Comments on: New Hampshire, Join The Rest Of Us

Contributor Lloyd Garver Notes The Ruggedly-Individualistic State Doesn't Require Seat Belts

[ladydiane63]

As someone who has survived a roll over car accident because I was wearing my seat belt. I would like to impress upon the people of New Hampshire the importance of wearing them at all times. I was less than a mile from home when my accident occurred and if I had not had it on, I would not be hear today.

[edjohn66]

Driving an automobile is not a right. Everything about them are regulated by the government. So why not seat belt use?

I suppose all you knee-jerk libertarians who are against a law requiring seat-belt use all don't drive, either. You know, seeing as how there are a plethora of government regulations about the building, sale, registration, licensing, and operation of motor vehicles. At the very least, I'm sure you all think its abhorrent to be required to actually get a driver's license to drive.

Otherwise, you are just hypocritical whiners. Suck it up and deal with the fact that society is better off with seat-belt laws.

[thee0racle]

It's about the MONEY and not SAFETY. Why stop there? Let's outlaw SMOKING, and TRAMPOLINES and PIT BULLS and OVEREATING

[thgdriver]

First off I want to state I wear my seat belt. But it should be up to the adult to make this decision and not BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT (or the insurance company's) with a fine in place to fill the state money coffers with. When I see a person on a motor Cycle going down the road at sixty five or more, I laugh That there is a law forcing auto and truck drivers to wear seat belts!!

You state that it winds up costing millions, so what? Folks out there cost us millions every year by doing things like mountain climbing, sky diving, cliff and bridge bungee jumping, all sports, well, the list goes on and on. And what about their family's when they seriously hurt or kill themselves? Big Brother Government has got to mind his own business or put laws against all dangerous risks. Lets see them try that!!

[naturaltwo]

Enough of these idiot so called do gooders who are really control freaks in disguise.

Obviously none of them believe in the law of natural selection. Protect people from themselves. Pure nonsense.

So is Lloyd Garver.

[gunnerv1]

Just wait until the DemocRats completly take over. They will be passing laws right and left so that the "Benovlent" Government can "Protect you from yourself"

[rohink-2009]

All those road blocks to check for seat belts is to protect lives? Bull-sh*t, there's money to be made. I wear a seat belt because I choose to. So much for the land of the free. Keep believing that the government puts all these laws in effect for our own good.

[dan9111]

This is actually about a forced mandate, not the wisdom of seat belts. Use some logic. It is nonsensical to threaten violence against a person because they don't agree with you. But that is the truth of this so-called law. It is a threat violence for being unsafe, promoted I bet by those raised in violent families. Thus, a badge excuses all immoral behavior.

It is funny that some Americans will "defend freedom" by destroying it. Those who favor such behavior are as unthinking as those not wearing seat belts. No difference at all. I have little sympathy for those who will suffer and die (safely buckled mind you), after having deliberately sacrificed the freedom of others. They are no more entitled to dictate seatbelts than I am to steal their car. The morality of using violent coercion is exactly the same.

[mitch0927]

I always thought Oklahoma was the last to do or get anything. We have only had the lottery for just over a year, and we just made it mandatory for seat blets for about five years. We went through the same thing, people saying, "I do what I want to do". I truly believe it is something that needs to be looked at logically. Seat belts were put there for a reason, not just a conversation piece. Go back a few decades and see what people were saying about safety glass for windshields. Do you adults want your children to grow up with foster parents or grand parents? I would hope not. It's the wide picture of what COULD happen......

[lorinkundert]

It's sad to see that New Hampshire is the only state in the union where the people and the Government are willing to fight to keep their freedoms, every other state should seriously take a long hard look at what is happening to our country.