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.

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.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    124·
    8 months ago

    So did I, but we didn’t have ammo in the house until I was an adult. Buying a youth-model gun and training kids to be safe with firearms early can be a responsible thing.

    Nobody at the gun range is scarier than the adult that’s never shot before who went and bought a pistol and a box of bullets. Last time I was at the range they were using freaking Airpods as their earpro.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      413·
      8 months ago

      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.

      Edit: your downvotes have convinced me to disregard everything we know about statistics in order to favor this one person’s anecdotal experience. You guys are good.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        112·
        8 months ago

        So you think young people shouldn’t be taught gun safety in a controlled environment before they’re able to buy guns or ammo?

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          52·
          8 months ago

          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?

          • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
            103·
            8 months ago

            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?

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              13·
              8 months ago

              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.

              Edit: Maybe if more ammosexuals downvote me, I’ll change my mind. Keep trying guys!

              • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
                41·
                8 months ago

                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.

                  • HelluvaKick@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    I’m not gonna try and convince you or anything. I’m pretty spotty on it now that I have kids, but also I live in a city now, so there’s not much of a point.

                    But I grew up where we got out of school for the first day of deer season. I would go hunting and fishing with every member of my family. Deer, quail, rabbit, turkey, duck, you name it. We’d pluck and skin em, process the meat and eat it for as long as we could. Less people hunt now and deer pops have been getting out of control. Not to mention the natural predators we have here, like cougars, coyotes, bears, snakes, goddamn hogs.

                    I believe guns are extremely necessary tools in rural America. But firearm safety was taught as hard as the gospel. That shit was drilled into us from as soon as we could understand words, for years before we could hold them. Turning 11 and going through hunter’s safety and then first buck was a rite of passage

                    I’m gonna compare it to sex ed here. If people are gonna have it, you may as well teach them everything possible about doing it safely.

                  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    Okay. Say you lived here. Would you want your kids to know firearm safety? Or would you prefer they learn by playing with their friend’s Dad’s gun he leaves in a drawer?