You are running late and just get into the car and don't have time to put on our seatbelt. Next thing you know you are gettting pulled over for not having your seatbelt on and you are getting a ticket. Do you think that the law enforcement should make you wear a seatbelt or should it be your personal opinion.
There are two types of seatbelt laws, there are primary and there are secondary laws. The primary say that you can get a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt, with no other traffic violations. The secondary law says that the law enfrocement can only issue at ticket for not wearing your seatbelt if there is another traffic violation.
Not wearing your seatbelt leads to some of the most traffic deaths. About 63% of people die in a car crash a year because they do not wear their seatbelt. If people start to buckle up we will prevent over 5,000 deaths, and 132,000 injuries.
I think that the seatbelt law is a good thing. It is meant to keep people safe. I also think that it is totally up to the person if they want to wear it or not. They are making their own choice for their saftey.
I dont think that you should get a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt though. I think that once again it is your choice, not the law enforcements. So i think that wearing a seatbelt is a good thing, i dont think that you should be forced to wear one and end up having to pay if you dont wear your seatbelt.
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With this law, law enforcement officials are in position of having to protect people against themselves, in this case, the habit of not wearing a seat belt. I suppose I could make the argument that our current laws against drugs are designed to protect the people who would use drugs from themselves and their bad habits. I don't expect them to stop using drugs without any consequences from the law beyond a reprimand (which is probably all the cops would do if they couldn't give tickets). The consequences of drug use and not wearing seat belts are well known, but people still persist. So why regulate one and not the other? Society reserves the right to punish people involved in the drug trade just for having that drug on their person. The consequences of cocaine addiction on a person's body, though fairly spectacular, don't completely compare with the consequences on a person's body going headfirst through a car's windshield. Is one consequence worse than another? Should society act to stop the drug trade and not act to get people to do something as simple as wear a seat belt? After all, aren't both a choice?
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