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No. You are philosophically wrong on ALL counts, and philosophies such as yours CREATE these problems, they don't solve them. Cripes, the front-seat airbags that started this whole mess came about because they were mandated by folks with mindsets much like yours -- the nanny state, of legislators and others forcing their ideas of "safety" on everyone else. Your statistics with regard to numbers of kids "saved" by not being smashed by front-seat airbags versus the ones who broil forgotten in the backseat may be mathematically correct, but statistics are among freedom's biggest enemies when they presume to force specific behaviors that are none of your, my, nor the States's business. This is a matter of FREEDOM and making your own decisions. Parents should decide for themselves how they want to provide "safety" for thier kids, not you, not me, not a bunch of lawmakers. Parents.

Speaking of air bags, the other day the news reported that (I seem to think it happened in my state of Ohio)while driving on the highway, someone’s passenger seat airbag deployed spontaneously. The driver pulled off the road and literally moments after getting out of the car, the driver side bag deployed.

I’m more afraid of air bags in cars than driving without one. I’m also very petite and have read a lot of the anecdotal evidence about injuries (some fatal) to us “wee folk.”

I’m generally with you on some of these legislative things. I am not AGAINST airbags, but I think they should be an option in a car, much like a stereo or AC.