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Do mandatory seat belt laws violate individual rights?

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Yes
32% 193 votes Total: 603 votes
No
68% 410 votes

What kind of twisted thinking is that. OK, if
a person thinks this is so isn't playing with
a full deck. I can't even phantom the thought
of not wearing a seat belt. Imagine what would
happen if those laws weren't in place, so many
lives would be gone.

That concept of seat belt laws violating individual
rights is twisted, that saying a person has the

right to commit suicide. we all know there is no
such law, and even though there isn't a law saying
you can't commit suicide. T he point I'm making
here, is that a person not wearing a seat belt
is suicidal.

Right now to this day I see mothers driving, with
there children in the back seat and they weren't
strapped in. That's just crazy, instantly I begin
to think do she know if she gets hit from
behind, her child is flying through the windshield.

Just the thought of that makes me glad that law makers
passed that law. They were tired of senseless deaths
like car crashes, and people not putting on a seat belt.
They could have survived if they had just put on a
seat belt.

But in actuality the law can't make anyone put on
a seat belt, if a person don't want to put on a seat
belt they won't. It doesn't matter how many tickets
law enforcers write, it won't stop folks who don't
want to wear it.

I like the fact that the law makers are at least
trying to save lives folks have to save there
own, by putting on a seat belt.

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