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Alright, please tell me how not wearing a seat belt helps in a carjacking in any way?
It's actually incredibly helpful! For the carjackers. They can just pull you out instead of having to threaten you to unbuckle and then pull you out. It skips a whole step!
I don't wear a seatbelt when I'm in DC and I've never been carjacked once...I just walk, take the metro and ride an occasional bus to get around.
So is not wearing a seat belt a euphemism for not driving? What a weird way to say that statement.
Not in the senator’s case. He was talking about how he drives himself, and doesn’t wear a seatbelt in his jeep in case he gets carjacked because he “doesn’t want to be slowed down.”
Because we’re all familiar with the scourge of carjackings that became murders when people took the 5 seconds to undo their seatbelts.
The implication is that I don't have to worry about any of it because I just don't drive in DC. Public transportation in DC is perfectly fine when there's at least one functioning escalator.
Oh damn, sorry. I thought you were quoting him rather than expanding with your own experience.
Still not sure why the Senator in the post doesn't wear a seat belt.
I can't think of a scenario. It gives you time to put the car in reverse and knock them down with the open door.