Re: Baseball's Safety Police

smacdo wrote:

Bob K wrote:

If you thought Congress inquiring about steroids was a waste of time...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.baseball22mar22,0,7892062.story


What always makes me laugh in situations like this is these guys who
are proposing these laws *grew up* playing baseball with no goggles,
hockey with minimal gear, no car seats, no seatbelts in cars, violence
in cartoons, playing in the streets, no warning labels on albums, and a
whole host of other things that would now seem dangerous or wrong.

Being as they are now the lawmakers, they turned out ok it would seem.
No?

We are raising a generation of wimps.


It's a cheap political tactic. Lawmakers do this sort of thing to boost their own stock. How? Because you child's safety is involved.
Picture this: Local Politician Mr Green wants to lower the school zone speed limits in town from 25 mphto 15mph. How do you go against that? If you do your opponents use it as method of attacking you. What kind of person would want drivers to go faster in a shool zone? In reality the law passes, everyone pats themselves on the back and then they look for the next issue such as drinking age, helmet laws, etc...

Bob K
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