Way to buckle down on motorists...

Perfect example of the slippery slope. It got passed, with the assurance that it would be a secondary offense. With a little time, it gets chipped away.

Yep, NYS did the same thing.

Click it or you will get a ticket. Casselberry police proved it Tuesday morning. More than 100 drivers and their passengers were caught on the road without a seatbelt and drove away with a $100 ticket.

Strapped for cash?

And personal injury compensation for those too stupid to wear a seatbelt should be paid out for what reason exactly?

We've had similar rules in Australia for years now - no seatbelt will earn you demerit points. The death toll plummetted, and its now at the point where most people feel strange not wearing a seat belt when in a car.

I hate a hell of a lot of the traffic laws in this country, but the law against seatbelts is not one of them.

Just put the damn belt on and we wouldn't have these farking laws.

If you're going to permanently injure yourself or your passengers, then the public who is going to end up footing the bill for your care has a stronger financial self-interest than you interest in keeping your belly free-jiggling.

And as everyone is keen to point out, STATES RIGHTS!!! STATES RIGHTS1!!! MAJORITY RULES!!! NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS WHICH CAN SUBORDINATE THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY!!! STATES RIGHTS!!!

it's been a primary in Georgia here for years. Cops here love the excuse it gives them to stop cars and get a quick peek inside...

Seriously, if you're not smart enough to wear one, Darwin should get you by forfeit.

Feh, Jersey did that years ago. They got the original law passed by promising it would never be a primary, then 5 years later upped it to primary.
Then the handheld cell phone ban.
Now they want a law making it illegal to touch a GPS unit while driving.

Earguy: Perfect example of the slippery slope. It got passed, with the assurance that it would be a secondary offense. With a little time, it gets chipped away.

B...b...but the slippery slope is a logical fallacy! It can't possibly be of any predictive value when dealing with illogical governments!

jonny_q: Arkansas is doing the same thing. It's been probably 15 years since it became a secondary offense.

I think it's pretty stupid too, backed up by completely made up numbers.

It's more about revenue than anything.

The underlined part is the only thing you needed to say. The rest is merely extraneous rationalization.

jasnotron: TheShavingofOccam123: If you're going to permanently injure yourself or your passengers, then the public who is going to end up footing the bill for your care has a stronger financial self-interest than you interest in keeping your belly free-jiggling.

And arguments like ^this^ are what will bring a ban or a tax that is too high for most to afford on foods you may want to eat (like bacon mmmmm) when we have national health care.

Um dude... you do realize that most meat in this country is subsidized to some degree by Uncle Sam.

I'd love to see a politician try to tax bacon: "Political Suicide"

Meh. I started wearing a seat-belt a couple of decades ago when it became mandatory on military bases (I was stationed at Fort Gordon, GA).
It got to be a habit.

Those who don't are like folks who ride motorcycles without helmets: Future organ donors.

jasnotron: TheShavingofOccam123: If you're going to permanently injure yourself or your passengers, then the public who is going to end up footing the bill for your care has a stronger financial self-interest than you interest in keeping your belly free-jiggling.

And arguments like ^this^ are what will bring a ban or a tax that is too high for most to afford on foods you may want to eat (like bacon mmmmm) when we have national health care.

Er. the first line in my post:

Just put the damn belt on and we wouldn't have these farking laws.

Personal responsibility includes choices about seat belts and food choices. If you want to be Fatty McPlumperson (and who doesn't) then buy your own health insurance. And as far as national health care, Arizona, the state that wants to make sure Arizonans have no option to purchase a federal insurance policy, offers insurance to small businesses and individual contractors. Arizona does this because no private insurance company would write policies. BTW, that was a Democratic governor who did that. And there are plenty of true-blue conservatives who buy their insurance via the State of Arizona.

As a Floridian who is an avid seatbelt user, I fully support advancing this traffic offense to the primary level.

Now, let's bring back mandatory helmet wear for those silly motorcyclists. I have no need of spare parts from those dumbass organ donors.

/We should have allowed kids under 18 to not wear helmets on motorcycles too.
//Their organs would be healthier and last far longer than those tub-o boomers.

kidsizedcoffin: Remember to paint the silver part of the seat belt with a neutral non-reflective thin layer of paint. That should prevent it from flashing visibly in the sun.

I just tuck it under my left moob.

give me doughnuts: Those who don't are like folks who ride motorcycles without helmets: Future organ donors.

The organ donor problem is such an easy one to fix, it just requires a politician with an ounce of a backbone. Make everyone an organ donor by default, and then allow an opt-out system so people who have a problem with this can happily get out. The 4% of people who feel strongly about opting out will, the rest of us will be too lazy to care. Everyone wins.

Why isn't this happenning?