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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you ?
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 13:22:36 EDT
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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.

I heard (though it may have been a Republican inspired rumor) there
were many problems with airbags inflating on the highway when cars
run over small objects. If this is true, I'll go on wearing my seatbelt.

-todd jones