UPDATE: Cincinnati Police Zero In On Parents in Zoo Incident

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34. Simple question, yes or no

Should cars not be able to go more than 5 miles an hour since car accidents claim tens of thousands of lives a year, many of them children? We would save tens of thousands of lives with that change. Simple right?

Your question isn't simple, it's simplistic and displays a stunning lack of depth in understanding of just how infrequently this happens. The Cincinnati zoo set a record attendance in 2009 of 1.2 million visitors. So let's say over the last 38 years, they averaged 750,000 visitors to account for population growth. That gives a total of 28,500,000 visitors over 38 years. One of them managed to defeat the barrier. 1 out of 28.5 million. That is a hell of a safety record.

The parents didn't watch their kids well enough. They got lucky and the gorilla paid the price. The barrier was enough to stop millions of visitors over the years. It's not the barrier's fault. It's the parents and their lack of paying attention and personal responsibility.