With the host of bills that our state legislature is considering I am distraught ("New state legislation looks to minimize distraction to drivers" SN 3/23). If we need a law preventing a woman from breast-feeding while driving 75 mph down the expressway, how could common sense still exist? There wouldn't be a bill to ban large dogs from riding in their drivers' laps if it isn't a common occurrence. Society has forgotten how to think before it acts.

I hope the laws before the legislature pass and become deterrents to senseless acts, but they shouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, there will still be men shaving and women applying makeup en route to work. Parents will still turn around to discipline their kids, and hurried businesspersons will carelessly use their phones on the expressway. We can't possibly make every distraction illegal. I only ask that common sense be invited back into our lives.

Thomas Codd
interdisciplinary humanities junior