Got pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. Why is this even a law?

It's a law in Pennsylvania too...yet you're allowed to ride a motorcycle without a helmet here.

This is a victimless crime. No crime, no victim. The reason why this is a law is because the government is tyrannical. Remember what Thomas Jefferson said, "When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty." Also by Thomas Jefferson, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

I believe the argument is that if you aren't buckled in you could act as a projectile object and thus injur someone else.

You are also not allowed to do cocaine. Same argument

I am curious, in states where there is no seat belt law, (assuming there are some), how do insurance companies react? Do they just increase everyone's premiums to cover the increased medical costs of people not buckled in? Or is there a seat belt clause which states your insurance is invalid if you are in an accident and not wearing a seat belt, unless you paid the no seat belt premium?

You don't have to wear one if you are riding in the bed of a pickup truck. Just try to hold on .

Read through a few of those news stories "Driver and passenger killed in auto accident....the individuals were thrown from the vehicle.....vehicle rolled on victims.......were not wearing seat belts........pronounced DEAD at the scene".

Riding motorcycles and in the back of pickups gives people a chance to live their "Inner Darwin".

It's also illegal to commit suicide in many places. Maybe it deters some people?

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Cop wouldn't have even known if my windows weren't down. Why does the government have a say in my safety when it harms no one else but myself if I wreck? Motorcyclists don't wear seatbelts....

By the way, I do normally wear a seatbelt but I was 5 minutes away from where I was going and never went above 35mph.

I think it's crazy not to wear a seatbelt. Pre wouldn't have had a scratch if he had been using his. Anyway, having an injury that would have had been avoided by using a seatbelt results in additional costs such as ambulance and hospital care. If nobody wore seatbelts insurance companies would have to increase premiums to cover the increase in costs.

Go look up video of people being ejected from a vehicle. You basically become a 100+ lb projectile hurtling through the air at 60mph.

I guess seatbelts are the price you pay for access to mult-million dollar highway/freeway system.

New Hampshire is the only state in the U.S. that does not have a seat belt law.

New Hampshire has the lowest seat belt use rate in the country (70.2), but across the country there has been a long term and dramatic rise in seat belt use. USA seat belt use is reached 90 in 2016.

States with primary seat belt enforcement have somewhat higher use than states where seat belt enforcement is a secondary offense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_in_the_United_States

It's a good law as who wants to pick up your mangled corpse that may have been ejected from the vehicle? In addition, seat belts cut down on injuries, thus less hospital time and keeps our car insurance premiums down to cover medical costs.

...???? wrote:

Cop wouldn't have even known if my windows weren't down..

Unlike the audio question about that tree in the forest you are breaking the law no matter John Law sees or not.

...???? wrote:

Cop wouldn't have even known if my windows weren't down. Why does the government have a say in my safety when it harms no one else but myself if I wreck? Motorcyclists don't wear seatbelts....

By the way, I do normally wear a seatbelt but I was 5 minutes away from where I was going and never went above 35mph.

There is a libertarian argument against seat belts, but also since you are driving on government roads you agree to abide by the rules gov lays out. You cannot be cited if you are driving on private property. Also, vehicles registered as farm equipment in some states were once (and maybe still are) exempted from seat belt laws.

It seems like a weenie move for a cop to cite you for that (at first it was a secondary offense).

Did you have your AR-15 with you? I think it would have been your Constitutional right to kill the cop.

mellow seeds wrote:

I believe the argument is that if you aren't buckled in you could act as a projectile object and thus injur someone else.

I do not think this a reason.

2:18 wrote:

You don't have to wear one if you are riding in the bed of a pickup truck. Just try to hold on .

Isn't this illegal in some states?

helmets are for sissies

So in New Hampshire is it live free or die or is it live free and die.