HappySqurriel on 19 March 2009
While I agree with the general sentiment of the original post, that isolated incidents or statistically insignificant situations should not be used to make laws, I’m not so sure that a helmet law would fall into this category; head injuries are one of the more common forms of serious injury, and a large portion of those injuries are entirely preventable from wearing a helmet.
A better example of something that would be pointless to generate a law about would be the incident (last year) where a man had a psychotic episode on a bus, murdered a man and decapitated him. Whether you generate laws based on the event or not, it is unlikely that something similar will ever happen again.
