Originally Posted by
rydabent
I guess the bottom line here is the fact many of us dont want some overbearing b'crat telling us what we have to do. This is supposed to be a free country. I ALWAYS wear my helmet, and those that dont really do make good organ donors.
Bureaucrats can make recommendations, but only your elected officials can pass mandatory helmet laws.
When I was a young man and seat belt usage was becoming mandatory, the warning buzzer that would sound if you weren't buckled up was easily silenced by disconnecting the wires under the seat. Which we promptly did on all our cars because the government wasn't going to tell us what to do. Over the intervening decades, I somehow came to live with this gross imposition on my freedom.
I don't favor helmet laws either, but in the grander scheme of things I can't get all that excited about them. Especially since I don't see it as very likely that they'll actually be imposed in many jurisdictions.