Aug
Spare Me from Government Self-Protection Laws
Is anyone other than me getting really annoyed by the “Click it or Ticket” campaign that has recently been launched with such fervor in the last month. Does anyone realize that the government is actually making driving without a seatbelt a crime?
Now, I’ve been wearing seatbelts since they first became standard equipment in cars. I was a child then and I’ve been wearing them ever since. I don’t need a law to tell me to be safe. I don’t want to die, or worse, be horribly disfigured by being thrown through a windshield. I have common sense. I’m an adult and I have chosen to wear my seatbelt. I object strongly, though, to the idea that I no longer have a choice in the matter. It is, after all, my life we are talking about. Adults have the right to be stupid.
It’s fine if they want to pass a law requiring children to be in car seats and wear seatbelts. I have no objection to that. Parents don’t have the right to risk their children’s lives, but they certainly have the right to risk their own. It is not the government’s job to protect me from myself. Their job is to protect this country from all enemies foreign and domestic. Some guy who’s not wearing a seatbelt is no threat to me. He is only a threat to himself.