Firearms are to be treated like metal lepers.
Beverages containing alcohol are the equivalent of satanic potions.
And, now the move is afoot to protect our children from the curse of the Twentieth Century, the automobile. The absurdity of this Prohibitionist mentality is obvious to anyone who wants to open his or her eyes. Youngsters are accidentally shot by playmates because they have not been taught how to safely handle firearms, or for that matter other tools and implements that can harm. We spend billions of dollars in the futile campaign to isolate our youth from the siren song of Demon Rum. Meanwhile, many other industrialized nations hardly give the subject a passing thought.