Aha! Now I see the non-connection you are attempting to make. Except that I have never done that. I do not justify my position based on my choices. I justify my decisions based on my belief that parents and only parents should be the only ones involved in raising their children, however that gets done, whatever decisions are made. (Ironically enough, it's a very libertarian opinion. ) Whether I am the best or worst parent in the world is irrelevant to my argument. For that matter, I would hold this belief even if I had never birthed life into this world. I don't use my parenting choices as the standard. I use the state's non-existent power/authority except that which it has granted to itself at the expense of taking it from the parents as my standard. If it, the state, cannot deprive me of my possessions without due process, then neither should it be able to deprive me of my role as parent, including the physical possession of my children, without due process. And that based on uniform laws of rights of the individuals, not manufactured ones that give the state more authority to "protect" children.Again... your statement assumes your dad was the lowest standard of parenting. Give him more credit than that
Your dad was a good parent correct? I'm assuming that 88GT is a great parent also... I can tell she loves her kids and puts a lot of time into raising them from her responses here! So why then are you using your parenting techniques as proof that there doesn't need to be a check for bad parenting? You aren't making a coherent argument here... you are simply patting yourselves on the back for not needing CPS or anyone else to step in and parent for you.
You guys are contradicting yourselves and don't even realize it...unless of course you are silly enough to believe that your great parenting is the lowest standard in the world and all parents are as good or better than yourselves.
The irony is that there is little philosophical/function difference in the attempt to ban firearms for the sake of the children and this attempt to justify the existence of CPS for the sake of the children. Both infringe on the rights of the individual in the misguided attempt to prevent bad things from happening. If you can support the one endeavor for that reason, why not the other?