*if seatbelt laws were introduced in 2021*

[kpete]

[Ocelot II]

1. There actually was a lot of complaining

when seat belt laws were passed, same re: motorcycle helmets. The mask situation is different and worse though, because masks are also meant to protect other people.

[Otto_Harper]

7. You betcha!

Back in the day, I remember listening in shock, horror, disbelief as an acquaintance went on a diatribe against seat belts, and how he would cut them out of any new car he bought so that people would not feel required to wear such evil contrivances.

It turns out to have been good training for the current MAGAt blither fests I am suffered to witness.

[myccrider]

22. +1

And there are still yo-yo’s out there who refuse to wear searbelts. They just pull them over their shoulder to look compliant. I have a nephew who does this, he’s also a cray-cray conspiracy nut and neo-nazi with minimal contact with my side of the family any more.

[marybourg]

2. Actually, this is exactly what DID happen.

They same Freedumbbells fought it for years, decades even, until laws became stricter and they quietly started obeying and eventually died off.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Yep. My first run-in with right wing nuttery was my Baptist neighbor screaming at me...

… for supporting seat belt laws.

I think I was around 10 and all I said was I think they are a good idea.

[pidge]

11. I doubt only righties hated seatbelts..I had

many Dem friends who hated them,all on both sides finally came around.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. No doubt. I'm pretty sure I've seen people on this site arguing against the laws requiring seatbelts

This was just my first run in with a loud mouthed southern Baptist anti government type that felt compelled to school a child in how bad the gubment was.

Funny story: I still own the house but don’t live in it. Anti government guy lives two doors away. The neighbor in between us was building a fence using the old fence as a guide. Jagoff was out there giving the workers a hard time over an inch on way or another. So the neighbor between us had a survey done and it turns out jagoff’s fence was encroaching three feet. So being a dickhead cost him 3 feet of yard. Plus the fence building neighbor decided to build almost the entire length of the property line instead of just from house to garage.

[Ocelot II]

18. Yup. Whoever came up with that meme must be too young to have heard or remembered

all the whining and complaining about the infringement on the complainers' freedumbs on account of being forced to wear seat belts that could save their lives in a car accident.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I know absolutely no one but me in my who town that wears seatbelts.

[NurseJackie]

9. Because-e-e-e? They're all dead?

It's SO automatic for me that I don't even think about it. --- The other day I moved my truck closer to the garden hose so that my husband could wash it for me.

I rolled TEN FEET... from my normal parking space, and I chuckled at myself when I realized I'd put on my seatbelt.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Me too, seatbelts latched before I start my car. Everyone else is "Nobody tells me what to do"

[piddyprints]

5. Some still won't wear them.

My ex-son-in-law refuses to wear a seatbelt. I refused to ride with him and worried about my daughter riding with him. Why? It’s not just about him. He would be a 250+lb. projectile bouncing around in the passenger compartment. I was the only person on my family to ever consider that.

That’s just one of the many reasons I’m thankful he’s no longer a part of our family. I would take a wild guess that he’s also anti-vax and anti-mask. At one point he had our daughter convinced that Sean Hannity was the “most fair and balanced reporter” on tv. So we know how he leans.

[ibegurpard]

6. I'm actually fine with people not wearing seat belts

They only hurt themselves. People that won't mask or vaccinate endanger everyone else.

[thucythucy]

8. People who don't wear seatbelts

have the potential of hurting others. A poster above talks about how her former in-law could turn into a "250 lb. projectile" during an accident.

And a driver who isn't wearing a belt might lose control of their car trying to evade an accident by suddenly hitting the brakes or making a violent serve on the freeway.

In short, they are a potential threat to everyone else on the road, especially other people riding with them in the same car.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Absolutely

I know first hand. I almost wrecked once while moving my truck before being belted in. I clipped a retaining wall which cause a big bump and a lurch - I slid forward on the leather seats and since my foot was on the gas I drove the pedal to the floor. I shot across the parking lot and barely missed hitting a garage before I got it under control. Had anyone been in front of me I would have run them over.

[NurseJackie]

10. People who remain strapped in are in better control of their vehicle...

... someone who's been jostled from behind the wheel, or out of reach of the brake pedal cannot control their vehicle. They're just riding inside a cannon-ball waiting for it to stop when it hits something.

[milestogo]

12. All these things affect other people.

Emergency rooms will take lifesaving measures on an accident victim who was not wearing the helmet, even if they don't carry insurance. The cost of that treatment gets passed along to the rest of us in higher health care costs and premiums.

[dsc]

15. I was an adult when this came about

and many of those things were indeed said in real time. My own dad was in the chest category (he had had open heart surgery so there was that but he hated them for years after that).

[KentuckyWoman]

17. Hilarious and pitiful at the same time.

Some people are beyond stupid.

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Oh geez...this would have been my mother.

Mother hated and refused to wear seatbelts, which was easy in her older car. It was a bit of perverse fun, then, when I took her out to run errands in my new car. I strapped in and started the car. She sat. I gave her a questioning eye; she sat. I put the car in Reverse to back out, and the fun began. "Beep, beep, beep." Twenty seconds later..."Beep, beep, beep", and so on and so on. It continued for several minutes and quite a few blocks. I could see her face tightening and her color rising. "What the hell is that God-awful noise?
Make it stop!" "THAT, Mother, is the sound we'll be listening to until the moment you hook up your seatbelt. I CAN'T make it stop, but YOU can." With great huffiness and exasperation, she pushed the belt into its connection, and wouldn't say another word for the remainder of the trip. Win-Win!

[lame54]

21. Drowned out 2 horrible noises

[lame54]

20. Gary Busey and motorcycle helmets