>>Just to be clear though, there is not reason parents cannot exercise whatever safety rules they like for their children, or that anyone cannot choose for themselves to take whatever precautions. Good judgement and good parent actually can and do exist without government intervention or supervision.
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>like the father in Connecticut who allow his 10 year old to shoot an Uzi and kill himself or the most recent case where a youngster fed a wood chipper in got sucked in.

If the nannystate didn't exist and people were allowed to exist on their own merits, eventually you would see a smarter, stronger society (see the US through the 1950s) instead of the continuously weakening society we have in the US today.

Always pandering to the lowest common denominator moves the curve steadily towards the lowest common denominator.