M&M,
How much does a set of airbags and seat belts cost? They are in every new car on the road today. Compare that to the cost of a sprinkler system and total house cost (and that doesn't even figure in the contents in the house)......
You can be driving down the road at the posted speed limit and have a tire failiure, cross the center line and into an oncoming car. Hopefully the airbags and seat betls gives you that last line of defense. Same thing for house fires. Breakers can fail, connections in the walls overheat, lightening, something in an appliance fails, or any number of items that even the most prudent person would not be able to prevent. You can't base the number soley on fatalities as property damage factor into it as well.
You appear to have taken a stance that "all government regulation is bad." I say that's not the case and would even say there is a high degree of likeliehood that you benefit somewhere in your life from "the government" It's not an all or nothing argument as you seem to want to categorize sprinklers.
In the end, they will be standard.
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