Posted on 10/13/2020 7:52:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The government requires that all kids – almost teenagers – be tied down like furniture every time they are transported in a car. This wasn’t always the case.
Why has it become the case?
Answering that question requires asking the question: What business is it of the government – of other people with various titles – to decree such things? Do these other people own your children? Do they own you? They are implicitly asserting at least partial parental oversight authority.
Where did they get this authority?
Did you, the parent, give it to them? If you did not, how is it that these other people have come to wield it over you?
It is said – by some – that it is “unsafe” for kids to be in cars without being in saaaaaaafety seats. And yet hundreds of millions of them – almost everyone who achieved adulthood before the early 1990s, before the government mandated child (almost teenager) ssssssssaaaaaaaafety seats for all – grew up not being strapped into them without suffering any injury at all.
Some did, of course. Some also tripped and fell. Others fell harder. Some drowned. A few also died from various things, some of them possibly avoidable.
So there is a degree of risk. As with everything in life. We all face risk every day, to varying degrees...
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Amen
I agree - a seat belt to keep 4 year old Sally from flying through the windshield is nothing short of Nazism!
Even walking on the streets, people will get hurt and many will die.
Should people have to wear safety gear for walking (or running)?
My parent’s first new car was a 1949 Buick convertible. No seat belts, and a good sold metal dash with a radio with metal knobs sticking out. If Mom or Dad hit the brakes, an arm would be thrust out to keep me from flying into the dash. Lot’s of long rides in the bed of my uncle’s pickup truck. The 50s were a great time to grow up.
Covid, cars, whatever. I told my bunch all year everything is because of liability. We Americans are in love with someone being liable.
I think the Corvair beat it by a few years, and (very definitely) in terms of overreach by the central government.
I want the govt to make the elderly sit in safety seats with helmets too.....
It doesn’t start with the seat, it starts with a mandatory air bag system which will literally decapitate your kid if you sit them in the front.
There was a story some years back where exactly that happened to a baby.
Why undermine your credibility by misspelling ‘safety’?
The Soccer Mom Law is that all vehicles 10k lbs and under have stability control (active shocks & struts)
The law was the result of a suite for a soccer mom aggressively driving her SUV and rolling it.
The term was coined prior to 2009 by various automotive magazines.
~sigh~... I wish I had that Jeep today. Cool old wagon; four shift levers.
When I was a kid and our family sedan only had front and rear lap belts, my parents used to call the front passenger seat the “death seat.” Fortunately, we never got in a serious accident.
“It doesn’t start with the seat, it starts with a mandatory air bag system which will literally decapitate your kid if you sit them in the front.”
Even. back in the ‘50s we knew kids ride in the back.
Besides, the shotgun seat has a weight setting for the airbag.
You’re on the wrong site. It’s the parents’ child. Not the government’s.
you are making the absurd argument that cuomo is.
“if it saves one life!”
Nothing is worth our freedom even if it saves a thousand lives.
You also do what Democrats do in picking a 4-year-old to back up your weak comment.
“he’s right! What kind of monster would want a 4-year-old to go through the window?!”
Well, using that argument, what kind of monster would want a kid to drown in a pool? So that’s it. no more pools.
And boys have even died getting hit by a line drive in the head. so no more baseball.
“Oh you are being extreme! I just think we should protect kids.”
You’re right. Except “they” should be the parents, not the government.
Democrats have always been smarter than the average Republican in that way.
Baby steps. With accepting gays. With accepting transsexuals. With accepting insanely ridiculous laws at this point regarding vehicles and driving.
15 mph signs. Speed cameras. Red light cameras. Tickets for grown men and women not wearing their seatbelts. hell you can get a ticket for a small crack in the window.
As you can’t see, but many of us can, it all started with safety for poor 4-year-old Sally.
It’s a shame that some on our side still don’t get it.
” If Mom or Dad hit the brakes, an arm would be thrust out to keep me from flying into the dash.”
Not in an accident.
Seatbelts...I know libertarians can be whacky but what bizarre hill to die on.
When I was a kid seat belts were those annoying things that you stuffed down in the crack between the seat and the seatback so they wouldn’t poke you in the back when you sat down.
A friend of mine bought a 1941 Buick, a barn find from Colorado. He fixed it up and had to put seat belts in it because his daughters were 7 and 4 at the time. My 64 Chevy has factory seat belts, our lovely daughter was 7 when I first bought it. In NY, FL and most other states doesn’t matter if the car is a 1920 or a 2020 if kids 12 or under ride in it they must wear seat belts and younger kids must be put in car seats.
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