What kind of parent tattoos their nine-year-old?
My mind drifts to some archetypal Antifa lunatic who lives in downtown Portland. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to hear they brought their nine-year-old to a female-owned tattoo parlor to get some slogan or symbol scratched onto their little scrawny bicep.
Yet color me surprised when the 9-year-old in question turned out not to have a BLM fist, pride flag, or #EQUALITYNOW tattoo, but a good ol’ American flag.
Arizona tattoo artist inks girl aged NINE who asked for portrait of Trump on her neck pic.twitter.com/RoCYksi7hH
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 8, 2025
According to local outlet AZFamily, parents brought their nine-year-old into a Yuma, Arizona, tattoo shop, where the child originally requested a Donald Trump neck tattoo. Yikes. Arizona is one of the least regulated states for tattoos in America, allowing children to get inked with parental approval. Thankfully, relatively responsible tattoo artist at least persuaded her to get something a little less jarring, a simple American flag on her arm. Yet he still had the audacity to post a video of the tattoo sesh, which prompted debate over whether children should be able to get tattoos even with parental approval.
Easy answer: it shouldn’t. This is the same argument that deranged progressives use to send children to the medical chop shop: parents and doctors agree that “gender-affirming care” is necessary, so the government has no business to step in. Yet the government does have an obligation to prevent harm against a helpless, cognitively undeveloped minor whether it’s physical abuse, sexual exploitation, barbaric medical experimentation, or yes, a permanent dermal stamp.
And like the transgender issue, the tattoo doesn’t occur without adult influence. A 16-year-old, maybe, but no nine-year-old comes up with the idea to get a political tattoo on their own. Just like the little boy who magically starts to believe he’s a girl, kids will believe just about anything with the slightest adult prodding.
I don’t care what it is. It could be a hammer and sickle or the entire text of the Constitution; both are equally bad. Thankfully, everyone seems to be on the same page. The video of the tattoo posted by the artist seems to have drawn universal outrage, with people pointing it’s not only bad for the girl, but also makes the industry look bad as a whole.
Personally, I don’t think this outrage goes far enough.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
