>     I dissagree
  >     with the idea of people being a slave to the goverment rather
  >     than a active part of it . This is all I say!
How are you, personally, playing an active role in your current
government?  And at what level (local, state, federal)?
CM>     New laws are passed daily,that you did not vote for and nor did
  >     you vote for your elected offical to pass them because I am sure
  >     there are laws being written you have know forehand kmowledge of
  >     and these laws take freedom away form you . Case in point : no
  >     clild under the age of 16 shall ride a bycycle in the state of GA.
  >     unless the are waring a helmet. Sounds like a good law to me if you
  >     make the helemts :) Though I am not opposed to good public safty
  >     laws, the people were never ask to vote.
That's the law in New Jersey, too.  I approve of the law.  Are you aware
of how many thousands of kids are killed or seriously brain damaged
every year because of not wearing a helmet?  Mario has brought home lots
of stats on that for me to read, and we enforced helmets on our kids
(and on us, too) *before* it was a law here.  It probably saved my son,
Robert's, life at one time.  He was doing some stunt riding one time.
Well, he did stunt riding a lot.  He was trying to fly between ramps
when his bicycle flipped; and he was thrown. He landed smack on his head
so hard it cracked the bicycle helmet.  He walked away uninjured. He
would not have been uninjured if he had not had that helmet on.
Until it became law here, Robert and Christine were the only kids in
the neighborhood wearing helmets.  Even parents who knew the stats on
injuries didn't bother enforcing the helmet rule over their kids squeals
of "but nobody else does it, and it'll make me look like a nerd."  Now
that the parents will get fined if their kids don't wear helmets,
everybody wears them.
By the way, after Robert landed on his head and cracked the helmet, he
never again complained about wearing a helmet.
                      Sondra
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