quote:Originally posted by Cuvee:
What about the guy with no Ins., wrecks his car and is badly hurt (not wearing a seat belt) we the people pay! If the guy was wearing a seat belts chances are he may not be as hurt? thus costing we the people less money to fix his sorry ass!
That sounds good in theory but I think there is so much more to the fight of seatbelt laws.
One is the law was pressed and flatly voted down. Latter the law was snuck in and pushed through.
When it did pass they said "It's ok, we are just going to write warnings no tickets"
Then they said, "well no big deal we are just going to ticket if your stopped for another reason".
Then one day with no announcement they changed it so they can pull you over just for a seatbelt violation and by then people had given up fighting it.
It left a very sore taste in people mouth. It doesn't feel like laws of a free society. Laws are a balance of what is agreed upon by those in society as neccesary or needed. This was pushed through in a more "communist method". People feel a severe loss of freedom.
Freedom isn't free. The ability to make choices for one self, the ability to make the decision to drive from burger king across the street to the movie theater without being pulled over because the cops would like to score an easy ticket or because they don't like the way you look.
It was politically motivated to the brainless PC feel good movement which gives the cops another way of pulling people over because they want to. I was once pulled over for doing 10 over on a dark night in an area where the speed limit is way under marked. I took my belt off to get my wallet out to get my drivers license. The cop was going to write me a seat belt violation.
It truly pisses me off because NOTHING is done to help stop the poor and dangerous driving. You always see battles on the expressway and continuous dissreguard for every law, rule and piece of common sense in driving yet they enact this law to make people "Feel good" about what they do.
Freedom isn't free and the risk is worth the freedom and the ability for people to be allowed to make their own decisions about what they do some times.