Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: gun control, seatbelt laws, drunk driving, etc. Message-ID: <524@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 11:11:34 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.524 Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:11:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 04:42:48 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <297@desint.UUCP> <1931@sun.uucp> <318@ll1.UUCP> <42@osu-eddie.UUCP> <226@tilt.FUN> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 Ray Chen writes: > should be made smaller. Sueing somebody for damages in a car accident > when you weren't wearing a seat belt is like sueing somebody for > loading your gun before you looked down the barrel and pulled the > trigger. Bad analogy. Remember, in order to successfully sue someone for an auto accident, you have to show that the accident was their fault. A better analogy: Sueing someone for damages in a car accident when you weren't wearing a seat belt is like sueing somebody for accidentaly shooting you when you weren't wearing your bullet-proof vest. I've been driving for nine years now with no accidents, no tickets, and no safety belts. If I get hurt because somebody else ran their car into mine, I should still be able to sue their a** off. I may have been hurt less if I'd been wearing a safety belt, but I would also be hurt less if whoever ran into me knew how to drive. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Aye, Captain, and at warp 11 we're going nowhere mighty fast!"