Texas Kids Bringing Home DNA Kits

You have to wonder how parents are responding. It's like they are throwing their hands in the air and saying "We can't stop gun violence, I hope this will bring you peace when it happens to your child."

 

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Did anyone read the article?

This law passed before Uvaldie and the "emergency" it was designed for is missing/abducted children.

Not sure where the article gets it's title from. Am I misreading it?

 

Emergencies… applies to kidnapping or getting AR15’d I guess.

 

Tilly you are not misreading anything. Typical NBC extremist hackjob of an article about a law passed a year before Uvalde and which has absolutely nothing to do with school shootings. Typical replies by some posters as well. Here is the simple text of that law passed in September 2021.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTIONA1.AA Subchapter C, Chapter 33, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 33.0531 to read as follows: Sec.A33.0531.AACHILD IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM.
(a) The agency shall provide to all school districts and open-enrollment charter schools inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits to be distributed through the district or school on request to the parent or legal custodian of any kindergarten, elementary, or middle school student.
(b)A parent or legal custodian who receives a fingerprint and DNA identification kit may submit the kit to federal, state, tribal, or local law enforcement to help locate and return a missing or trafficked child.

 

The article quotes multiple parents who are concerned about the kits in relation to the shootings. That's not something NBC made up.

 

I'm speaking of the actual Bill. The headline says that, but the bill does not.

The bill created this as an aid to parents to help find abducted children.

This has nothing to do with school shootings. It's in the article clear as day.

 

I feel for the poor Texan who finds out his kid really belonged to the milk man.

 

But none of it has anything to do with kits.
As the OP insinuates.

This kit was not designed "in case they are blown apart by school shooters".

That is 100% made up.

 

One more time: No, the bill was not about the shootings. But Texas parents are upset that these kits are going out in the wake of the shootings. And this article, as do many others, is talking about the parents' reaction to the kits.

But i'll agree that the headline is a bit misleading.

 

One more time. The headline is misleading.

"Texas schools send parents DNA kits to identify their kids’ bodies in emergencies"

The purpose was not to identify bodies.
The purpose was to to "help locate and return a missing or trafficked child".

If you have a body then you can easily just match DNA from items in the home. These kits are designed to speed a process and find kids alive. Not ID bodies.

That is made up.

 

The headline is misleading but the interesting part is the state of mind of these parents IMO

 

One more time - you are precisely hitting on why I said this is nothing more than an NBC hackjob article. The hackjobber who wrote this had no intention of telling the parents what the law was really about and was just plain cruel and heartless as well as gutless in intentionally preying on their emotions just to write a pitiful agenda driven piece. PERIOD

 

Agreed, its a masterful job of nbc using a story to create emotional intrigue right before an election. The US media machine is no different than 1930s Germany or Imperial Japan, pure propaganda for the party.

 

How old would that “kid” have to be to have been fathered by a milk man? Gotta update that to the Amazon man, or something.

 

Good point.

 

The parents may well have known exactly why the law was passed. That didn't stop them from being upset. Multiple stories have been written about parents being upset over this. It's a bad headline, but the story is not an NBC invention.

 

We got DNA kits from the hospital when our kids were born in 1999, 2005 and 2007. Stored in the freezer. Texas that far behind the times?