For the second year in a row, the legislature of Connecticut has failed our children. No, I’m not talking about the children affected by the Common Core educational standards, or the children affected by increasing gun violence, but the children that no one cares to think of as children: juvenile delinquents, as they might’ve called them back in the 60s.
“Think of the children” is the rallying cry of politicians and agitators of all stripes who want to further curb lawful activity or ratchet up the already vice-like grip of penal sentences. These children they want you to think of are the sweet, doe-eyed innocents whose very lives are at constant risk from the criminal lurking in the shadow, awaiting any opportunity to jump out and corrupt these wondrous babes.
