Balls hurt and kill people. Why do we want that around our children? But so many people are insensitive about the issue. That is why so many kids are dead because of balls. The children are the people of tomorrow but if they are getting injured and even killed then how are they going to be the adults of tomorrow?
Balls are the cause of thousands of deaths every year. It is safe to say that balls cause more problems than good in the modern society. This is why I do not have a problem with those that want stricter laws on having balls. We need to be seriously cautious with having the right to have balls.
Balls give an illusion of enjoyment. In reality they are not that enjoyable at all. Look at soccer for instance, it’s boring to the hell. Not to mention all the hooligans and their violent actions.
Of course, it’s again an issue of money, big money, big business. Rich people and the ball merchants will never give up and will never quit the huge market of balls and they will try their best to sell more and more balls each and every day. But in my opinion, people are very unstable, I mean, when you look at them, people get angry very easily and that is a fact. So why would we allow balls to be sold freely if the human species can get so unstable.
It’s not surprising that every year we see a lot of children doing the unthinkable and bringing dangerous balls into the schools. Yep, it’s right, children do that frequently, it’s unbelievable. I too even knew a guy that has a child who did the same. He is a professional soccer player and has some nice shiny soccer balls in his home, it’s his job you know, he has to have balls. He normally keeps them away from his children but children are very smart these days so apparently the kid knew where the balls hidden and he secretly took one of them to take it to his school. Thank God his teacher was very careful and did catch the kid to secure the ball before someone got hurt. I don’t even want to think about what would happen otherwise.
But there is a more fundamental problem with the idea that balls actually make the children happy and cheerful. Balls rarely get used that way. In the early 2000s, a team headed by a professional researcher looked at all injuries involving balls in the major cities in the US. They found that balls were a factor far more often in accidents, injuries, quarrels among the children and even deadly incidents than being a toy and bringing joy to the children. For every instance in which a ball in the home, streets or schools was played by a kid or kids and brought joy, there were seven accidents like the balls hitting a face or children falling on their kneecaps, four brawls with bleedings and 11 upskirt-peep attempts by boys against their girl game-mates. And in almost ten percent of the games played by children with at least one ball of any kind, the balls got lost by the kids at the end of the games, of course to be find later by who knows which other dangerous kids.
The cost-benefit balance of letting children to play with a ball, according to a 2010 review by the scientists, far from making children happier, a ball near the kids is a particularly strong risk factor for all the aforementioned incidents.
Regulating balls on the other hand, can reduce this kind of risks. An analysis by federal agents about illegal balls, found that in states that required a background check for every ball sale, children were injured and cried at a much lower rate. Some senators have used this fact to press the case for universal background checks, to make sure that domestic children legally prohibited from having balls cannot get them through international ways.
I certainly believe that stronger standards for legal ball ownership could help reduce all the horrific occurrences caused by balls. I’m not the only one with this mindset of course, that is why the American Academy of Pediatrics has long urged parents to remove balls from their homes. Thankfully nowadays, parents are also a lot more knowledgeable on the issue and they are more reactive against the heartbreaking incidents including balls.