For real Eagle River mom stops daughter inches from sliding into razor blades on park slide (alaskasnewssource.com) Check any children's play equipment closely before you turn your crumb-crusher loose! Welcome to Anchorage AK - now really a 3rd world shithole.
TROONS WANT TO POISON KIDS WITH HORMONE CANDY ON HALLOWEEN Let kid be KIDS as we were (Lucky years) Troons Want to Poison Kids With Hormone Candy on Halloween
When I was a kid 70 years ago this kind of thing was around as well, and we had to be cautions a to the candy we got on Halloween as well. People are no less evil than they have ever been, and it has always been necessary to teach your children to be cautious.
Some years ago at my kids private school some SOB put a nail hammered from th back side of the slide. Found it before some kid got really hurt. There are some sick bastards in this world who need to spend eternity with satan.
When I was a kid, late 70's early 80's at Halloween time my parents had several bags of candy, mostly those bite sized candy bars. I happened to bite into one to find a needle. We found a whole in the bag and wrapper for the bar. Called the police and they took the lot of candy we had and called the store to pull everything from the shelves. I managed to get the one bar that was spiked with the needle, could only imagine what would have happened if I crammed the entire bar in my mouth at once.
It appears that we can't ban evil so let's ban everything else. We need to ban slides, nails, razorblades, candy, Halloween and hammers. It's for the children.
Gotta love a bit of opportunistic transphobic non binary bashing. Note that "SaltyCracker" (code for salty white dude) doesn't offer any evidence of trans folk actually handing out "Hormone Candy" to kiddies 'trick or treating', just that he is fear mongering, and promoting a moral panic for gullible MAGA sheep to swallow. If parents and kids need to be cautious, they should be wary of accepting candy from any randoms who may have adulterated their candy offerings with illicit recreational drugs like MDMA, PCP, DEX et al. It matters not whether the random is straight or non binary, cisgender or transgender...it is the criminal intent that matters, not the sexual preferences, or what gender the criminal identifies as...but meh....what can one expect from $h!tChute. When I was a kid...Halloween , and the practice of 'trick or treat' for lollies (aka candy) was not a thing. Unfortunately it is one of those rather silly and pointless bits of American culture which annually fills municipal landfills with not so cheap rubbish imported from PRC. I say a pox on Halloween altogether!
I don 't think Vis was having a crack at you personally, nor do I think it was criticism of your OP. 2A proponents make a similar argument used to defend gun ownership....'You can't ban evil, so ban X, Y, Z: besides more homicides are committed with household carpentry tools and kitchen utensils, so ban them too!' I think Vis was making a wry argumentum ad absurdum.
Yeah, just taking the logical progression of people doing bad stuff with inanimate objects and relating it to our society today. Before too long we won't have steak knives in the kitchen 'cause homi and sui cides. ICE engines because they pollute the environment and shorten peoples lives . cars and trucks because they can be used as battering rams. the list goes on and on. We are pretty much screwed as a society because we don't take anyone out behind the sauna (or woodshed) or deep into the bayou anymore.
Because it's come up in thread drift, Halloween and the following day, All Hallows or All Saints Day are Christian Holidays. Halloween features a symbolic cleansing of evil spirits prior to the holiest day that does not honor Christ. The spooky stuff on Halloween started as people dressing up and wandering the village/city/whatever to scare away evil spirits. It evolved into "trick or treating" and and commercialized candy gluttony and cheap plastic costumes from there. Out of ignorance many think it's about "devil worship". Not surprising as we culturally only see a thin veneer and miss the substance underneath.