A little bit more on the Click it or Ticket Law....?????

Question

I'm not asking if seat belt laws save lives. Maybe they do. Let's just say that they do - for the sake of the arguement. It's the business of Government forcing individuals to wear this or that for their own ....not someone elses safety. Do you think this is a good thing for Government to be doing? Does this bother you? Government has taken away your ability to decide for yourself if this will save, or kill you, in the event of an accident. What you think doesn't count. Do it; or men with Blue uniforms, Clubs & Guns will force you to be "safe".

Just for the record....I don't like it. I don't like it at all. I don't feel comfortable with the government establishing a "dress code" for driving, or walking. I don't feel comfortable for the Government taking responsibility, for my personal safety, away from me. I see how the Government does things. No thanks. With, "your personal safety" as their excuse.....what can't they force you to do?

Its good to hear the comments and how people get so mad at a simple question. And i believe they are getting mad at the whole thought of us not haveing any rights. Most people that get in wrecks and die from them wear their seat belts. But the news dont want you to know that.

Answer 1

I hear ya screamin' Chris!

I do think seat belts save lives. I have made a habit of buckling up since I started driving over 20 years ago. I ask my passengers to buckle up. Did I think we needed a law on the books for it? No.

Seat belt laws, cell phone laws, helmet laws... how much water can my toilet have? How much water can my shower nozzle flow? Will my incandescent light bulb be illegal?

Don't get me wrong, we do need a semblance of order.

But, at what point do you not want government to control every aspect of our lives?

Answer 2

Since the Click it or Ticket Program:

Since these Mobilizations began:


Child fatalities have dropped by more than 20 percent.
Child restraint use for infants under one has risen from 85 percent to 99 percent, and restraint use among toddlers, ages 1-4, has jumped even more dramatically from 60 to 94 percent.
Adult seat belt use rose from 62 percent to 79 percent - the highest use rate ever - with more than 50 million Americans buckling up.

The problem is not to harass good drivers it is to protect them from crappy ones. Officers get a lot of crap but if you had to scrape people's brains off the pavement or pick up a dead baby thrown from a speeding car you might think differently. The government also has increased strain on the resources and medical community from people injured from not wearing their seatbelts. If you were in an accident would you refuse assistance from the police because you were not wearing your belt? Give them a break and remember that while they are all not saints the majority put their lives on the line EVERYDAY whether the know the person they are helping or not!

Answer 3

Do you have the guts to tell the other passengers in your car to put on their seatbelts because you don't want to be hit by hundreds of pounds of flesh when you don't hit the inside of the car?
If the government doesn't do it (and they have the enforcement people out on the street), then the insurance companies do it with a condition in the car and medical policies that reads like this: "If you are involved in an accident and you are not wearing a seat belt, then your medical coverage will not apply and you will not be treated by any hospital unless you can put down the full cash amount of treatment in advance - no welfare, no courtesy, no credit cards."
There is, by the way, a very nice ad by the idiot governor of New Jersey and was a passenger in an SUV driven by a state cop who crashed while not wearing a seat belt and broke all kinds of things and spent lots of days in ICU. After saying "buckle your belt" he hobbles off on crutches.

Answer 4

If you rolled a car 7 times without a belt and lived to tell about it, your'e one of the very lucky few. It's said that God looks after fools and little children. Which one are you?

I personally don't give a rats @$$ if you turn yourself into hamburger out on the highway without a seatbelt. I concede your right to kill or maim yourself any way that you care to.

What I DO give a sh!t about is MY tax and insurance $$$ going to pay for YOUR right to self-destruct. That bugs the hell out of me. If you're willing to waive any and all insurance or state funded medical treatment following any accident in which you weren't wearing a seatbelt and if you are willing to waive any state or insurance funded support for your family should you bite the big one while not wearing a belt, then I'm quite willing to change the law and let you self-destruct at will.

Oh yeah, one more thing. There occasionally are accidents where a proximate cause of the accident was where the driver or a passenger failed to wear a belt. I was in one many years ago in TX and was nearly killed. Along with your waiver above, you're going to have to provide unlimited liability for any such accident that you might cause. I don't ever want to go through that exercise again -- that bone head that nearly killed me had minimum liability, it didn't cover my losses.

You are right about one thing. It IS about the money. MY money, my friend! If unbelted occupants were simply left on the side of the road to fend for themselves, insurance premiums would drop 30% or more. And so would the cost of running the local ambulance service (paid for by my tax dollars.) You willing to accept that as a condition of not using a belt? Somebody might, but I'll bet that 95% of the non-users will NOT be willing to accept such conditions. Are you a 5%'er?

Answer 5

You have a point, however there are people out there who not only don't care about their own personal safety, they also don't care about the safety of others and this is why we have laws that protect us from people who just don't care. Did you know that if your backseat passengers aren't buckled in and you get into a head on collision, those people become missiles that will hit and crush anything in front of them? Guess not. I would rather err on the side of caution. The law is there to protect you and those around you, just like the speed limit laws. Driving is not a right, it's a privilege.

Answer 6

Bottom line, like the saying goes, "Follow the money!"
In California, anyways, the seatbelt law got passed because the insurance industry lined the proper pockets (They have the best politicians money can buy!), and got the law passed.
They figure this saves THEM money on injury pay outs, which is MUCH more important than any personal liberties someone has.

Answer 7

Ok listen its really simple ok, are you listening?Ok ready JUST BUCKLE THE DAMN SEATBELT GOD!!! The governments not going to care what you think If they did do you think there would be a war?The police arent gonna care what you think eighter so instead of being a smart mouth just buckle the freakin seatbelt whats it gonna do strangle you?Avoid the ticket and just freakin click it

Answer 8

I say let Darwin win...

But... the idiots who don't wear the belts might just get injured (rather than dead, which would be fine) and have to go on welfare the rest of thier lives... and I don't want to pay thier medical bills with my taxes.

So... we need the seatbelt law to save on welfare, social security, medicare and medicaid.