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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (10273)	8/7/2004 10:27:15 AM
From: who cares?	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

they can exercise their rights and freedoms right out of the lives of their loved one and families but they were free, right up until the moment the died But that's ok, they made the choice, that's the way it's supposed to work. If what you're doing isn't bothering anyone else then you should be allowed to do it. Yes if you have an accident in your car with some helmetless rider and he croaks you're probably going to feel a little bad about it and thus have been harmed so gee let's just ban motorycycles and all non Volvo cars so we can all feel good all the time. Let's make cars out of Nerf material and have governors that limit them to 35mph and make it a no appeal death penalty offense to tamper with the governors. Oh and of course there's probably some stat about it costing more in medical bills to keep all the helmetless comatose people alive in the hospitals, thus driving up insurance rates for all. Those kind of arguments are just BS, it should be about freedom here in the USA. If I want to live my life stoopit, then I should be allowed to. I'd rather see a law making it an actual challenge to get a drivers license in the first place, and make it something that has to be redone every 10 years or so, maybe even 5 if you're over 70. There's too many people that have no business behind the wheel and there seems to be more and more of them everyday. BTW the studies where the number of fatalities rose, was that in sheer number or was it per 1000 riders or something like that? In other words did the study account for a growing number of bikes on the road or just go with the most sensational number? It always seemed to me that for the most part pro-helmet stats like those were always slanted to support a particular belief, much like pro gun ban statistics. BTW I don't ride, except a bicycle, and I don't always wear a helmet when I do that. The thought being, I don't want to mess up my hair while I still have it, and if i'm on my bicycle and get ran over I probably would like to die rather than need the OSS Steve Austin team to put me back together. But then sometimes I think of my fellow man, the guys that have been fishin all day and have drank a case of beer in the process and are on the way home to clean the catch, or the teenagers with a $2000 car with $5k stereo, or the soccer mom sitting up so high in her SUV, that she believes would win in battle against a Sherman Tank, and on those days I wear the helmet and mess up my hair.