So the 'everybody needs to wear a helmet' expert openly admits that as a percentage, fatalities for motorcyclists has stayed constant, when correcting for the number of motorcycles and amount of miles ridden... yet because 'deaths are on the rise' as a raw number, we need more legislation? Weak argument. Cars are A LOT safer than they were in the '60's, which accounts for the constant # of deaths (and thereby falling % for cagers) when you consider # of cars and miles driven.
Fed.gov has no business in this... kinda not in their constitutional mandate. Maybe, just maybe, at some point they'll get the stuff they're REQUIRED to do (i.e. pass a damn budget) worked out and at that point I'd be willing to entertain discussion about stuff like this. But until they get the stuff they're supposed to be doing taken care of, they need to STFU about everything else.
Just my $.02
