Should children be banned from buying junk food?

No. Not everyone who eats junk food feels the need to eat it to excess. It's not fair to punish every child, just because many children are obese from too much junk food and too little exercise.

But more importantly, regulating our children's diets is not the government's job. It's their parents' job. What to eat or not eat, and when, is a personal choice. It would be ludicrous to allow the government to dictate our diets to us.

Just because people are doing something that's unhealthy for them, doesn't mean we need to enact a law against it. People don't need the government to save them from themselves and their unhealthy lifestyles. Freedom means being able to choose how to live your life, for better or worse.

Parents must be allowed the fundamental freedom to decide for themselves what is okay for their child to eat, and when. And children deserve not to be collectively treated like utter imbeciles who cannot even be trusted to decide on a snack for themselves.

The government should not have control over us to the extent where laws dictate our lifestyle.