Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

NO!!! Each and every American who has a seatbelt law in their state should take that as the highest of insults. This law (along with any law that gets in the way of you being able to decide what is best for you) is basically saying that you are not smart enough to make this decision on your own so your political leader must decide that for you.When did personal choices become the responsibility of the government to decide on? Obviously seatbelts save some lives but if the government gets to decide we wear seatbelts then why not rule that smoking is illegal? That is just as harmful, if not more so, especially to other people, than driving without a seatbelt. How about drinking alcohol, or having unprotected sex, or people on welfare with no job and 6 other kids having another child with yet another different man? The problem here is that people want the government to get too involved in their lives. This leads to our individual freedoms slowly being stripped from us. When we allow our leaders to make laws that impede in the decisions of our daily lives we are allowing them entry into the very being of who we are and who we have the ability to become. This country was founded on the need to be absolutely and completely free people with the rights and abilities to make our own decisions on what is best for our own lives. Somewhere along the line we Americans began to see and believe the government is bigger and more important than the people. That is very sad because is it completely opposite of the country our forefathers envisioned for us. The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States outlined all we would ever need to live full, happy lives. In those documents we were given the blueprint of a country created and run FOR the people, BY the people, not FOR the people FROM the government.Now I know some people will argue that I am making too much out of this but I say they are not making enough out of it. In the Declaration of Independence we are all afforded "Unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Well I for one am not happy wearing a seatbelt, wearing a motorcycle helmet, or being told I cannot decide what I want to do with my body or life.Stand up people and make American what it was meant to be. Start by reading The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States. Your political leaders are there FOR you and when they are not making the decisions you want them to make, remove them from their position.On a more personal note, I was in a nasty car crash years ago where it was determined that if I had worn my seatbelt I would have been killed. I was in the passenger seat and the car was broad-sided crushing the passenger side door in on me. Somehow I had the presence of mind to push myself up and toward the driver which threw me against the driver's side door interior. I walked away with a badly bruised leg with temporary nerve damage along with other cuts and bruises, but nothing life threatening. The passenger side door ended up in the middle of the car and the seat was demolished. I have never and will never wear a seatbelt after that.