it takes a village to disarm a child
Jul. 27th, 2004 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyThere was this story on the "Today" show this morning. They were interviewing some woman who videotaped a three year old boy playing with a handgun while his parents drank and took target practice.1
The thing that they never asked her, but I would have thought was obvious was, "So you saw this three year old child playing with a pistol and your first thought was to videotape it?" (Presumably to use as evidence in a neglect case.) Perhaps she feared that the drunken parents might shoot her. But to me, that action shows just as much neglect. Take the frikken gun away. I'm from West Virginia, and a lot of people criticise us for being inbred backwoods shoeless hicks, but nobody in West Virginia would have let anyone's three year old play with a gun. Period.
The thing that they never asked her, but I would have thought was obvious was, "So you saw this three year old child playing with a pistol and your first thought was to videotape it?" (Presumably to use as evidence in a neglect case.) Perhaps she feared that the drunken parents might shoot her. But to me, that action shows just as much neglect. Take the frikken gun away. I'm from West Virginia, and a lot of people criticise us for being inbred backwoods shoeless hicks, but nobody in West Virginia would have let anyone's three year old play with a gun. Period.
