Number of carjackings in DC:
Number of car crashes in DC:
Not wearing a seat belt makes you 30 times more likely to be ejected during a crash:
This man does not understand mathematics!!!
I appreciate that you tried to steer the discussion to be more about how driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous than the bullshit this politician is fearmongering about, but this is still pretty off-topic. I’m not removing it this time (in part because there was already a significant number of comments by the time I noticed it), but I was pretty on-the-fence about it and similar posts are likely to be removed in the future.
A black guy got his window punched out and was dragged out of his car and beat up by the cops for “not wearing a seatbelt”. Anyone who doesn’t carry proof of citizenship can be hauled away by ICE on the pretext of “not wearing a searbelt”. But sure, tell everyone how your white privilege lets you get away with not wearing one, fuckface.
That’s class privilege in my opinion. But I suppose I could consider - why not both?
Would a white guy of the same income level be subject to the same treatment?
No shit it’s both, have you never heard of intersectionality before?
To be fair he could think that carjacking means masturbating while driving.
Honestly, that makes more sense than not wearing a seat belt so people won’t forcibly take your car. How is that even supposed to help?
It’s not so they won’t forcibly take your car, it’s so you won’t get tangled up in the seatbelt when they yank you out. Stupid any way you look at it considering how unlikely one thing is to happen vs the other, but at least there is some logic to it.
Shhh. Just let this one go, man.
Markwayne Mullin? The guy who was with Jan 6 rioters?
You misspelled “insurrectionists”
traitors
coup goons
Wouldn’t it be easier to remove you from the car while being car jacked if your seatbelt is off? Should keep it on so any thieves can’t just pull you out. 🤷♂️
I assume its code for making it easier to reach over to the glove box, where his gun is.
I actually did this to my friend who refused to wear seat belt who also didnt lock her car. I just ran up while she was on phone and pulled her 100lbs self out. Learned her lesson right there. BTW she had several stalkers so I scared the crap out her but that was the point. If I can do easily its over if someone who wanted to hurt her tried.
Nice try, stalker
If i was a stalker that would have been successful. Which was the point.
How weirdly controlling and abusive of you.
Trying to get your friend to lock doors and wear a seat belt regularly? Particularly when she is also concerned about ppl hurting her?
I guess I should have just said my piece and just let the dice fall wherever.
That first paragraph is you admitting it is about control.
Yes, that’s how bodily autonomy works - you say your piece and let people do what they want with their own body. She literally could have had you arrested and charged with assault, maybe battery depending on her injuries. You don’t get to grab others with your no no grabby hands. Didn’t you learn that in preschool?
Yeah I guess she could have if I was wasn’t the person she called to come over when she was scared at night and wasn’t her flatmate for a year before this event. At the time she was a sister to me and my SO and watching her not listen to basic safety was frustrating. If she wasn’t, I would have sat back and let fate take its course.
I respect your perspective but in this case for me anyway its better to try something than a event happening and regretting I could have tried harder to prevent this and didnt.
Codependency isn’t an excuse to assault someone.
I don’t hurt my sisters. “Like a sister” - you attacked her. Not only could you be charged with a crime, she also could completely reasonably use legal lethal force against you in that scenario in many states. FYI most killers are known to their victims beforehand, so that you know her actually makes you more likely to kill her compared to a stranger.
You just don’t want to let go of abusing others so you are making excuses.
Hardly consider it codependency. Unless all close bonds are considered that. Which is why me doing it was not an issue but if someone else did yeah it would have been.
Like if my mom cut a lock of my hair would I be annoyed and kick her in the shin? sure. I would demand a explaination but not go nuclear. Some person I barely know? Hell to pay.
what’s important is the view the people involved have here. I doubt if I apologized today it would be accepted because no one involved view it as a problem.
In this case, nothing of value would be lost if he did a quick eject out the front window.
Natural selection
All of these GOP tough guys are such fragile pathetic babies.
Why are we giving this attention. Clearly it’s just a dumb statement meant to get shared around and enforce the myth that DC is run by gangs.
Would suck if there was a reason for him to slam on his brakes…. Like Luigi dropping a banana
Sound like this will work itself out.
File this one under fuck around. We’ll refile under find out later.
I mean, you didn’t need to say more than “Oklahoma Senator” for me to know that he was an idiot, but the rest confirmed it. If you’re so scared, go back to OKC.
The best part is how this would absolutely work if I was getting pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. /s
