Secular Café: Why does the US tolerate the carnage?

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Why does the US tolerate the carnage? Sep 25th 2012, 22:09 The carnage referenced in the title is of course the nation in question's leading cause of death in children and young adults--car accidents. Quote: President Bill Clinton's biological father died after being ejected in a car crash in the 1940s. As a teenage driver in the 1960s, Laura Bush struck and killed a family neighbor in a crash. President Barack Obama's father died in a car wreck in 1982. In 1972, Vice President (then a U.S. senator) Joe Biden's wife and infant child were killed in a collision. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, as a young Mormon missionary, was severely injured in a collision in France that killed another passenger. These experiences mirror those of millions of Americans, yet they have failed to prod the nation's policy leaders into aggressive action to stem the carnage. Despite more than 30,000 deaths and more than 2.2 million crash injuries per year, highway safety has largely fallen off the political radar screen... Perhaps there is a reason this issue is ignored; I have it on good authority that it is an unnecessary and pointless red herring.

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