Do gun owners wear seatbelts?

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Like others have said, I too started wearing a seat belt before the government told me to, when I first started driving. It's a good idea, but not all good ideas ought to become laws. I want the government out of my car as much as many want it out if our bedrooms and doctor's offices.

I wonder where the candidates running for office would stand on repealing seat belt laws?

Oh, and I usually carry a gun on my other belt....the one the government (and consideration to my fellow man) doesn't make me wear

 

[jve153]

i carry, i also wear a seatbelt, both for the same reason. i have never been in a shootout thank God, but i have been in multiple accidents where the seatbelt did me some good. i have been tboned twice and spun around at least 180 both times, no injuries. i was driving like a jacka** last august and lost control of the car doing about 90 on a corner, at roughly 80 mph i hit a telephone pole and the vehicle came to a stop. my passenger walked away with a bruise on her chest and i limped away with a bruised kneecap and a scratched nose from the air bag.
that being said, i do not think it should be legally required by law for those with a valid drivers liscense. same with helmets on motorcycles. altho i do not get the people riding crotch rockets at 100 mph wearing shorts, tshirt and helmet. the helmet is only here for identification at that point.

 

[steve666]

I have pretty much always worn a seatbelt while driving even though I am vehemently opposed to the law requiring me to do so. I believe it should be an individuals choice not a government mandate! And that what happens to those who are too dumb to do so is a thinning of the shallow end of the gene pool.

 

[WBE3]

Both are for my safety. The answer is yes.

 

[sbcman]

Count me in for both, but I think I should get extra points that my gun also has a retention system.

 

[eldirector]

I carry and always buckle up. I've seen the results of an "ejection" - not pretty. I've also seen several off-road roll-overs where everyone was belted in - and we all walked away just fine (even if the Jeeps didn't quite survive).

 

[paintman]

well then since anyone could fall and hit his or her head and die. does this mean we should all wear a helmet for safety when we are walking?

 

[handgun]

well then since anyone could fall and hit his or her head and die. does this mean we should all wear a helmet for safety when we are walking?

SHHH don't give the Government any ideas!

I think wearing a seat belt is a matter of personal choice.
It wasn't the law when I started driving.. At least in Pick Up trucks it wasn't. I don't like them and never have. But on a rare occasion i do buckle up. Although a first responder once told me. They cut more dead people out of seat belts than they do scooping them off the road. I have actually seen a car accident where the seat belt slit a mans neck causing him to bleed out. So until you actually see that first hand, don't judge me for not wearing my seat belt the image is still fresh in my head as the day i saw that as a helpless teen not being able to help someone dying.

If off roading or on a race track (regardless of where the track is) i will and do use a seat belt. Just fyi.

The same personal choice in carrying a gun for protection. But personally i have only two ways i wish to go. 1. in my sleep. 2 in a vehicle.

 

[mizzi]

Been in two accidents that would have likely been fatalities had I been wearing a belt. I don't wear a belt unless Johnny's behind me (no need to be rude). Every time I do click it, I think of the jagged tree limb that would have impaled me had I not slid over to the passenger side in a bench seat late model Mercury. I spend a lot of time on the road, i've spidered 2 windshields... call me stupid. It's a choice; albeit from your vantage point, a poor one, it's the right one for me. And I carry daily at 3 o'clock... so the buckle would scratch I anyway!!

 

[ItIsWhatItIs]

I keep it buckled all the time. slip the shoulder strap over my head while in street clothes. no belt while in uniform tho. gets tangled in my gear.

 

[NapalmFTW]

Belt + carry, 100% of the time. It's a habit I got into as a small child. I feel naked and unrestrained when without it.

When I'm maneuvering the car at slow speed or just off the driveway I feel weird without it on. (gun and belt).

 

[Mike H]

100% to both. Buckeling up is as automatic as strapping on.

 

[Ness2k]

I only wear one so I'm not inconvenienced by seat belt tickets.

I have to wear a seat belt in the name of safety, but I can ride my 1000cc crotch rocket around in a pair of boxers and you can put 50 kids in a rolling tin can without seat belts?

Sounds like a good way to make some $$$

 

[LionWeight]

I wear a seatbelt and whether I carry or not is NUNYA.

 

[furbymac]

i only wear my seat belt because my car wont shut up about it unless i have it on. that and the stupid law says i have to

 

[right winger]

I use my seat belt because I have to.

 

[Jeff-223]

Years and years ago before it became a law I didn't wear mine all the time. Until there was and accident right beside my home. The two people not wearing seat belts died and the 3 in the people (in the same car) lived with very minor injuries. Since then I wear mine all the time without question.

 

[ag563]

I was a firefighter for 19 yrs., saw a lot of death that could have been avoided, if the people had whore their seat belts.

 

[wtfd661]

I waer mine everytime. A seatbealt saved my life when I was in a terrible accident. I was smashed between two semi's on a highway. SEATBELTS SAVE LIVES!!

 

[308jake]

Always carry and really who do you think is funding the I-70 road work? Single handed I'm responsible for one mile of improvements......your welcome.

I've been in several wrecks, with the last one on Friday January 13, 2012, and a seatbelt has yet to benefit me in an accident. I am not saying that seatbelts should not be worn; I'm merely saying that I personally do not use or believe in them. I will gladly pay the fine to drive as I see fit.