Sometimes fire extinguishers are useless. They don't always save lives.
Same with AEDs, gas masks, hard hats, Flintstones chewable vitamins...
To paraphrase George Carlin:
90% of all accidents happen within ten miles of your home, so you should drive as fast as possible to get out of this dangerous zone!
I know how we can settle this. Demo derby in the old airport parking lot. Seatbelts vs. no seatbelts. Winner takes all!!!!
So your advise is to always drive under 40 mph?
While I am in 100% agreement that no-one should be forced, by government, to wear a seat belt there is no logical reason not to. Just because you're going 35 MPH doesn't mean that the A-hole who hits you isn't doing 75 MPH. Your speed becomes irrelevant at that point and physics takes over. I'll keep my belt on.Only in a horse and wagon configuration.
No, what I'm saying is that there are times when it's perfectly ok NOT to wear your seat belt.
I'm also saying that anyone using government to force their safety conscience BS on me can grab their ankles while I plant my size 11 so far in their butt they'd need a neurosurgeon to remove it.
While I am in 100% agreement that no-one should be forced, by government, to wear a seat belt there is no logical reason not to. Just because you're going 35 MPH doesn't mean that the A-hole who hits you isn't doing 75 MPH. Your speed becomes irrelevant at that point and physics takes over. I'll keep my belt on.
My seatbelt was completely useless yesterday... I drove all over town and it never served any practical purpose. I'm going to stop using it now.
Come to think of it... I carried my pistol all day, and all it did was sit in my holster. A lot of good that did. I'm done carrying it.
My seatbelt was completely useless yesterday... I drove all over town and it never served any practical purpose. I'm going to stop using it now.
Come to think of it... I carried my pistol all day, and all it did was sit in my holster. A lot of good that did. I'm done carrying it.
You know, it's possible for your pistol to be used against you...
Yes... and it is also possible for my seat belt to be used against me!
My dad was a fire fighter, then a paramedic and then a police officer. He said that with all the accidents he had seen he would never wear his seat belt. He seemed to prefer his odds without it. But he always wore a helmet when he rode his motorcycle.
After spending 15 years in medicine (from EMS to the OR Trauma team) I can tell you life is a total crap shoot.
The majority of the time seat belts will make a difference. That said, there have been too many instances I've seen where people lived because they were NOT wearing their seat belt.
Mandatory seat beat legislation means the State is mandating that people will have to DIE because they are in compliance with the law.
Let me repeat:
Mandatory seat belt laws MANDATE THE DEATH OF HUNDREDS PER YEAR, perhaps thousands.
I do wear a seat belt as, in MY opinion, it is safer to do so. No one has a right to make that choice for me.
YMMV but the numbers don't lie. Many thousands of lives are saved by seat belts, but it's insanity to ignore the hundreds, if not thousands, of lives taken by those same devices.
Don't even get me started on the risk/benefit ratio of airbags....
At least SOMEONE has a little sense.
Some of you act as though I said seat belts are completely useless or that I'm trying to convince you to NOT wear YOURS. That's not what I said or my goal here. I'm just showing you, not only WHY I don't wear mine, but that in a case like this, seat belts either don't matter, or will kill you.