Leon wrote:
"I really hate spam." wrote in message
...

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:47:56 GMT, "Leon"
wrote:

Leon, you don't seem to see a very important distinction between these
things and Sawstop. All of these government mandates, along with
required auto liability insurance, act to prevent other people from
hurting me. Water quality mandates prevent my city from mishandling
water and making me sick, electrical codes prevent the electrician
from doing substandard work in my home and burning down my house, and
liability insurance prevents everybody from legally driving without
making sure that they have some way to compensate me if they hurt me
while driving improperly. Sawstop is not at all similar...it is a
device meant to save me only from me.


Try to think not only of your self in this instance and think of a fellow
wood worker that works for a living in a company owned small shop using a
TS.... Long hours of working with the saw.... the Saw Stop prevents an
injury. I assure you he will be happy that the government mandated this
feature because It was not his saw or his equipment. I assure you the
company is also happy that they have this type of saw in their shop after
the first incident.




That's fine. He can damned well buy the device if he wants to.

But if he has no choice, then it's the government going Nanny State
that's causing that.

I can tell you what sort of governments require people to do certain
mandatory things that free people would balk at, and they're socialist
governments.

I don't want to see us go there.


As for thinking of ourselves, we all do, all the time. Everybody
else is of secondary importance to each of us, with the possible
exceptions of our own closest family members.

I won't sacrifice any freedoms for security.

CJ