Helmets: a victimless crime

Oregon is a helmet state and most folks want to be safe so there isn't much complaining except from the loud bike and tatoo crowd. If I were a governor tho, I'd repeal helmet laws with the following caveat: If you don't wear a helmet and you decant your brain on a guard rail, once your insurance company and family financial resources have been exhausted, we yank the plug and toss vegetable boy into the dumpster.

People intent on 'personal rights' should also assume personal responsibility for their actions.  

It makes good sense to wear a bucket and if a bud of mine had been wearing his , he would be here today . No major damage except to the head and he wasn't going very fast . Bad idea to dictate to folks what to do with their person . The various governmental bodys have way to much contol over us now and it's getting worse . If there is no victim , where is the crime ?  

I'd be dead if I had to wear helmets. Between senile old coots in Cadillacs trying to ignore me off the road and indulged McDonald's muchin', cellphone yackin' fools, it's a wonder I'm here now. It's already been proven the mandatory use jacks up fatalies. If you're that paranoid, stay off the bike, you create your own problems.  

Are you saying that impaired peripheral vision if you wore a helmet is the reason for your salvation???

Given that the standards for a full face helmet is about the normal  peripheral for Americans, I'd be hard pressed to buy that argument.  And, given that a full face is the most limiting of all helmets, none of the others is going to interfere with vision, you have no case.

Especially since you couldn't even be bothered to tell how the lack of helmet saved your brain. And, you never read any of the studies that show that the brain bucket saves lives, and reduces injuries.

Please tell your lurid lies to the stupid.  

This is getting silly, now. Helmets are proven to reduce the severity of non-fatal head injuries. They are also proven to reduce cosmetic head injuries. Improperly fitted full face helmets, that rotated on impact, have been associated with a very small number of fatalities among what were otherwise minor injuries.

Generally speaking, fatal head injuries are also accompanied by fatal bodily injuries. Nobody has ever been able to prove that wearing a helmet has actually prevented or caused any statistically significant number of deaths. Nobody has ever been able to prove that wearing a helmet that provides lesser protection has resulted in  greater number of deaths than wearing a more protective helmet.

What has been proven is that, if you don't wear a helmet and you survive the crash, you are more likely to have brain damage and need cosmetic surgery than survivors who wore helmets. Everything else is opinions and unproven.

regards,
Joe  

Joe,
Ditto.That not wearing a helmet is safer is akin to not wear a seatbelt in a car.Ludicrous,especially when the stats are overwhelming.
Luke