I will offer the following: We could "save" 40,000 lives per year if we just outlaw motorized travel altogether (probably not, though, since horses and mules have a brain the size of a walnut and occasionally have to prove that they weigh 1,000 lbs. or more and we don't).
The law of diminishing returns comes into play here. It's just not worth it. Nor is it worth criminalizing 2 million people per year for "DWI". More kids drown in mop buckets every year than there are innocent people killed in traffic accidents (oops, "crashes") caused by "drunk" drivers, yet there is no such organization as "Mothers Against Mop Buckets".
It just isn't worth it.
This includes the anti-smoking kooks, the food police, the socialized-medicine advocates, and the "Smart Growth" afficionados that want us all living in beehives in CBD's, either walking, bicycling, or taking public transportation everywhere we go.
It's the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Check them out under the "Foundations" drop-down menu.
"It just isn't worth it."
Cindy sheehan says that too.
I will offer the following: We could "save" 40,000 lives per year if we just outlaw motorized travel altogether.
Or we could make the speed limit 15 mph. Who can object to that? Think of the lives we'd save. Is it really worth 40,000 or 20,000 or even 10,000 lives just to be able to get to work quicker?