According to the law, you DO NOT have that right. People have completely forgotten that a driver's license grants a PRIVILEGE. You do not have the RIGHT to drive.

 

Thats weird, i ride by cops while on the phone all the time in Monroe and they dont say anything.

 

I always wear my seatbelt. I don't think it should be a law. Let the stupid people not wear their seatbelts. Natural selection dude...

 

 

Your right, driving is a priviledge. I'm not taking about driving. Not wearing my seat belt is a right that the government is taking away...I guess we'll just add it to the list.

 

It's been a law for years - they are just tightening up the enforcement.

 

If they are the end all be all, and save you like they try to pass them off as doing. Then why do trucks built before they were standard equipment not have to have them? If they make such a huge difference why not deny the inspection sticker unless the vehicle is retrofitted for them? Why is it that we will let a School bus full of CHILDREN drive down the road and none of them have seat belts on? I will tell you why, because its a bull**** law that was put in place to create revenue for the state.

 

Ding Ding Ding!! We have a winner!! If you don't want to play by the rules, then you pay the penalty. I don't remember the country was founded on the principal of Anarchy like some you seem to think. Yes, many freedoms are guaranteed, but not the freedom to just whatever the hell you want, when you want, where you want.

Why don't you go shoot up some heroin and run naked down Main Street while you're at it?

- NCSU

 

Here's the bottom line. There are instances where a seatbelt can do more harm than good. However the odds are the seatbelts are going to help. But by making people wear them it is taking our personal choice away to play odds. If someone wants become a windshield cannon who are they really hurting besides themselves? I don't think this choice could anyway be attributed to Anarchy.

We are capable beings able to make choices...this choice only affects the person making it.

Like I said I always wear my belt because I choose to not because the government tells me I have to. I just think it should be a person’s choice.

I have never fully understood why there are no seatbelts on school buses, heck there are not even any head rests. I remember a year or 2 ago they tried to pass a law to retrofit them on all of our local buses but for 2 reasons it didn't pass. 1. Not enough money. 2. No substantial data that showed seatbelts would help (solve 1 problem and create another). They were afraid of students become trapped to easily.

 

I think up until this year in Missouri, if you had the farm sticker on your truck's plate you didn't have to wear a seatbelt. Now you have to.

 

I look at it this way. Government enforces seat belt use because if they didn't, someone would get killed not wearing a seatbelt, and the family, friends, someone would sue the government for not stepping in.

Personally I don't give a crap if you wear yours or not. My job has taught me time and time again that they work. I always wear mine and everyone who rides with me is required to as well.

For the rest of you who don't want to wear seat belts that's fine. It really is a personal choice. Just don't get all pissy when someone you know goes flying out of a rolling car and killed because the seat belt "was uncomfortable"

Zaairman said it best,

 

My previous vehicle was a 96 full sized Bronco. It didn't have the dinger for the seatbelt. I very rarely wore it. The only time I would wear one is when I was with the wife and kids in her van. And the wife would still have to say something to me every time. I'm 42. We never wore seatbelts as kids. In fact, I remember sleeping in the rear window or laying in the frontseat, head on Mom's lap, feet on Dad's. It just carried over to when I started driving. I never could get comfortable with it on. Since buying this 06 with the dinger it's the best thing I could have done. It makes me wear my seatbelt (good thing). Even when we take the wife's van I automatically put my seatbelt on now. It's become habit.

I also don't think it should be a law for those over 18. Then again, I don't think they should have helmet laws either.

 

And we wonder why our insurance premiums are so high...

 

There are no helmet laws in Illinois...

 

Or in Kansas. But there is in MO, correct?