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(24,853 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Kablooie
(18,610 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Is sheer genious
for those who need it
Kablooie
(18,610 posts)Maybe she'll dump Ken to get together with GI Joe and go gun down a few libruls.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,523 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Generally, most states require all kids younger than eight to ride in a federally approved child safety seat or booster thats properly secured. Exemptions are usually granted to kids exceeding four feet and nine inches, but that little girl is no where NEAR 4'9"!
A minor cannot:
- buy tickets to PG-13 or R rated movies
- rent a car
- stay in a hotel or motel unaccompanied by adults
- have consensual sex
- smoke
- drink or enter a bar
- gamble or enter a casino
- serve in the Armed Forces
- vote
Among many, many other things we
But thanks to the NRA and the gutless asshats of the Republican AND Democratic parties, they CAN:
- be given a lethal weapon by damn near anyone vaguely related to them
- fire said weapon without ANY common sense at all entering the equation as to whether or not they SHOULD just because they CAN
One of my all-time favorite movie quotes comes to mind:
Tod: You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father. (Parenthood - 1988)