i think this is a great campaign...it keeps my car insurance down because my premiums go up every time a stupid person decides to drive down the road with out a seatbelt and hit another car and die. this has been around for about a year now in california and it has worked well. i have yet to get a ticket because im not stupid enough to drive without a seatbelt...its equivalent to bungee jumping without a cord...common sense people.
Let's compare the societal costs imposed by seatbeltless driving, and, say...illegal immigration, which, for some odd reason, government seems less eager to crack down on.
Any law that saves money is, by definition, a good law.
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Actually, I logged over half a million miles without a seat belt. How many bungee jumps would one survive without a cord?
how we ever lived through life before seat belts is beyond me.we even rode in the back of pickups.yes we were daredevils.
"i think this is a great campaign...it keeps my car insurance down because my premiums go up every time a stupid person decides to drive down the road with out a seatbelt and hit another car and die. this has been around for about a year now in california and it has worked well. i have yet to get a ticket because im not stupid enough to drive without a seatbelt...its equivalent to bungee jumping without a cord...common sense people."
Most Communist Socialists do think it's a good idea.
Speaking of common sense, there's a book I recommend you read. It's called "Uncommon Sense" Probably written by a person you would loath.
His name was Thomas Paine.
Ok then its been around for about a year in cali great. Are you paying less for auto insurance nowthen you were 1 year ago?
They've had this as a law in PA for a few years now I believe...and insurance premiums haven't budged.
Not wearing your seatbelt is the equivilant to riding a motorcycle without a helmet, the only difference in PA is that at the same time they made it law to have to wear you seatbelt they erased the law that you had to wear a helmet on a motorcycle.
Brilliant.
I think you miss the entire point. It may be common sense, it may benefit you, it may benefit others. But to enforce this law upon everyone "for the common good" is immoral and evil. Hey, if the government mandated healthy lifestyles, as Mr. Williams points out, for the "common good" of us all, is it a good idea? Hey, someone else, in a speech in California no less, said a year or so ago, that she may just have to raise everyone's taxes for the "common good."
Most wrecks are caused by incompetent drivers; why would you want to give them a second chance?
Comrade! We have yet another successful example of the community education programs!
And I think there are some people who are so stupid that they cannot figure out the purpose of Shift Key.
'common sense'
The vast majority have never had the oppurtunity to work on an impaled, crushed, eviscerated, dismembered human in a medical setting. It's not fun.
If you choose not to be belted, so be it. But there should be a disclaimer clause on your insurance that they will cover NOTHING when you go thru the Veg-O-Matic.
of course I probably wouldn't even need my seat belt if they caught all the drunk drivers and speeders (which by the way is already illegal)and of course here in the bluest of blue states Massachuestts you might aslo get hit by an illegal immigrant with a state issued drivers license
...you are the perfect example of a DUmmy... It is anathema to real conservative!. Seat belts make sense, but not its nothing to be enforced by laws or regulations! I hope you save enough to educate yourself on constitutional principles!
however, let's be honest here......the police use such ruses to claim millions in fines for their departments.....the cops could care less if you die in an accident, but the thought of all that easy money......just waiting there....
and what better things could the cops do really?.....I mean, its not like drug abuse, child molestation, rape or murder are really that BIG of a problem, are they?....../sarcasm/
Here in SC if your car has a lap and a shoulder belt, and you are wearing one without the other, you will get ticketed.
And, they have checkpoints and stop every car looking for ticketable offenses.
And, you are wrong about it being dangerous as bungee jumping, that's just silly. In fact, lap belts can be very dangerous for some folks depending on their size and how it fits (especially women).
The cops spend inordinate time as revenue generators for the city/state/county rather than out patrolling neighborhoods deterring crime.
I agree fully
I've had my car broken into 8 times in the last year, and I live in a neighborhood that looks like the set of Leave it to Beaver (which is probably why they pick our neighborhood).
In WA state, you practically get a handshake for stealing a car, yet I'm watching expensive ads on TV warning me to wear my seatbelt?
How about an ad that says, "Touch my car one more time and I'll cut your head off and put it on a pike outside of city hall."
Oh, and by the way I do agree that with up to 20 million illegals here and 1000's pouring across our southern border, the entire campaign is absurd. Let's enforce laws on people who are basically already law abiding, is what in effect they are saying.