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Seatbelts aren’t the end-all be-all.

I’m just reacting because I’m sick of all the fascist laws making us wear seatbelts - and tired of how the liberal fascists have made even conservatives think it’s “just the right thing to do” to force people to wear them or get molested and fined.

The other week I fleetingly heard a news story on our local radio. Unfortunately I don’t recall just what all happened and to whom (I think it was someone rather VIP, like a cop or sheriff). However, the important part was that VIP was wearing his seatbelt when he got into some kind of rollover or something. Some 2 people (NOT EMTs) had to get him out of his seatbelt (he couldn’t - he was passed out) to get him out of the car before it blew up or further fell (can’t recall which - of course no more reports about it). Luckily they were able to. That’s just 1 more difficulty though that has to be cleared before getting to safety.

What, it takes two seconds to cut the seat belt if it’s in the way.

The times that a seat belt will be a hindrance can be counted on the hands and feet. Thousands of lives are saved by those seat belts.

It’s possible that his broken ribs were caused by being too close to the air bag when it went off because the seat belt tensioner which pulls you away first didn’t work because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

I ran into a pole at 20 mph (dead stop, the pole was concrete, I ended up 12 inches back from it in recoil), and suffered nothing more than bruises from where the seat belt yanked me back (I have explosive tensioners). My sythentic jacket had melt marks from where the belt slid while being pulled. The bag also went off.

I was leaning forward at the time because the sun had just struck my car and I was foolishly wiping some dirt off the windshield to cut down the glare.

I’m pretty sure that if the seat belt hadn’t yanked me back, I would have broken my ribs from leaning up against the air bag when it went off.

“I’m just reacting because I’m sick of all the fascist laws making us wear seatbelts - and tired of how the liberal fascists have made even conservatives think it’s “just the right thing to do” to force people to wear them or get molested and fined.”

I am not ‘forced’ to wear a seatbelt. I do so because I am smart enough to see and understand the huge benefit derived by doing so. I also like the comfort, yes comfort, from being partially restricted.

Also, I do not want to be a paraplegic which so often happens to people who don’t wear the belt. Tremendous burden on everyone. Corzine may have been lucky but I will bet big bucks that he would have suffered far less serious injuries had he been wearing.

The rebel in your handle explains a lot. Good luck to you and your survivors.