Exactly -- who are you to judge?<p>When you say that you&#x27;re white and middle class, are you implying that perhaps non-white and lower class parents aren&#x27;t as responsible, and therefore need the police to step in?<p>I have an issue with &quot;if it turned out that it did on average prevent injuries or deaths&quot; line of reasoning.  With 380 M people, it&#x27;s an easy standard to reach.<p>&quot;8 year old Becky, with her irresponsible parents, would be alive today if there had been a law.&quot;  That&#x27;s going to be easy to say.  But what you can&#x27;t easily measure is something along the lines of &quot;these hundred thousand children are not learning life skills because we codified fear of low risk situations into law.&quot;<p>The costs are disperse and hard to measure, the benefits easily identified.  So we have a bias to &quot;do something.&quot;