It's the LAW!

Effective next month, every private home in Wisconsin MUST have multiple CO detectors in place, or ELSE - nothing. The law has no teeth.

Yet.

Once a law is on the books, it's trivial for our "public servants" to pass a modifier, quietly, that makes it a felony to not comply, or provide for a huge fine and unannounced "inspections" to assure compliance. Case in point, Illinois' seat belt laws - once only enforced after a legitimate traffic stop, now a primary reason TO stop you - and a nice income source for the Demonrats who run the asylum down there.

I hate the phrase "there oughtta be a law!", but perhaps we ought to encourage a few amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution - one could be "no law that proposes to force people to act safely in their private lives shall be proposed, and any existing law that forces people to act safely or purchase anything to promote personal safety shall be null and void at the date of adoption of this amendment"...

It could be called "The Darwin Amendment". One very bad thing governments have done for the human race is to prevent Darwin's theories from being proven more widely by "nanny state" laws.

If the gov't wants to encourage safety, perhaps they could steal less from us as "taxes", and perhaps insurance companies could offer lower rates to people who show they have incorporated these safety devices on their own. I in no way am proposing the gov't to legislate insurance discounts or anything else - they ought to keep their noses out of private lives. The only public safety issues they legitimately have are things like maintaining public roads and such so as to minimize dangers to the public. They sure dropped the ball on traffic roundabouts...