Safety Pins are Dangerous Just Like Guns
In this story, to escape a kidnapper, a kid uses a safety pin to cut through the duct tape binding his hands together. At one point during the kidnapping he conceals the pin by foolishly placing it in his mouth. This strikes me as very dangerous because he could have died by accidentaly swallowing the safety pin.
Just like a gun, the safety pin posed certain dangers, and just like a gun the safety pin was used to stop a crime in progress. Some have argued that the danger of guns is greater than their benefit of stopping crime. I for one embrace this argument. Its also why I fully support the banning of safety pins. Their potential for harm far outweigh their benefits.
Besides, we have law enforcement whose job is to stop crimes. This kid should never of taken that risk with a safety pin and instead waited for the police to show up. If you ask me its better to keep your life in the hand of experts rather than take matters into your hands.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I could not agree more. Even further if we paid the cops more money they could have found him faster.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
I know when you pay teachers more students learn faster.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
OT, but wow:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-02-28-voa2.cfm
March 1st, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I heard a piece of his safety pin ended up killing 17 people 2 blocks away and they now are wondering how the kid will react to this news.
Further update …a mother shoot a hole in her 6-month old because some kid had stolen her safety pins and she thought that she would stick the diaper ends in the hole the bullet had created thus keeping the diaper on her baby.
March 1st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Of course puncturing a baby with a safety pin is probably just about as unwise as inadvertently shooting the bay.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pm
yes IT IS!
March 5th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I’ve seen the light. Guns are equivalent to safety pins. Wow I guess my position is untenable, I’ll go out now and buy a couple dozen guns and keep them loaded next to the baby’s diaper changing supplies.
Damn now I’m going to be walking down the dark streets of the slums between my apartment and work wondering if anyone is concealing a safety pin about their person, ready to mug me or poke up some rival gangbanger’ house in a drive-by pinning.