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I did read your post and saw that you made your children wear helmets. I'm glad to hear that. So do we...Our oldest will be 5 this month so he is not old enough to be riding an ATV just yet. He only rides a bike & skateboard.

You say that this law has nothing to do with child safety and rather a way for government to come onto your property without a warrant...that is your interepretation of it...I don't think its about government finding another way to come onto your property. I honestly thinks its a way to convince more parents of the safety of helmets and to help prevent more deaths. Officials are trying to scare people into using helmets. They shouldn't have to do this because obviously parents should know that their children as well as themselves need to wear helmets. But believe me and I'm sure you know this as well that there are people out there that have no business being parents but they are still parents. There are a whole lot of uneducated/unaware people in this world. I think this law is meant for them.

I also agree with what you are saying about smoking. There definitely should be more strict laws against smoking. I'm all for it.

As far as more and more laws coming into place, I think some if not most of them are necessary...We seem to have an overpopulation of idiots parading around as parents...

child safety is a crutch the government uses .... look at the seat belt law for your car at first it was a secondary law (meaning you had to be pulled over for something else before you to get a ticket for it ) it has become a primary law now and they can pull you over when they see you not wearing it... if smoking ever became illegal would it be ok for the police to give you a fine for smoking in your home ....?

how many of these children do you think had parental supervision... penalize for no supervision ... (then you can add the helmet into it.)

what is going to stop ky from making a law that states that your child has to wear a helmet when riding a bike ... on public property .... on private property .... ?