From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Groups Getting Out the Word on New Gun-Regulation Plan
5/26/00 From Join Together Online
...
Public-health professionals point to this technology as
an example of how consumer-product-safety standards
should apply to guns. The Johns Hopkins report points
to other examples of product-design modifications in other
industries that have resulted in reduced injuries and deaths:
Safer cigarette lighters save the lives of 80 to 105 children
under the age of five each year, and automobile air bags,
according to several studies, have reduced the total number
of driver fatalities by 20 to 25 percent. Those changes were
brought by governmental agencies possessing the powers
to establish consumer-product regulations.
[...]
Let's see. The Johns Hopkins group is inherently
as biased a group (anti firearms) as any you'll find quoted.
Safer cigarette lighters?
Safer compared to what? Everyone of them still
produces a flame quite readily, and almost any child over
two years of age can easily operate one. Safe?
Air bags have killed more children than they have
saved, else why the big brouhaha to either disable the bags
in the front passenger seats - where children might sit, or
move the children to the seats in a car that have none?
I detect a bit of journalistic deceit, in that
the author would have us believe that regulation will save
more lives, when the regulations that mandated the air bags
were the impetus for causing those deaths.
In the US, the whole theme behind modern regulatory
excess, is essentially the government saying: Don't attempt to think
for yourself; remain dumb, ignorant, and dependant on us for
everything.
As always, regulation is that preferred method by
which corrupt government, bent on total control, will initiate
laws that are for 'our own good'; where there is no law, there
can be no strict control, only judicial reproof. But where there is
a law, control is but a matter of degree and time, until expedience
vitiates liberty. It is far easier to amend an existing law, than to
enact one wholly constricting of something.
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