Okay, let's see here...It's been suggested in this thread that there's some kind of correlation between walking down the sidewalk at, say, 4mph, AND driving down the street at, say, 50mph in a car, WITH riding a motorcyle at, say, 50mph. And, that the likelihood of said banana peel or maybe an unrepaired crack in said sidewalk causing at this "tremendous speed" of 4mph of walking speed, OR being ENCLOSED within in a steel reinforced cage while becoming involved in an accident has the comparable RISK FACTOR of SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA as riding a motorcycle sans helmet, RIGHT?!
Well, all can say here is that I TOO would prefer that the government stay out of the business of mandating the use of helmets, HOWEVER, please excuse me here if I think that ANYBODY who believes that all of the above scenarios have an EQUAL CHANCE of happening and an EQUAL MEASURE of potential injury is THEN somebody who probably DOESN'T NEED to wear a "brain bucket", because they just don't seem to be usin' that part of their body that goes into one ANYWAY!!!
(well, at LEAST that part of the body which encompasses the ability to ponder such things as the "LAWS OF PROBABILITY" anyway!)
