A Vote Against the Helmet Law
Gov. Pete Wilson said “over 700 motorcyclists would be alive today had a helmet law been in effect years ago,” yet he is not concerned with the much greater body count from automobile accidents and tobacco usage.
How many of the 400,000 people who died from tobacco products last year, at a cost to our economy of $96 billion, would not have died had tobacco been banned?
As a motorcyclist of 38 years, having never broken a bone on my motorcycle, I resent the state telling me I must wear a helmet in case I get hit by an uninsured motorist, who should not have been on the road in the first place. ( I have always had medical insurance and uninsured motorist coverage, because of people like this.)
PHILIP PSZENNY
Oxnard
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