[etimberg]

This kind of incident is a microcosm of everything that's going wrong in the western world

[nicolas_t]

That particular bit of insanity is mostly restricted to the US. Other western countries still allow children to roam free for now

[TeaBrain]

Fortunately for the rest of the Western world, I don't think most of it has to deal with the artificial community concern about children walking on their own that the US experiences.