Reply #25: The law is meant to save lives. And it's working.

[Dr Morbius]

And you shouldn't need a law to tell you how foolish it is to mix alcohol and guns, nor is one stupidity in law justification for more stupidity.

The very purpose of law is to remedy harm. To prevent, redress, or alleviate the effects of harm. If everyone wore their seatbelts, fewer Americans would die. The death toll on our national highways is on the decline. People wearing seatbelts are FAR less likely to die in traffic accidents; that's a fact.

I've seen the police with their seatbelt enforcement squad. You know what they do? They slow all the cars down where there's only one lane to get by, and they stand there in the street and look in your car. If they see you wearing a seatbelt, they wave you through. I drive a lot, and I've never been pulled over by a cop who wanted to check if I was wearing my seatbelt. Besides, anywhere I've been, cops don't really need a reason to pull you over. They can make something up; the judge is more likely to believe them than you anyway.

Seatbelts save lives. If people wore their seatbelts voluntarily, as I do, there would be no need for the law. The law was meant to save lives.