No it is not a law enacted for a good reason. If our laws intent is to save lives then they would not allow people to drive since nearly 50k a year die in cars. They would not allow people to over eat etc. Kids drowning in boating mishaps might make the top 10,000 reasons kids die list.Their parents are more dangerous but you do not need a licsense to parent.

"If it costs us less financially and emotionally to "over-react" with life saving extra body armor, we should be doing it."

Agreed but lets not allow people to play politics or blow it out of proportion on either side of the isle. It's my only point in this whole discussion.