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
      12·
      9 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
        4·
        9 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
          11·
          9 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
            5·
            9 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
              10·
              9 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
                1·
                9 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
                  4·
                  9 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.