NTSB recommends nationwide ban on cell phones while driving

I don't think you're attacking.

I'm actually not as humorless and self-serious as you guys all think I am.

 

Seat belt laws are unconstitutional as are helmet laws and these selective bans on what constitutes being distracted while driving are nothing more than nanny state creating bogeymen to justify creation of new laws and-or regulations.

Nothing more, nothing less

 

My right to swing my fist ends at another man's nose.

This isn't within 1,000 zip codes of being unconstitutional.

 

You don't have the right to end somebody's life over a phone conversation.

 

No one must ever tell anyone anywhere what to do. Including telling them that they aren't to tell anyone not to tell anyone anything.

 

Unless we are going to ban changing radio stations, eating, reading, doing make up and the 100 other things people do while drivong this is a classic example of creating hysteria and a bogeyman and selectively singling it out for the purpose of growing government and sapping our freedoms even more.

The fact that so many are so willing to give up their freedom, their privacy, their individual wealth under some ridiculous guise of "the greater good" is the exact reason our government continues to grow out of control and is becoming as heavy handed and overreaching as any regime or reich in the history of the world

 

You still have not addressed how it is "unconstitutional."

 

To my mind, there are two reasons you target a particular behavior as dangerous.

First of all, you target it because it is extremely, extremely dangerous. This is why you can't shoot ants with handguns in public parks.

Second of all, you target it because it is extremely, extremely pervasive, and likely to cause injury just because of sheer numbers.

Cell phone use falls squarely in category No. 2.

 

zag, under your rationale would drunk driving be illegal?

 

You are not entitled to use a cell phone. Or drive. Or do both at once.

 

Dick, by chance do you have those numbers?

Just curious to see them.

 

Of people who use cell phones while driving?