Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cpsc53.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akguc!cpsc53!rt
From: rt@cpsc53.UUCP (Ron Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?(NO!)
Message-ID: <85115@cpsc53.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 21:55:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: cpsc53.85115
Posted: Thu Sep  5 21:55:35 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 13:31:57 EDT
References: <2778@harpo.UUCP>
Organization: ATT-IS CPSC, Atlanta, GA
Lines: 25

> 
>   If you had the power to save lives, would you do it? You and I do have that
>   power. On this day and at this moment, people are being smashed to death    
>   inside their cars when their lives could be preserved by air bags. We are
>   deprived of air bags by the opposing efforts of the powerful auto industry.
>   Safety experts claim that each year air bags would prevent thousands of     
>   deaths and prevent hundreds of thousands of serious injuries. A chorus of
>   voices raised in unison and directed at our representatives would have a
>   great impact. Please write. No endeavor is more important nor more noble
>   than to save lives.
>   

No. No NO! I would not. Why should I have to spend another $1000 or more
for a new car just because some idiots don't have enough sense to use
the safety equipment that is already provided?  The seatbelts are there
and surely the public has by now received enough education on their use.
My entire family uses them - and always has. If people do not care
enough about themselves or their families - to hell with `em. 
When are we going to stop trying to have the good ole goverment try
to do everything for everybody from birth to the grave! No wonder
the frigging deficit is so huge - trying to play Momma and Papa for over
200 million of us.

Ron Thompson
(akgua!cpsc53!rt)