The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.
Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.
Everyone is super impressed by your story, it just seems like you don’t understand that your anecdote is meaningless in the face of actual statistical data.
So you think young people shouldn’t be taught gun safety in a controlled environment before they’re able to buy guns or ammo?
This is the dumbest, most dystopian American shit I’ve ever read. No, I don’t think children should have access to firearms, period. Why is that so difficult to grasp?
You have the luxury of living in a world where young people won’t be exposed to guns. There are hundreds of million of them here.
If you live on the shore of a lake, should you teach your kids to swim, or just let them figure it out when they fall off the dock when you aren’t around?
Yeah because a child can wield a lake and kill several adult humans by simply moving their finger. Totally comparable.
This country is brain-broken.
Taking a kid to a gun range and teaching them how to safely handle a gun is different than providing them unrestricted access to firearms.
Your “abstinence only” approach to guns isn’t realistic. Guns exist and just telling kids they’re bad and for grownups only doesn’t work.
Kids need to be given the tools they need to stay safe. Look at all the kids who were told that same things about drinking, and sex. What happens when they get to college? They go crazy and end up pregnant with their car wrapped around a tree.
They do the same thing with guns. They are suddenly old enough to buy or rent them, and they do stupid shit.
Brain damaged country…