In America the car, the gun, the factory, all have more rights than you do.
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If you thought nothing could be worse than losing a child, two days after Legend was killed, the county district attorney charged the Jenkinses with involuntary manslaughter and persuaded a judge to set bail at $1.5 million for each of them.
In America, a car hits your kid and the car can't be at fault. Your kid gets shot by a gun, the gun owner can't really be blamed. The pattern is clear - humans and their lives are the least important part of American culture. The car, the gun, the industrial plan poisoning your water, they have more rights than you.
Did you drink poisoned water, the power plant is going to sue you for defamation when you speak up. Got shot by a gun with an improper safety? The companies that make guns have no role in that. One of the 40,000 people a year killed by a car crash? The cars have no role in that, the drivers are not at fault when they hit a pedestrian. You should know better than to walk in America.
Gaston County District Attorney Travis Page has not explained why he brought such high charges, and his office did not respond to several email and telephone messages I left to request comment.
The prosecutor’s office showed more leniency in April, when a 10-year-old Gaston County girl was shot by another child with a gun the girl’s father allegedly left unsecured. Intentionally bringing a potential harm into your home seems worse than letting your children take a walk, but the father in this case is free on $50,000 bond to face felony child abuse charges.
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in the United States, average is bleak, three times worse than in the rest of the developed world. The death toll of Americans on foot rose by 58 percent in the decade leading up to 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, from 4,911 souls annually to 7,768.
The shift in responsibility robs people of their lives and destroys our lives in a broader way, it makes us more afraid, more worried about going out, less healthy. It changes how children grow up in America.
“The very act of raising children as we ourselves were raised,” she warned, “may now be treated as a crime.”
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— Via Nicole Gelinas, They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They're Felons