Most of us can look back and note how different things were back when we were growing up than they are now. We live in a cautious world, teeming with negligence lawsuits, tougher regulations for manufacturers, and precautionary recalls. Seatbelt laws are common. Diving boards have been outlawed in several states. Children now have to be strapped into child car seats until they’re seven years old in some states.
Those are not my memories of growing up. My cousins and I used to bounce around in the back of our grandfather’s pick up truck as he navigated down dirt roads in the summer. Our playground equipment consisted of six-foot-high monkey bars and jungle gyms over gravel and dirt. We never wore our seatbelts in the backseat, and we’d never even heard of airbags. Vehicle safety in the late 70s was little more than the good advice to never buy a Pinto because “they blow up if someone rear-ends you.”
Things are much different now.
New Hampshire is the only state in the U.S. that does not enforce a primary or secondary seat belt law (primary seat belt laws allow drivers to be pulled over and ticketed for no offense other than not...
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