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To: freepatriot32

Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?


2 posted on 02/17/2005 10:32:05 AM PST by sully777 (It's like my momma always said, "Two wrongs don't make a right but two Wrights make an airplane.")
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To: sully777

Seat belts laws are wrong because they restrict personal behavior for no good reason. The only argument for seat belt laws is that theoretically car insurance premiums could be lowered because people will be safer while driving, leading to reduced medical costs. In fantasy land, maybe, but in reality car insurance premiums are set based on what people will accept paying. Clearly car insurance companies aren't suddenly going to reduce prices that people are used to paying because a seat belt law is enacted. It's fine to use some government money to encourage people to wear seat belts, and it's okay, in my opinion, to require auto makers to install seat belts in all cars sold in the US, but making a law to force people to wear them is a step over the line, in my opinion.


10 posted on 02/17/2005 10:45:03 AM PST by munchtipq
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To: sully777

That's a rhetorical question, right?


13 posted on 02/17/2005 10:49:49 AM PST by Time is now (We'll live to see it......Does anyone see it yet?....)
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To: sully777
"Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?"

Indiana Constitution

Bill of Rights. (not to be confused with a bill of privileges)

Section 1.

WE DECLARE, That all people are created equal; that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that all power is inherent in the people;

What part of LIBERTY do you not understand?

And if there is federal constitution has jurisdiction within the boundaries of Indiana, then:

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to DENY OR DISPARAGE others (rights) retained by the people.

Surely the decision to wear a seat belt or not is a right "retained by the people."

28 posted on 02/17/2005 11:02:14 AM PST by tahiti
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To: sully777

I am for seat belts being used however you shoudl do some research on the car seat companies lobbying these senators.


35 posted on 02/17/2005 11:08:28 AM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: sully777
Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?

Do you need the government as a mommy? Most adults don't so I would guess that neither do you.

42 posted on 02/17/2005 11:15:32 AM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Are you cops? FBI" bad guy, "I'm currently unemployed" Tony Almeida of 24)
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To: sully777

I propose seat belt laws on motorcycles, bicycles, skate boards, snow skiis, water skiis, roller skates and ice skates. Also, movie theater seats, baby strollers, beds, and sleeping bags. Warning lables on knives, forks, spoons, hammers, bricks, rock, and limitations on pencil sharpeners....


50 posted on 02/17/2005 11:25:12 AM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: sully777

I hope you read posts 10 and 12 and others.


54 posted on 02/17/2005 11:27:53 AM PST by biblewonk (Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
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To: sully777
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because they are an invasion of personal privacy.. and preparation for worship of the socialist god.. Government..

Its a religious thing.. not all are democrats or RINOs who worship at the trough of a socialist SwineGod.. who demands followers to wallow in taxes and grunt like piglettes at the teat of government largess..

70 posted on 02/17/2005 11:47:32 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: sully777

Because the person injured would be the person who violated the seat belt law. People are too stupid to decide any and all safety issues!


78 posted on 02/17/2005 11:56:34 AM PST by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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To: sully777
"Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?"

Insurance companies should require them. The Government should not be forcing them on us.
90 posted on 02/17/2005 12:06:25 PM PST by jaydubya2
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To: sully777
Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?

They are wrong because of 2 reasons:

1. I as a grown adult do not need the government to tell me I have to wear a seatbelt. FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

2. Our representatives should be more concerned with the terrorists that are trying to kill us and start protecting our borders. FOLLOW THE MONEY!!


91 posted on 02/17/2005 12:07:17 PM PST by unixfox (AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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To: sully777

Because they are.


98 posted on 02/17/2005 12:14:55 PM PST by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: sully777
"Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?"

They're wrong because they are arbitratry and capricious.

Do you see them in schoolbuses with all those PRECIOUS little children?

And why not?

Seatbelt laws are only passed for the reason that they collect more revenue for the greedy government, who couldn't be less interested in actual safety.

102 posted on 02/17/2005 12:28:34 PM PST by nightdriver
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To: sully777

It is my right to choose.


118 posted on 02/17/2005 4:26:02 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: sully777
Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?

Because it's none of your business.

130 posted on 02/18/2005 9:57:10 AM PST by Protagoras (Un-apprehended criminals have no credibility when advocating for the WOD)
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To: sully777
Mandatory seatbelt laws are wrong because...?

Because they are mandatory.

145 posted on 02/22/2005 8:14:17 AM PST by NeoCaveman (http://route-82.blogspot.com)
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