I do believe that we ("we" being the two different groups, the freedom lovers and the law-and-order types) back when the seat belt laws first went into affect.
"Oh, don't worry!" they said, "It's only going to be a secondary offense. No one will EVER get pulled over and ticketed for not wearing a seat belt."
And now it happens regularly. I have zero faith that just because you think it won't happen next week that we won't be living with this pointless and overly invasive law long after the trolls that defended it have vanished.
It always works that way. The DUI laws get stricter and stricter until they are no longer about getting drunks off the road. The seat belt laws, the helmet laws, the child seat laws, now it's texting and cell phones. Offer me one example of a law that restricts a driver's freedom that has never gotten worse and then I'll bite.
If it's a safety issue then it should apply to everyone on the road. If cops are exempt then it's not a safety law.
The reality is that this is just ANOTHER nanny-state, freedom-restricting statist intrusion.
I’ve never seen anybody get pulled over just for not wearing a seat belt. The fact of the matter is cops pass by hundreds, maybe thousands, of cars a day. They pull people over who draw attention to themselves. If you can keep it at the speed limit and between the lines you won’t draw attention to yourself, you can be drunk, texting and not wearing a seat belt but if you’re keeping it together they won’t even notice you.