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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <515@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 06:26:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 06:26:06 1985
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> 
>   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.
>   

	But I don't want an airbag in my car. I always wear a seat belt, but 
even if I had one and didn't want to wear it I would have that choice. If
other people want airbags, let them order their cars with them, just don't 
force me to get one.
	(I suspect alot of the lives saved each year would be those of
people who don't wear their seat belts now)

-- 
jcpatilla

"At night, the ice weasels come."