Law-Abiding Foster Parents Lose Kids Because They Own A Firearm

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As a total diversion to this thread, I came across an interesting story that made me think of the discussion a couple weeks back about false confessions and the incredulity some expressed that someone would confess to a crime he/she didn't commit.

Here's an example from American history. In this case, we can be pretty sure that the confession is false. While the article doesn't go into why this man would have confessed to impregnating a sow, we can infer that, for whatever reason, he succumbed to the pressure he was being put under and saw confession as the best way out of it. Not too different, I imagine, than what happens with alarming frequency still today.

https://www.slate.com/articles/news...he_twisted_puritan_origins_of_our_modern.html

Sorry for the thread derail, but I didn't want to start a new thread for this, nor did I feel like digging up the old thread.

I don't see how this is unrelated to this thread. Every thread I post in gets so muddled with divergent facts and assertions nobody can keep track of what the topic is.

I have a incomparable talent for bringing it all to the point, though.

Owning a gun in today's PC climate is just as reprehensible to the sensitivities of magistrates and bureaucrats as this act with a pig was back then. Of course, today we are enlightened folks with no antiquated notions of propriety, and we treat our pets' rights with greater respect than our own.