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It's so hard to think logically about safety. We figure that any time our health or the safety of our children is at stake, it's better safe than sorry. Our safety is too important for logic, damn it!

Unfortunately, this leads to a whole lot of well-publicized and expensive safety measures that are often worthless, or downright dangerous. Like...

It's all about keeping us safe, not just obedient right? An unintended consequence of the extra security theater will likely be the deaths of far more people who decide to drive while the naked scanners and gropings will do nothing to keep us safe.

What if 1 of the teachers had a gun?
Sandy Hook massacre begs question of how to protect children at school

Does making schools “gun-free zones” really protect children, or make them easy targets?

The recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has left many wondering how best to keep children safe from mad gunmen who ignore the “gun-free zone” laws – and indeed any gun-control laws – to open fire on our nation’s most innocent.

"Why Mommy is a Democrat" and "Why Daddy is a Democrat" are children's books that teach children why it's good to force people to share, and that public school teachers and firefighters do a great job because of the Democrat Party agenda.

Did you know know that Democrats keep children safe? Did you know that Democrats make the earth feel better? You and your child will learn all of this and more when you buy these wonderful children's books.

"It's not that we're turning a blind eye," he said. "I give credit to the officers' efforts because they're the ones out there making those decisions.

"The goal is to have a safe environment. ... It's not about making arrests. It's about keeping students safe. It appears the more officer presence we have, fewer arrests."

Ripple has grown over recent months, from an interesting concept with dormant projects into an actively developing ecosystem.

The Ripple Project (http://ripple-project.org/) aims to build a new form of money which derives from existing social relationships rather than from rigidly inefficient central banking systems. The project involves technological as well as economic, social, and other aspects.

Safe Ride, Bernalillo County's program that offers bar hoppers free rides to and from home, will see a $20,000 increase in funding next year, but one of drunk driving's biggest opponents says it's a bad idea.

"I have a big problem with that," said Linda Atkinson with the DWI Resource Center. "The victims we work with and the victims that MADD works with los their jobs, lose their homes. They lose everything and there's no pot of money that helps them."

"It's almost like we created an industry to help take care of these offenders and the victims be damned. And I think that is so wrong."

The problem with safety guidelines is that they make most playgrounds so uninteresting as to contribute to reduced physical activity.

[Infographic] Combating Mass Incarceration - The Facts

The war on drugs has helped make the U.S. the world's largest incarcerator.

America’s criminal justice system should keep communities safe, treat people fairly, and use fiscal resources wisely. But more Americans are deprived of their liberty than ever before - unfairly and unnecessarily, with no benefit to public safety. Especially in the face of economic crisis, our government should invest in alternatives to incarceration and make prisons options of last – not first – resort.