firearms maybe there should be a more restrictive gun law ("
Eeeeek! Did he say gun law...?"), the outcry already would echoe from one coast of america to the other, and many would compare that to forbit car traffic due to traffic accidents hurting people.
We do not need playgrounds. We need bunkers with security personnel and barbwire and camera control around them, so that our children can play in safety.
If there would be a security concern of such a kind that you need to lock away your kids, then the problem is not parentsnot doing right that, but that the social environment that is like such a bad place does not get tackled. But the article does not seem to indicate that it is about a drug gang war district like in some Brazilian or Columbian suburbs where every week two dozen gang members shoot or stab each other. And if the school would be unaccessible by feet or bike due to too danegrous traffic - sue the city planners for having done a criminally bad job, and re-route traffic patterns to calm down the area instead of forbidding students to walk or bike.
I had a school way of almopst 4 km every day. In the middle of a big city. That'S why I used a bike - despite thousands of cars and several major traffic lines I had to pass or drive on. and in all my school years I am not aware of any student their having become victim of a traffic accident while walking or biking. But one boy from my chess club got killed. He stumbled while leaving the bus, the door closed and he was carried with the bus and slammed against an obstavle, a parked car I think. Damn public transportation...
I rest the case here. It simply is too absurd.