Biden Compares Gun Control to Car Air Bags: ´We´re Saving Lives´

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday compared restrictions on guns to auto safety regulations such as air bags, by saying neither the gun nor the auto industries wanted regulations to save lives. “Well they didn’t want to have air bags. Well, guess what? We have air bags. We’re saving lives,” Biden told reporters before a meeting with several stakeholders on the gun-control issue, as he plans to craft a set of proposals for President Barack Obama by Tuesday, Jan. 15. The proposals are expected to include a renewed ban on so-called assault weapons, and beefed-up background checks.

If airbags save lives, why are car owners told not to put children under 12 in the front seats of their cars. Also why is it next to impossible to get an override switch installed to turn off the airbags?

It's not just children but includes adults of short stature that are injured by deploying air bags. I've always wondered what would happen to a guy smoking a pipe?

Then there is the issue of an accidental deployment because of a faulty sensor. If the bag blew in your face as you were driving on the expressway next to a gasoline tanker or a school bus, there would be an accident, no doubt. Do you think a subsequent investigation would find fault with the "active safety equipment" or would it be called "driver error"?

The nasty part of this is we will never know if the system failed or the driver was distracted 'cuz the "black box" will faithfully record that the air bag deployed leaving no clue as to why it did.

Any thing mechanical or electronic, made by man can be expected to fail sometime. Space shuttles, airliners, smoke alarms, TV sets, burglar alarm systems, cell phones, the list is endless. Nothing is 100% reliable except Murphy's Law.

I'd rather drive with a five point racing seat harness and a roll bar.

Regards,
GtG

Actually, the air bag industry WANTED air bags.

Saying the Auto industry didn’t want Air bags would be like saying the Private Security Protection industry doesn’t want their handguns banned.

Anyway, parts of the auto industry loved air bags. It was a discriminator; some would have them, some wouldn’t, and the consumer would be able to choose.

It was the consumers that didn’t want air bags, but the government forced them on us.

Many lives have been saved. Some have died because of the air bags. Under the Biden, rule, since some people are killed by air bags, we should ban them, “if we can save just one life”.

“That’s one more thing that reinforces the perception/fact that you are indeed a buffoon, Joe. “

That’s an affront to all buffoons. Obama is a stupid criminal. Biden is simply stupid. I am sure that somewhere he’s packing a drool cup!

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