----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Toft" > I mean, for crying out loud it's > an offence (in most states) to drive without a seatbelt on (the one part of the > car that's specific role is to save your butt in a wreck) yet, if you aren't > wearing it, the cop can't stop you. I'm very thankful that they can't stop me if I choose not to wear a seatbelt. Government's job isn't to protect me from myself. I wear one anyway due to the obvious safety enhancements, but the idea of it being mandated really rubs me wrong. Now for children or non-adults I think its a wise law to require them, so that they may some day grow old enough to make their own decisions. But mandating a thinking, voting, draftable adult to do something solely for the purpose of bettering roadside death statistics seems like an over-reaching law to me. By all means publish the studies, issue safety alerts, or whatever else - just don't pass it into law. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads