Can’t We Just Let Evolution Do What It Does?
By Johnny Roosh
Non-survival of the dumbest for example.
Drivers and front-seat passengers in Florida may be cited for not wearing seat belts when a new law takes effect on June 30. Known as a “primary” seat belt law, the law allows enforcement officers to pull vehicles over solely for a belt violation
Sounds reasonable enough, right?
Signed into law by Gov. Charlie Crist earlier this week, the legislation makes Florida eligible for up to $35 million in federal grant money created in 2005 as an incentive for states to establish seat belt laws.
Thanks for holding firm to the principals of conservatism there Chuck. It’s my pleasure to pay federal income taxes and see them spent in Florida to incent some dufus to wear his seat belt.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
But government spending creates jobs! What are you? UNPATRIOTIC???
May 8th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Double Dip – $35MM and extra tax revenue from motorists. FL will need to hire more tax collectors, oops, state troopers, to collect the revenue. A win/win proposition. No?
May 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
See, Keynesian multiplier at work! Stars & Stripes forever! Give me more Kool-Aid, this stuff is delicious!
May 8th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I don’t wear a seatbelt! Who cares? When you smoke a pack a day of unfiltered cigarettes every day is a blessing!
May 8th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I think those of you who are parents would probably rather have a police officer pull your kid over and tell him or her to buckle up, than have them get hurt. Given the frequency with which inexperienced drivers have accidents.
Ah Terry, you apparently believe fully in picking your own poison – and you seem to believe you have done that with nicotine? No wonder the proximity of that volcano doesn’t worry you.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
“I think those of you who are parents would probably rather have a police officer pull your kid over and tell him or her to buckle up, than have them get hurt.”
Another excuse to have the state act as nanny?
May 9th, 2009 at 12:53 am
My kids remind me to put my seat belt on. That has nothing to do with Officer ATM looking for funding for the new ice rink the mayor wants to build. It’s because I’ve taught them basic physics.
What is it with you “moderate” apologists? The government is concerned with the betterment & security of the government, not you. don’t be naiive!
OMG! What’s happening to me! I need more of that Kool-aid fast! Personal responsibility is too hard. GIVE… ME… A… DRINK… NOW!
May 9th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Think of it as the police “Freedom to profile” law. If a cop doesn’t like your skin color, hair or bumper stickers they can pull you over to check if you are using seatbelts.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:49 am
My kids remind me to put my seat belt on.
Mine were schooled very young, and simply do it without a seconf thought. Only a fool disregards perspnal protection equipment, be it a seat belt or a hard hat.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Kermit says:
Mine were schooled very young, and simply do it without a seconf thought. Only a fool disregards perspnal protection equipment, be it a seat belt or a hard hat. ”
I’m sure you were conscientious Kermit. The problem comes in with even good kids sometimes giving in to peer pressure, the teenage desire to rebel once in a while, asserting their independence from their parents ways of doing things. It might be as small a thing as your kids have your car and are unable to get their passenger friend to belt up – any resulting accident costs you more money through your insurance. Those little spy boxes that parents can install in their cars to monitor teenage drivers is pretty conclusive that even good kids sometimes don’t do quite what a parent would expect.
I don’t think it is a good idea to make it the law that you can be stopped JUST for not wearing a seat belt. But if it takes making it a law to get better participation, to raise awareness of seatbelts for safety – that works for me. Cops jobs are about safety; that doesn’t make them nannies, IMHO.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I agree that people shoud be pulled over for not wearing their seat belts as a primary offense, at least for drivers under age 18 or 21. My issue is federal dollars being sent back to the states.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Cops jobs are about safety; that doesn’t make them nannies, IMHO.
What’s next? Are we going to stop people and give them involuntary cholesterol checks?
May 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
“The problem comes in with even good kids sometimes giving in to peer pressure”
Me: Come on, Dog Gone, let’s be cool and not wear our seat belts.
Kermit: Yeah, seat belts are for squares!
Ha!
May 9th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Deathwish Terry wrote: “I don’t wear a seatbelt! Who cares? When you smoke a pack a day of unfiltered cigarettes every day is a blessing!”
And you have a plate in your head. Who’d have guessed?
Wingnuts think freedom means the right to drive down a highway at 80 mph without a seatbelt, drinking a Bud tall boy and getting fellated by an underage Labrador Retriever.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
And a leftist fascist brownshirt hack thinks that would be the case unless their police state made sure it didn’t.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Jeepers, Angry Clown, don’t you know what irony is? Hawaii has had a seat belt law for over twenty years and it is strictly enforced.
There is nothing wrong with not wearing a seat belt unless you get into an accident. There is nothing wrong with drinking a beer while you are driving unless you drink enough enough to impair your ability to drive.
Now, engaging in unprotected anal sex with a stranger? That sounds dangerous. Otta be a law against it.
You have strange ideas about freedom, AC. But you know, whatever turns you on.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:03 am
You don’t want to know what turns the clown on.
*shudders as images of Pelosi go flashing by*
May 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am
There is nothing wrong with drinking a beer while you are driving unless you drink enough enough to impair your ability to drive.
Now, engaging in unprotected anal sex with a stranger? That sounds dangerous. Otta be a law against it.
Oh! SNAP!
Hey guys don’t worry about anything this is also only for your protection, I mean, I bet you wouldn’t mind if the police could track down your teenager at any point in time:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-gps-police,0,5890193.story
Of course, like the seat belt law, it applies to everyone… not just the one small instance where you can construe a faux benefit.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Primary seat belt laws = Probable cause to stop any vehicle.
Citizen: Why did you stop me officer?
Officer: I could not see that your seatbelt was fastened. Since I now have you stopped, license and insurance, please. What’s that in your back seat?
May 11th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Plus if you did forget to buckle up, the municipality just made $100 or so. Win/win…for the State.
May 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Not surprising that DG would choose “safety” over liberty.
Loren is spot on!
I can hear it already, “You were pulled over because the cop didn’t think you had your seat belt on?”