Sure let’s Drug test the NTSB.
If it isn’t interstate, it’s none of their business.
>>Head injury is the leading cause of death in motorcycle crashes, the Department of Transportation said.<<
Deaths are cheaper than injuries, and they tend to invoke Darwin’s law. In a free country, people are free to make wrong choices.
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I have been saying,it is only a matter of time before we will have to wear protective helmets, while driving our cars.
I’d also recommend seat belts, side impact air bags, roll bars, crumple zones, 5 mph impact bumpers...
I’m from the NBWCOS (National Bubble Wrap Council on Safety) and I call on all States to require everyone be wrapped in bubble wrap. Peoples failure to wrap themselves in bubble wrap has resulted in thousands of deaths each year.
Perhaps we should provide protective body armor for our unborn children. There seems to be a significant amount of deaths in the womb or during attempts to exit therefrom.
What ever happened to “My body, my choice”?
FUNTSB.
I can see making goggles mandatory as there are bugs, sand, grit, etc that can interfere with someone’s ability to drive safely.
But I think people should have the freedom to be dumb and fatally bash their brains into a support pillar on an interstate overpass if they want to.
I also think seat belt laws are dumb on that same line of reasoning.
Any of these new “safety” laws have turned from the best of intentions into revenue generation instruments that are routinely abused because they can be abused in that way.
I wore a helmet for two tours in Viet Nam to defend my rights to ride a motorcycle without one now that I’m a free spirit civilian. It’s my head and the gov needs to leave it alone.
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Bribery and extortion from the federal government are specifically mentioned as qualifying for the penalties prescribed.
Everybody in Saigon rides a motor bike. Lawfully they must wear a helmet but most don’t. They are usually strapped to the bikes, I asked a friend how come. She said “why wear them, they are made in China,no good”.
Screw the laws! I personally have always (even as a teenagaer) used my helmet/seatbelt because I understand pyshics and like to ride/drive like a bat out of hell. And I've never met anyone who didn't who could keep up with me either! ;)
My favorite childhood memory of freedom is of me napping in the back window of the family truckster on vacation while Dad drove with an open can of beer... and NO seatbelt! Man... those were the days! I'm so lucky to still be alive and paying taxes into the abysss of safety and evironmentalism.
Freedom has left the building!
Yeah, I got a helmet, but once the ol’ lady saw how much insurance I carry she hid it......
Bottom line is this. A man consciously gets on a motorcycle with or without a helmet. It is HIS decision and only his decision. It is his head. It is his life and nobody elses. Nobody owns that man, and nobody has a say as to what risks he decides to take.
The government is so worried about “deaths per 100,000” miles or some such BS statistic that they forget that each of those lives belongs only to one person. It is not their responsibility to protect people from themselves. Period.
Sticking scissors in babies brains OK.. pro choice.
Riding motorcycle without helmet.. not OK..dangerous.