Retired, how is this a liberal thing? Don't blame liberals because someone is an asshole.
Hell, they post pictures of kids as young as five going hunting and in one case where the little girl had shot a bear and nothing happens.
Who ever started this shit against her is just an asshole right or left.
Uh Yeaaahh... Except that the issue isn't the arrest, as much as it is the notion that posing kids with firearms is worthy of notifying the state.
Now some panty-waist 'independent, centrist, moderate, progressive' is the one that alerted the State... and that is a certainty. Now you may ask, 'why is that a certainty? Isn't it possible for an American to see that allowing children to be around guns is a danger to those children?" To which the answer is: No... it is not possible for an American to see that children being posed with a firearm represents a danger to the children.
So at the core of this circumstance is Left-think... which is decidely Anti-American.
Let us not forget that only 30 years ago... I learned to shoot not only when I was IN HIGH SCHOOL... But >>
AT MY HIGH SCHOOL! Part of my daily studies in high school was to sign out my 03 Springfield bolt action rifle, which was assigned to me BY THE HIGH SCHOOL and clean it, study its function and master the effective use of same.
What's changed?
Do firearms do anything differently today than they did then? Not hardly...
What has changed is the decaying cultural recognition of the GOD GIVEN RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL and the SACRED RESPONSIBILITIES of EACH INDIVIDUAL TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS, WITHOUT INFRINGING UPON THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER...
Thus part and parcel of that cultural decadence is that where ONE individual violates his sacred responsibility... the myth emerges that ALL individuals are not capable of securing their sacred responsibilities, thus conceding that responsibility to the STATE; who determines that firearms in the hands of individuals is a bad thing, on the above stated basis.
And THAT is what caused who ever it was, to report these people to the State... and THAT is what is at issue here... Not the firearms, not the children, not the pot... and not the arrests. As those things are simple reactions TO THE ISSUE... that some idiot saw kids next to guns and concluded that the children were at risk; purely and solely because they believe 'guns are dangerous... and someone needs to look into it.' Who looked into it, was the States Child welfare 'service'... Some cop didin't get an order to go over and 'check this out'... it went to the DCS... who took a cop with her to 'investigate.' SURPISE! "We're from the Government and we're here to help... Open the door or we'll bust it down, if that's what it takes to help ya..."
After that, the pot alone was sufficient to get them arrested... if they had loaded firearms around the house, well that didn't help... and what will cause their children to be sent into fostercare and what will force the parents to jump through innumerable hoops, which they may or may not be able to jump, for any of a host of reasons... not the least of which will they will be in jail.
They're children will likely be given to a relative to be cared for... a relative who may nor may not care for them any better than their parents, who may or may not abuse them... and the list of 'unintended consequences' goes on into infinity...
And you immediately see how the system feeds upon itself... Left-think creates its own problems, for which Leftists are tasked with solving; which bring more left-think to bear, resulting in exponentially greater levels of 'unintended consequences'... all of which further chip away at the concept of individual rights and responsibilities... resulting in greater levels of responsibility being conceded to the state; and where the responsibility goes... SO GOES THE RIGHT!
And rationalizing that the parents shouldn't have been smokin dope and posing the kids with guns... doesn't even BEGIN to excuse it. People happen... and people aren't perfect... but destroying a family, in the name of saving the kids, is simple idiocy.
Take the same house... assume the parents comply with the state's demands, they 'earn their children back;' insert a home invasion where the homeowner has unloaded fire-arms in a locked gun cabinet, separated from his ammunition and is subjected to the brutality of addle-minded thugs... who then is responsible for the harm which such realizes on 'the children?' the panty-waist independent, moderate centrist who reported them to the state? Or the State?
The answer is BOTH... but the distinction here is that neither will BEAR THAT RESPONSIBILITY... because despite conceding one's RIGHT and responsibility TO THE STATE... one can't detach the burden inherent in that responsibility and the STATE AND THE PANTY WAIST, REFUSE TO TAKE IT; AND COULD NOT EVEN IF SUCH WERE POSSIBLE. The Parents and the children bear THAT RESPONSIBILITY... THE VICTIMS... and it has always been such and it will always BE SUCH... as that is Nature's way friends.
And it's just no more complex than THAT!