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Should children be allowed to dress as clowns this Halloween?

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Should children be allowed to dress as clowns this Halloween?
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It's sad that clowns have gone from characters created to make people laugh to something scary. Something that adults have ruined in my opinion.
"Be allowed" - I don't think there should be rules about what kind of costumes people can wear. I wouldn't suggest being a clown, but I'm not going to stop you.
In my state, clowns have been sending threats, I would highly suggest not associating with clowns this Halloween as someone may get hurt.
I didn't know it was that bad. Dammit, polls need an option for changing your mind!
The vast majority (100%) of these 'reports' originated from websites that don't even try to hide that they are fake. People hit the share button on Facebook without doing research, or for that matter, thinking. Then local news channels more desperate for ratings than truth pick it up and people think it is legit. This is how a 'clown scare' is born.
Yes folks. Clowns are coming for you. Right after they cash that check from Bill Gates, eat the free bag/case of m&ms, and redeem the Outback Steakhouse gift certificate they got from forwarding those emails. But it is ok, cause they are handing out cookies made from the $250 Neiman Marcus recipe. But you do need to beware those wicked Pepsi cans that removed 'under God' from the pledge of allegiance...even though Pepsi never published any part of the pledge on their cans at all.
I am only saying it because I personally know someone who has seen clowns walking around with knives in their town and friends that their school has received threats from "clowns" in Texas I know a lot of trigger happy people who might harm someone dressed as a clown because they saw them as a threat. It's safer just to not act like a threat and stay away from the clown outfit at least for this halloween. There are tons of other costumes that can be used so my thoughts are "rest the clown costume this Halloween and see if it calms down by next halloween" if people don't bring up clowns and nothing major happens then it should die down before next year hopefully.
I came across a video the other day that was a compilation of different videos where groups of people came across clowns in the dark standing looking creepy - and in a few of them they ended up beating up the clown - so yeah even if it started off as a fake story, people are going to be jumpy and you don't want a kid to end up badly hurt because of that.
Agreed. Better to be safe than sorry
I think that this year we need to just drop clowns. Kids dressing up as them is just going to continue the stupid clown scare so schools and such should be allowed to ban the costumes. There is obviously nothing that can be done about public trick or treating, but the clown thing needs to just stop.
Just let the kids wear what they want. Adults dressing up as "killer clowns" is pretty tasteless though.
(then again, I am not from the US. If you say that this clown thing is more serious than it appears to me, I believe you.)
I hate clowns, and I understand that studies and surveys show that most children dislike clowns but... Why shouldn't children be allowed to dress as clowns? They're a horror movie staple, so that makes them good for Hallowe'en costumes, no?
I think we should retire clowns entirely tbh - but then I've always found them creepy even before the "clown scare".