Helmet Law Repeal Stats

Avoiding the need for helmet laws

One of the ironic things about the rhetoric of some anti-helmeters is that it actually increases the likelihood of helmet laws. All that happy horsesh*t about helmets breaking necks, restricting hearing, overheating your brain, turning you into a veggie instead of letting you suffer a quick, clean death, etc., etc. leads some of those less informed souls who believe these logical-sounding-but-wrong axioms to shun helmets in the belief that they are protecting themselves. So fewer people wear them and more people die and--more importantly--suffer devastating, debilitating injuries that could have been avoided with a helmet, and more boor-o-crats and families with dead or disabled loved ones scream for helmet laws. Don't try to talk people who might choose to wear helmets out of doing so; they are helping your cause. The simple, honest argument against helmet laws--"I don't like to wear a helmet, and I don't believe that this is the kind of country where we tell people they must protect themselves"--is the best. But don't spread potentially damaging BS to try to make a false point.