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Editor,

I got my first car with seat belts when my child was 2. It took at least three stops on the 20 minutes to town to put him back in them. I realized how worth it this training was when I hit a patch of black ice and ended up in the ditch. In the seat belt I remained in some control. The training of my child was worth it.

While fishing under a bridge near Columbia Falls with him when he was 5, we saw garbage being thrown into the river every few minutes — another life lesson.

Some people without the benefit of these kind of lessons need rules and laws to do the responsible thing...