Whenever I flew over Spain, going in for landing, I could always see a myriad of small, blue backyard pools growing into vision. THOUSANDS
I'd guess 70-80% of all suburban homes in Spain has that pool.
Not once did I see a kid floating dead in them. Not once!
How dare you present this argument? You made that up or something. I want to make the world safer, so shut the hell up and let me ban things.
Did you see Penn and Teller's episode about people being dangerous? Their point was obviously the opposite, that when you remove the tiny percentage of any population thats a murderer, violent, etc, you end up with a HUGE majority of decent people.
They showed an example of a mother who sent her 10 year old kid on the NY-metro, to school.
I thought about that, and as counter-intuitive as it seems - who in their right mind will mug or attack a 10 year old!? I mean - anything can happen, to anybody, statistically, but odds wise, you're probably MORE likely being mugged if you are an adult working man, than if you are a little kid with a backpack.
Imagine the loss of street cred, you show up to your homies, with a red and yellow backpack that you stole from a crying child 
Exactly. That episode wasn't what I had in mind, but that's a perfect example of my point of view. I think this
attitude is caused by several things. Bored people, ignorance, dependence on the state, and irrational fear. The general desire is a safer society, and that's a good thing. The product of this approach though? Meh, not so good.
