re: is there a more communistic law than the "seat belt" law?

Taxing my wages!!!

Stick to driving on paved surfaces for the rest of your life. Coon asses and necks know the hunting and fishing spots are not on pristine highways.

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You are totally missing the point. It's a risk I am willing to take. So is smoking. So is being obese. Why should it be against the law?

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I don't see how bringing up your degrees and driving record is a case for or against this.

Should it be against the law? I suppose not, although it would be extremely dense to take to the streets not wearing a seat belt just because you can.

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I was responding to the point that anyone against SB laws must be stupid.

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Have to correct you Zach, but he actually said

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The issue is there anybody in 2014 so stupid not to wear seat belts?

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Minor difference, but I know why you claimed the degrees

Serious question, if seat belt laws are mandatory how are motorcycles even allowed on public roads. Haven't some/most states done away with helmet laws also?

I can't imagine with a state would not have a helmet law in 2014. Just as I can't see how a state cannot ban texting while driving, cell phone usage while driving or more amazing to me, no smoking in restaurants.

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Don't laugh This is how TD discussions are supposed to go back and forth.

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It should, but then you have someone from the extreme right or left throw out something that is so asinine and untruthful that it derails everything and turns it into a shouting match.

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not wearing a seatbelt doesn't affect any other motorists but yourself.

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That is not necessarily true. It's pretty easy to get thrown around the inside of a vehicle if your not strapped in. A glancing blow off of a guardrail or another vehicle is a good example. If your strapped in, you can still bring the vehicle to a stop. If you're not strapped in, your vehicle can continue on uncontrolled, possibly crossing a yellow line or unnecessarily plowing into whatever.

I was replying to the notion that the only person who could possibly be injured by the failure to wear a seatbelt is the driver themself. I made no other declaration.

I am against most anything that infringes upon personal freedom...but this is not one of them.

First, driving a vehicle on a publicly owned roadway is not a right or a liberty granted to you by the constitution. It is a privilege earned and licensed. It can be revoked. When you agree to the terms of this privilege, you agree to the rules regulating the act of operating a vehicle on public roadways.

No liberties are infringed on by seatbelt laws. In fact, many innocent lives are saved by requiring that children of ignorant parents be safely restrained as those children would most likely not be buckled in without threat of monetary penalty.

If one wishes to drive without a seatbelt buckled, they have the option of going to Bubba's farm and driving along dirt roads to their hearts delight...if Bubba so allows. Or buy a large tract of private property themselves.