Seat belts

I think that getting rid of that law is a good idea and here is my reasoning. Smart people will still wear their seatbelts. Not so bright or careless people will not wear their seatbelts. Accidents do happen. Smart people will have a higher rate of survival. So who wins? Society of course.

What kind of world is it where people can't even choose to put themselves at risk? I know seatbelts save lives, but it should be your choice to wear them or not. Dan

I agree with you! IT is a major gripe I have. While I do wear a seat belt and insist my family does the same... even before it was law. I absolutely do not believe that it should be mandatory by law. In this country where someone can willfully abort their young, hire a doctor to help end the life of a sick or ailing family member etc etc they enforce that one must wear a seat belt. where is the continuity. whom do you injure by not putting your belt on - ?

I believe that they just want us to wear seatbelts for protection just incase you have an accident or so. Better be safe than sorry.

I agree wholeheartedly, no one should be forced to wear seat belts You'll only be horribly mangled in the wreckage of your car, but at least you won't be able to complain about seat belt laws anymore

If your pregnant you should wrap the lap belt around 1 knee so that the baby wont get hurt, but it will probably break your hip. But it's well worth it to save your baby's whole life! anyways yes they really need to come out with some water safe seat belts, but other than that i know for a fact that the statistics show that seat belts save more lives than they kill. now if you want to talk about your rights to freedom you should be worried about all of the pesticides, chemicals, and steroids that they are putting in foods now and making special foods the label "organic" including baby foods! and telling those killers to stop putting that stuff in everyones food now that they've proven that it kills people and gives them cancer, so that even the poor babies will be able to live!!!!!!! Good topic. Jess.

A seatbelt is what ended up killing my mothers friends son. He rolled his vehicle and it landed in a drainage ditch full of water. The seatbelt got stuck and would not come off so he ended up drowning in just a few feet of water. His mother refused to wear a seatbelt and told every cop that pulled her over her story and she absoluetly would not wear one.

Yes but surely more people are killed through not wearing one than those who are? Maybe people should have the choice wether or not to wear it but it would increase the risk of a larger more serious injury and personally im not willing to put myself in that sort of risk factor. The law is there for a reason because seat belts save more lives than they kill!