>>>it makes no sense whatsoever to be belted in a5,000 pound hummer and be allowed to ride your harley, with your 10 year old daughter hanging on to you 70 miles per hour on the freeway without a helmet......pathetic<<<<
I said that?? Gee. You don’t read between the lines do you?
A grown person should have the right to decide whether he straps himself to his hummer or whether he wears a helmet on his motorcycle.But, of course others who do not ride have the right to decide that for him. That’s the law.
That’s pathetic.By the way helmet laws as well as seat belt laws were forced on the public by the insurance lobby by the fed witholding federal highway funds, and by people who didn’t mind their own business. Did anyone’s insurance go down after the seat belt laws were passed? No.
We don’t stop people from parachuting, jumping off bridges with bungy cords, riding horse’s without helmets,climbing mountains, ski’ing, or many other dangerous acts, but we think it is our right to tell them what to do in their own automobile. People make bad decision all their lives, but it is their right to make those decisions.
It’s an old argument and those who feel they have the right to tell other’s how to live always use the excuse that they have to help pay the insurance for those who decide to place themslves in jeopardy,but that is a bogus argument. Mostly they just wish to enforce their own view on others.
Kids?? That’s another story entirely.
Yet.
said that?? Gee. You don’t read between the lines do you
of course I read between the lines....Sarcasm is a wonderful way to get one’s point across and my comparison between a law requiring being belted in a Hummer, and riding freely on a Harley was just that. I couldn’t agree with you more that government has far overstepped its’ authority.....But...I didn’t vote for the idiots who passed these asinine regulations. That having been said, seat belts and air bags save lives.....helmets would too, I just don’t appreciate the government protecting me from myself.