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Danzig, this is exactly the government folks in those cities and states have elected: very conservative, little to no government regulation.

That's what these folks WANT - no government rules and regs ordering them to do things to protect their homes and lives.

You can't have the government forcing people to purchase sprinkler systems or insurance.

Of course, that endangers the lives of firefighters when their homes catch fire, but those firefighter guys are just union thugs, living off the government teat, undeserving of salary, pension or benefits. Those firefighter guys need to be fired from the government and privatized anyways.

Again, this is exactly the scenario the voting public has chosen for themselves in those cities and states. Why you are blaming "pols and lobbyists" is beyond me. Pols and lobbyists don't arise out of nothing to gain power. Those are the "pol's and lobbyists" the citizens chose to run things.

The deaths of firefighters and fellow citizens ... well, Atlas Shrugged And Didn't Care - Every Man For Himself

Firefighters reported more than 1,300 incidents from 2006 to 2010 in which lightweight construction hurt their ability to suppress fires in single-family or multifamily homes, according to a Reuters analysis of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Fire Incident Reporting System, the nation's largest fire database. At least 90 percent of those homes did not have sprinklers installed. Twenty civilians were killed and at least 260 firefighters and civilians were injured in those fires.

An additional Reuters review of federal and local firefighter fatality investigations found at least nine firefighters killed since 2000 while battling residential lightweight construction fires.