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New Hampshire and Rhode Island have no helmet laws, and that is the way it should be every where: absolutely none of the state's business regardless of how much "nannying" it chooses to do. The arguments about insurance rates and medical bills isn't a sound legal argument and is a myth anyways thanks to the lying, falsified statistical fear-mongering lobbyists and insurance industry: big bucks on the line as always when it comes to any lobbying issues!
I don't propose anyone should ride without a helmet or a fastened seatbelt, but it is absolutely none of the government's business. You want to be stupid, that's your right.
Minnesota should require all motorcyle drivers MUST wear a helmet. This is a simple common sense law. Anyone from 2 monthes old to 112 years old should have one on. Bikers wear helmets here, it really makes no sense at all. People who dont wear a helmet are beyond stupid, and they need intelligent people to help save their neck. Get it together Minnesota. Enough said
Minnesota should require all motorcyle drivers MUST wear a helmet. This is a simple common sense law. Anyone from 2 monthes old to 112 years old should have one on. Bikers wear helmets here, it really makes no sense at all. People who dont wear a helmet are beyond stupid, and they need intelligent people to help save their neck. Get it together Minnesota. Enough said
I'm all about free choice so I don't care much for the helmet laws. However, I agree completely...it's common sense to always wear a helmet and only an idiot or someone who doesn't give a damn about their life or the lives they affect doesn't wear one all the time. I wear a full face all year round and it's never been too hot to wear one. There are many different models on the market and it should be easy enough to find a comfortable helmet that fits your head.
I'm one of those people that doesn't see the need in a helmet law - educate people, but let them make their own Darwinian choices. Personally, I always wear a helmet on my motorcycle, and full face at that, along with leather protection to my toes. I'm too pretty for scars.
Minnesota should require all motorcyle drivers MUST wear a helmet. This is a simple common sense law. Anyone from 2 monthes old to 112 years old should have one on. Bikers wear helmets here, it really makes no sense at all. People who dont wear a helmet are beyond stupid, and they need intelligent people to help save their neck. Get it together Minnesota. Enough said
This is not about safety, it's about insurance industry profits. If you are old enough to be sent into battle or pay your taxes you should damn well be able to decide if you want to wear a helmet of a seat belt without worrying about the local cop taking another bite from your hard earned paycheck.
Government needs to worry about more managing our tax dollars better and let us decide what is best for our own safety.
What's next, requiring everyboby to wear body armor to cut down on gunshot wounds?
While I think it is rank insanity to ride without a helmet, people who want to do so should be able to. The "intelligent" people have no obligation to make them protect themselves. I agree with MI-Patrick that it's about insurance industry profits.
Freedom has its price, if that's freedom. It's at least freedom from common sense, which isn't very common.
In Minnesota motorcycle drivers are not legally required to wear helmets. I see so many people driving around with the wind blowing in their hair. But the ironic thing is that every bicyclist that I see, young and old, is wearing mandatory bike helmets! Where are the lawmakers on this one? Why do people have to wear bicycle helmets to go maybe 20 mph but you can go 65 mph on a huge motorcycle and not have to wear a helmet. I know every state has different laws...I just think this is so unbalanced and insane.
Minnesota - where my sons both live, and our who family used to live - is the same state that voted Jesse Ventura to be governor, and Al Franken to be Senator.
It stands to reason that there are a LOT of other retarded things going on there.
This is not about safety, it's about insurance industry profits. If you are old enough to be sent into battle or pay your taxes you should damn well be able to decide if you want to wear a helmet of a seat belt without worrying about the local cop taking another bite from your hard earned paycheck.
Government needs to worry about more managing our tax dollars better and let us decide what is best for our own safety.
What's next, requiring everyboby to wear body armor to cut down on gunshot wounds?
Actually that's not entirely true.
There are lots of Bozos, who have no health insurance, whipping around on motorcycles - and usually without helmets.
So when said Bozo gets into an accident, and by law the hospital cannot deny medical care regardless of a person's ability to pay, who do you suppose picks up the tab for the uninsured cyclist's medical bill? You and I do!
That said, I honestly struggle with the whole helmet law issue. I ALWAYS wear one when I ride, and think it's flagrantly stupid not to. But I'm also FOR individual rights and the right of choice...
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No to helmet and seat belt laws
