if children will be legally required to wear helmets when sledding then when shouldnt they be wearing a helmet? lets face it, there are head banging dangers everywhere. a trip and fall can happen anywhere around the house, so lets helmet kids up while indoors. this is especially true in the bathroom, the most dangerous room in the house. mandatory helmets inside, especially at bath time. also, a kid can bump their head if they fall out of bed, so its time for kids to sleep with helmets on. the outdoors is super dangerous even when sledding is not involved. so its obvious children should be helmeted whenever they leave the house too. when i was young only certain special kids wore helmets all the time, but why should they be the only safe ones? helmets for all kids all the time! lets just make a blanket law that when indoors or outdoors a helmet must be worn by anyone under 18 years of age.
theyre doing it right:
in all seriousness, if the government was truly concerned about children there are many other steps to take to protect them before we start worrying about sledding. one million to be exact, i counted. including "toddlers and tiaras" on TLC. and why isnt it child abuse when a parent smokes around their child and that child is forced to breathe in the second hand smoke? just wondering.
annual deaths by second hand smoke: 53,800 http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=13
annual deaths from sledding: ?, a few at most. i couldnt find anything on the google
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