Moral decline has nothing to do with it, we need a realality check here, young people from babies to college students are abducted everyday. This man may of had pure intentions, but the fact is he was a stranger, so why take a chance with loved ones lives.
Well number one as a street evangelist myself I wouldn't have targeted children coming off of a school bus near school, but IF I did proper protocol would've been to ask the schools permission to pass out literature and if they refused move on to the next area (preferably not a school) and give the tracts elsewhere.