When is the government going to stop shoving new laws down our throats?

Every time you turn around someone tells us you can't do this, you can't do that. You have to wear a seat belt, you have to wear a helmet to ride a bike, you can't use a phone when your driving (except the cops). You have to wear a life jacket in a boat.

Whatever happened to our choices to do what we think is right for ourselves. If you don't wear a seat belt in a car and you get hurt in an accident (oh well, that was your choice). At least you had a choice and wasn't forced to do something.

I realize that all these laws are to protect people, but it should be up to you if you want to follow them (and not be forced to). Maybe I'm wrong, but I think there are a lot of people that feel the same way.

Leave us alone and let us do what's good for ourselves. I am sure when you were young your mother wasn't sitting on your shoulder saying do this, don't do that. She let us learn by doing, or by mistake, whichever.

Jim Smith

Auburn