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August 3, 2005
Government Run Amuck
An 11 year old girl was arrested on a deadly weapons charge for throwing a rock at a boy who hit her with a water balloon. You can read the article here. What is up with that? Kids do stupid things all the time, that is why they are kids, they don't have fully formed social knowledge and skills. It certainly seems inappropriate to punish her so severely for her act. Her parents should certainly punish her and she should apologize to the boy, but for the local government to get involved seems way over the top. Officials have lost their sense of proportion and what is appropriate. To often they want to appear tough on crime to satisfy an imagined need of their electorate. Yes, people want authorities to protect them and punish criminals, but one has to have common sense too.
Posted by Chip Spear at August 3, 2005 12:52 PM
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