"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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wrote:

Fire alarms - if I go off my brain in the mall, can I pull out my fire
alarm and kill people with it. No. A gun would be better.
Seat belts - they have been compulsory here since the 1970's. Rate of
fatal car crashes has declined by 50% per head of population. I
suppose I could unbolt the seat belt from my car and ram it down
someones throat and so kill them....but a gun would be better.


It sounds like you have severe anger issues, always describing ways
that you can kill people.

Unlike the people who discuss caliber and muzzle velocity in terms of
terminal ballistics in, oh, say, goats. d8-)


Agreed - and congratulations on surviving the car crash and the
shootdowns. I havent been shot down, but a seatbelt enabled me to
survive a horrific car crash.


And I survived a head on collision, only because I had taken off my
seat belt a few minutes earlier. The police who arrived on the scene
wanted to know where the driver's body was. They were stunned that
they
were talking to the driver and told me several times that I was
blessed,
and had survived ONLY because I removed the seat belt.

You are nutz if you think that was a smart thing to do. You're nutz and
lucky to the tune of 49:1. If you don't believe that, you need some
better
reading material. You may be blessed; I'd have no way to tell. But one
thing
is su you should have headed for the nearest horse track and bet the
farm. That was your lucky day.

A seat belt saved my life in 1971. It also kept me out of the hospital.
The
other guy (no seat belt, heavier car, lots more padding -- I was in a
1967
Ford Bronco) spent months recovering from a ruptured spleen and needed
multiple plastic surgeries before they'd let him sit in a church pew
without
a bag over his head.

And for every one of you, there are 49 of me. Do you play Russian
roulette,
too?


Ed, that was the only time I EVER drove that truck without wearing my
seat belt.

OK, then you're not nutz. g I thought you were suggesting that it's smart
not to wear a seat belt.

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Ed Huntress