In a post I titled “Here’s a Law We Don’t Need,” I recently wrote about a bill introduced in the House to ban novelty lighters.  A bill to do the same thing has now been introduced in the Senate.

As I said at the time (hey, quoting beats writing!):

And that’s why we have “parents.” To tell children to leave lighters the heck alone. And to take them away from children, and to scold children, and to send children to bed without any supper, and ultimately to mold children into well-adjusted adults. Again, that’s what parents do to children. It’s not what the Consumer Product Safety Commission does to all of us grown-ups.

Here’s the current vote on the bill. Click to vote, comment, learn more, and edit the wiki article on the bill.