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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The risk to your kids from such incidents is minuscule.  They face a much greater risk of injury or death from just driving on the beltway.

Further, the increasing prevalence of texting while driving presents a greater risk to your kids - and it's preventable (not to mention illegal and not constitutionally protected).  Then there is drunk driving - which is common among undocumented males.  What about that threat?  Done anything about that?

Why aren't you raising the alarm about those risks?[/quote]

First of all, no.  The number of non-driver fatalities in the US is about 9,000 per year, which is much lower than homicides.  So my kids are at greater risk of homicide than automobile fatality.

. . .[/quote]

Only 9,000 huh? That sounds like a low number, comparatively.  Nice try at a deflection.

In reality, in 2012 there were 34,080 motor vehicle fatalities in the US.  But you dodged the question of what you propose to do about that - other than "caring."[/quote]

First of all I said "non driver fatalities", because we were talking about kids, and there are 9,000 of them.  Only a fraction of those are children, and 1/3 of child vehicle deaths are due to not buckling in, which I do.

Second, it's convenient that you deleted the part of my post that said what I do besides caring.  We pass laws outlawing dangerous behavior.  If passing laws is  just "caring", then fine.  Let's care a whole damn bunch about guns.  Problem solved.[/quote]

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