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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Bags and Belts
Message-ID: <3670@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 19:33:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 19:33:57 1985
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> The issue of what laws the government should (or shouldn't) pass
> to protect us from ourselves is a bigger issue than just
> seatbelts.  We can argue the larger question, but Uncle
> has so far been unshakeable in the position that the people
> WILL BE PROTECTED.  The only choice that we have any hope
> of making for ourselves is HOW.  The options:  seatbelts
> or airbags.

You don't know the half of it.

There is a third choice: both at once.

For instance, the NJ seat belt law was carefully crafted so
it does not meet the Federal requirements for a "mandatory
seat belt law."