Funny you should mention seatbelts. I've worn my seatbelt every time I've operated a car or truck on a public road. I couldn't imagine not wearing it. Long before they were legally required, I wore mine. One of my earliest memories from several decades ago is of my mother getting out of a very serious speeding ticket because when the officer approached our 1969 Toyota Corona, he saw me belted in the back seat and her belted in the front. This was, to say the least, highly uncommon in that era. But it's always been SOP for me. HOWEVER, had I grown up in earlier decades in a family which didn't trust seat belts, and the government started ordering me to wear one, I'd come up with all sorts of horror stories about seat belts rupturing spleens, seatbelts freezing up in car fires, face plants into steering wheels before shoulder belts, you name it. It would be a NEW RESTRICTION, and I'd rebel. Currently I live in a state where I need not wear a motorcycle helmet. I love it downtown, I now can actually see and hear cars around me. But on the open road I wear a 3/4 helmet. Why? Because I learned to ride in a state which required helmets all the time.
Had S&W put locks on all their double action revolvers from the beginning, and incorporated the locks into the design instead of drilling them in a way and location that makes it look like a demilitarization cut, we'd accept them, even if we worried about malfunctions. But having them PUT THERE under some governmental duress and in a fugly way sets off the alarm bells on everything from aesthetics to safety.
