Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. It was actually the bacterial infection that spread from his tooth throughout his brain that killed him, but it didn’t help that the system was sort of rigged against him.

While I can attest that toothache pain is unbearable and I know that in the past it could be lethal, I would never expect anyone in today’s age of technological advancement to actually die from an abscessed tooth. I don’t have any idea how much pain this kid must have endured as the infection spread but he must have been strong-willed to have resisted the pain for so long.

If this kid had been old enough to join the military, he would have gotten free medical care. That’s a welfare system everyone in America can support. After all, how else will we legally kill off the uneducated and indigent? Oh yeah…do not provide medical care…