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.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?
