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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The most unsafe place for people over 70 is the bathroom. Want to save people, bubble wrap the bathroom.
I do like the beep that tells me someone is coming in my lane but doesn’t see me. And I like the back out camera on the cars. Those are great features that probably saved thousands of accidents.
Should ban toilets too. A kid could fall in head first and drown. No outhouses either and some little kids could fall in there.
Seat belts should be optional and their use decided by the owner and his insurance company. Get hurt in a crash without a seatbelt, no insurance payout. Simple. Same for motorcycle helmets.
Why don’t school buses have seat belts? Only driver has 1.
Rear seating lead to kids left in hot cars to cook to death.
Simple fix, computer chip reminding you to check rea seat, our Malibu has it. Doesn’t go by weigt, but you opened rear door and put anything in rear seat.
I found a vintage set of Jarts at my mother in laws house. I’m thinking of bringing them to the church picnic next weekend.
Perhaps, but all this stuff costs money that I'd prefer not to spend on a car. Like a lane variation warning sensor, I really don't need that. And the tire pressure warning system, no thanks, when they go bad it's another $500. I'll visually check my tires. And millions of other safety and environmental components. Thee should be fine cars out there for less than $20,000.
AMEN——I even had a Welsh Pony that I rode bareback every summer day.
The ONLY friends I lost growing up were two that on prom night tried to pass another car on a blind curve.
Thousands of school chums from K to 12, none died from the things the busybodies claimed they would.
“you are making the absurd argument that cuomo is.”
Actually, you are.
It would be instructive to examine the relationship between the child safety seat manufacturer(s) of the time and the political sponsors of the bill mandating their use.
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That’s easy. Because before seat belts were made mandatory, there were very few superhighways in the U.S. The superhighway system began under Eisenhower. Before that, speed limits were lower everywhere, and Americans were more polite and law-abiding.
However, deadly accidents were caused either by reckless teenagers, sleepy drivers or alcohol, either to themselves or to innocent safe drivers they would run into. When there were either hard brakings or collisions, unrestrained children’s large heads in relation to body would propel them out through the windows of the car or smash fhem against the dashboard or windshield. If they were held on a passenger’s lap, the full weight of the adult would be thrown forward, crushing the child.
Seat belts and child restraints do save lives. Except for stupid or wicked parents who leave their kids in a hot car. But the numbers of those don’t even compare.
We also rode bikes, roamed the neighborhood unsupervised and walked to and from school. And not one of my classmates suffered from obesity, a major pediatric health problem today.
And now we're starting to decriminalize pedophilia.
Was thinking of a head-on.
We hit it just right with discounts, a CD and other bargains. We are seniors, so vision is limited due to Cataract surgery, arthritis we actually needed a few bells and whistles. Hubby was a Electronics’ Prof so he fixes all that stuff. What he can’t do is see well. For both of us NO night driving.
The first car that had seatbelts that I rode in was my dad’s 1951 Jag. After my parent’s divorce, he took up the swinging bachelor lifestyle. Installed the belts to impress his dates with how fast the car was.
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