No seatbelt law for Georgia.....

[tmwnn88]

Or better yet, when person flies out of the car and dies, there is less work to be done at the scene. No extrication, no backboarding, no working the patient, no helicopter landing and stopping traffic for over an hour....

Go less than 40 mph, hit something. Now go less than 40mph without the seatbelt and hit something. Which event will most likely end with paramedics involved? A simple low speed accident where the person can walk away can be completely different when the seatbelt is not worn.

Using your logic we should stop kids from throwing baseballs, or playing in general. And ban golfers with more than a 20pt handicap from courses.....

Um no. Taking my argument to the extreme to try to prove a point is not a very good debating skill. I hate when the argument of safety is used to limit fun activities to a point where it becomes ridiculous, and I am always being told ''we cant allow this for legal safety reasons''. But baseball and driving on a public road are not the same.

The real solution to reducing road fatalities in this country is the simple glaringly obvious one that NHTSA refuses to acknowledge. DRIVER EDUCATION!!!

Agreed....it is waaaaay to damn easy to get a drivers license and get behind the wheel of 3 tons of steel that can reach speeds of over 100 mph.

See I agree with you in the sense that I am all for personal responsibility, specially in a country where safety labels are attached to nearly everything to protect people from sheer stupidity and where you can sue mcdonalds for being a fat ass. But unless you are driving at your own personal track, what you do on the road or with your car is not only your concern, its the concern of everyone else around you. :bigthumbu

 

[Sean Love]

Go less than 40 mph, hit something. Now go less than 40mph without the seatbelt and hit something. Which event will most likely end with paramedics involved? A simple low speed accident where the person can walk away can be completely different when the seatbelt is not worn.

Dude, before you continue any further get this concept through your head: Paramedics/EMT's/Firefighters, are paid in shifts, so it doesn't matter. I used to work for an ambulance company. My paycheck was the same regardless of whether I ran 10 calls in 12hours or whether I sat in the truck doing Sudoku for 12 hours!

Um no. Taking my argument to the extreme to try to prove a point is not a very good debating skill.

I took it to no extreme, I simply used an example where personal freedom is respected and there isn't an expected restriction. There is no debate except for your misunderstanding of my point and your further extrapolation off of that falacy.

But baseball and driving on a public road are not the same.

And who said they were?? Not me. How did wearing a seatbelt in your mind turn into operating a motor vehicle??

"The right to swing your fist ends at the tip of another man's nose" is how laws should apply, and In most cases do in a free society.

Your way of seeing it should also apply to these other things that contribute to distraction and the inability to control a car:
-Driving with reclined seats
-Operating the radio
-Operating the AC
-Airbags that in some cases scare, incapacitate the driver, and knock your hands from the wheel

But unless you are driving at your own personal track, what you do on the road or with your car is not only your concern, its the concern of everyone else around you. :bigthumbu

I wasn't talking about how you operate your vehicle on the road, I was talking about how you wear personal safety equipment.

The cost of living in a free society is that people have the freedom to be stupid. But the responsibility of a free society should be to educate and certify the people to prevent such stupidity from harming others.

In the United States by and large, authorities choose to skip the eduction part and simply remove and/or tax(fine) certain freedoms. THAT is absolute fact!