RashyNullPlanet

Last Saturday I was utterly shocked to learn that my dad cut off the tips of two fingers on a table saw. My dad is Mr. Safety. He survived more than 30 years working on elevators, on the edge of open shafts, and near huge machinery, with some injuries, but nothing like this.

I heard about SawStop saws a while ago. A saw like that would have prevented my dad from losing the tips of his fingers.

I’ve done some more reading about SawStop saws since last Saturday, and came across this:

In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, Gass recenlty visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission outside Washington D.C.

SawStop sure has a great way to prevent injuries. I wish my dad had been using a SawStop saw last Saturday, but there is no way that I would ever use the club of government to bludgeon anyone into submission to some product of mine.

Steven Gass makes a great product, based on great intentions, but using government coercion to compel people to use anything is never right, no matter how great the product or intentions.