Especially to my Floridian friends and family, but a good thing to keep in mind anyway

[xiphias]

Almost all laws named after dead children are bad laws.

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[yendi]

Andrew Vachss noted the pointlessness of this nearly twenty years ago.

"As public outrage builds, politicians remain calm—they know (from long experience) that the public is easily appeased by naming still another hollow law after still another dead child."

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Werd.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I wish it were more widely recognized that naming a law after a dead child is a thought-ending cliché.

naming laws or numbering laws

[(Anonymous)]

examples "defense of marriage", "patriot act" on one hand-
Title IX (equal access to sports), 766 (guaranteeing handicapped kids get an education)=>generalization, if there is a virtue in the name, it ain't in the law