{"id":60759,"date":"2015-07-07T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60759"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:36:10","slug":"legislating-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60759","title":{"rendered":"Legislating stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Post<\/a>, 22-year-old Devon Staples, after a little lubrication, put a fireworks mortar on his empty head and threatened to light the contents. His friends thought that they had talked him out of it, when suddenly it ignited and killed Staples instantly. <\/p>\n

Staples\u2019s brother, 25-year-old Cody Staples, called it an accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the first one who got there,\u201d he told the New York Daily News. \u201cThere was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a freak accident. \u2026 Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stupid, right? Well, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, his mother seems to think that her son’s stupidity should be regulated;<\/p>\n

Staples’ mother, Kathleen Staples, said she is going to reach out to lawmakers about the possibility of tighter controls over fireworks. The state should consider requiring safety training courses before allowing someone to use them, she said. She compared fireworks with other regulated items such as cars and guns.<\/p>\n

“At least it’d be a little bit more than, ‘Here you go,'” Staples said. “That’s an explosive. They didn’t just hand me a license and put me in the car.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are also unlicensed drivers on the road. What part of the word “explosives” made Staples think that they wouldn’t blow his head off? Of course, this is Kathleen’s way of diverting blame for her son’s upbringing from herself. The problem with this country today is that there are too many regulations and rules – so many that most of us break laws everyday without knowing that we broke a law. Government can’t protect us from ourselves. If Staples’ friends couldn’t convince him that launching explosives from his head were a bad idea, why does mother think that any amount of training would do the job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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