Fun fact: These lawn darts are on display at the American Museum of Tort Law, founded by Ralph Nader. Along with other products pulled from the market when they injured or killed people.
Similarly, you can still buy cigarettes, but they're more heavily regulated and banned from most buildings. This is what should happen with guns--at the very least, stricter regulations and controls.
Plus 6,100 people total were injured by lawn darts. Several lost an eye.
Gun deaths and injuries dwarf those numbers. 27,000 injuries EACH year, and 500 accidentally deaths EACH year.
1988 we cared for children. Citizen United was unthinkable and we had a Secret Service agent who survived a gun wound in the line of duty advocating for an assault weapons ban.
If those lawn darts had been fired from a pipe with a stock and trigger they would have been celebrated and whole swathes of idiots would make their entire identity about them.
The law banning kinder eggs existed before kinder eggs and came about as a result of corporations padding their food with inedible stuff like sawdust to increase their profit margins. The law was passed in 1938 predating Kinder surprise eggs by over 30 years. You can blame capitalism for this one.
You're not wrong BUT
in August 1997, Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted a recall of these eggs. This product is banned for sale in the United States because the toy surprise hidden inside can pose choking and aspiration hazards to children younger than 3 years of age.
Maria Butina laundered $30 million from Russia to the RNC thru NRA . NRA is a main source of Dark $ for the right. Thats why the leading cause of death for children is guns. The GOP care far more about $ than children or anyone's life.
Those were the days when it was cool for GOP to care.
Now it’s the opposite. They don’t care about anything but their career and bank account. There’s no line they won’t cross. They are not patriots.
We got rid of our when one of the kids threw it high into the air and it come down on the back of one of the bbq guests who had bent over to pick up a frisbee. Missed his spine by about 1/2 inch. He was ok only took about two weeks to walk normal again. Smart governmental move. Dangerous
Still listed as prohibited to bring into the US--I was just checking restrictions as we are headed in to the US in a few days. Absolutely laughable...My daughter (36) and grandson (8)have each survived their favourite Kindereggs every Christmas and Easter since infancy!!!!
You, apparently, are a good parent and teacher.
I discovered #KinderEggs while living in Germany. Never heard of any issues with kids and the toys while there.
I found a store in Las Vegas that would somehow import and sell them until they got busted doing so.
11 years later, we went through Columbine and nothing worth anything has been done to save lives or make necessary changes. NRA and the politicians that bow down to them are responsible. Profits over lives is their mantra.
“After a recent serious injury caused by a lawn dart, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reissued its warning that lawn darts are banned and should be destroyed. Effective on December 19, 1988, CPSC banned the sale of all lawn darts in the United States.”
The congressional legislation, passed in the House by a 304-51 vote — by acclamation in the Senate, and it was during a Republican Presidential administration.
In 1971, Richard Nixon the disgraced president signed into Law, the 1971 Drug Scheduling Act making cannabis a Schedule 1 drug right up there with heroin and starting the longest war on Americans in history. No one has ever died from an overdose of cannabis, it is not toxic. That's our government!
I worked with a guy that when he was a kid, he and his friends would throw Jarts in the air and then run from them. He had so many stories. I can’t believe he survived childhood.
On average, 20 infant boys die a year and their cause of death recorded on their birth certificate is "circumcision". If someone places a really high value on doing something despite children suffering, it doesn't matter how many children die. It matters what adults value.
NLDA membership ranks had fallen to levels that didn’t justify and couldn’t sustain large political gifts required to remain relevant. Plus, members weren’t outraged, they were just happy playing with lawn darts and hadn’t figured out how to turn their passion into a tribal holy war
Lawn darts can cause serious injuries, including skull punctures and death. In the eight years prior to the ban, 6,100 Americans were treated in hospital emergency rooms for lawn dart accidents.
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Twas a huge deal
Gun deaths and injuries dwarf those numbers. 27,000 injuries EACH year, and 500 accidentally deaths EACH year.
in August 1997, Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted a recall of these eggs. This product is banned for sale in the United States because the toy surprise hidden inside can pose choking and aspiration hazards to children younger than 3 years of age.
Now it’s the opposite. They don’t care about anything but their career and bank account. There’s no line they won’t cross. They are not patriots.
Time to start holding gun manufacturers accountable.
We're we more free back then? In some ways, yes we were.
Note: (meant ironically)
#GunsDontMakeUsSafer #GunControlNow
Also how does she never fail to looking deranged.
Not the revamped, Safe-for-America Kinder Surprise. I am talking old-school Kinder Eggs.
I discovered #KinderEggs while living in Germany. Never heard of any issues with kids and the toys while there.
I found a store in Las Vegas that would somehow import and sell them until they got busted doing so.
I'm shocked it was just one kid who died.
Thank you.
Our "Gooberment" just needs people to hate each other and vote harder.
If I did not know the difference between a gun and a metal lawn dart, I would instantly believe darts is much more dangerous than firearms.
And the partial reading of the Amendment by a biased SCOTUS.