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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by rco8786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:44PM (#17221349)
Yes, accidents happen. But this is precisely the type of thinking that got us where we are today. Millions of kids playing in the forest and a few get hurt so we keep them inside now.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by watwut on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:09PM (#17221506)
Survival rates are higher now. Rates of serious injuries and deaths due to accident are lower now. Much lower. Not saying that right now is necessary the ideal equilibrum, but kids in past died of accidents and it was not unusual event. It was not mere theoretical construction that might happen to someone else.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by matte_black on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:54PM (#17221403)
Similar to how millions of kids go to school without being shot or killed yet people want to pull back as many guns as possible.
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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by rco8786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:22PM (#17222212)
I think the other ~100k deaths and injuries sustained by firearms every year might also come into play there.

The deaths you're speaking of are also not accidental.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by acct1771 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:41PM (#17221788)
With guns on all the racks in the trucks in the lot. It's a tired trope, but it's true.

This should be fun.

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