Is it your contention that the number of heat related deaths from kids left in hot cars is => the number who would die if unsecured?
Nope. Just that it is an easily foreseeable consequence. Those who push for making kiddo car seats mandatory should have it shoved in their faces at every opportunity.
Were I in charge, I would keep the use of car safety seats 100%
voluntary.
1. Those who do so of their own accord are probably less likely to leave a kiddo to die horribly from cooking in a hot car.
2. Kiddo car seat laws are yet another law that tends to be enforced more on solid citizen types than illegals or the underclass.
3. Laws make criminals out of folks whose autos can not accommodate the seats and laws.
4. The laws, when combined with "no kids in the front seat" laws, make one choose between maximizing kiddo safety and following the law.