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Since they're marching because they're told to, not on their own initiative, they'll do it when the left takes saving lives as a real priority. But since they want to ban guns not save lives don't hold your breath waiting for them to care about texting and driving over guns.
The person you replied to did not specify teen drivers, just teens. That could include passengers where the driver, regardless of age, was texting, and teens in vehicles struck by a texting driver.
Texting while driving kills and injures thousands every year. Many more than guns. 11 teens die every day from texting while driving. But, no protests. Why?
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The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.
Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.
Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.
94% of drivers support a ban on texting while driving.
74% of drivers support a ban on hand-held cell phone use.
11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving.
According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.
21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.
Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near-crashes when talking or texting on a cell phone.
A teen driver with only one additional passenger doubles the risk of getting into a fatal car accident. With two or more passengers, they are 5x as likely.
So... to be clear, people can't march for more than one thing? Or, are you claiming our society is utterly unable to address more than one issue at a time and until "the biggest threat" is eliminated, everything else should be ignored?.
You typically treat the bullet wound before the paper cut...
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Originally Posted by Haakon
Since they're marching because they're told to, not on their own initiative, they'll do it when the left takes saving lives as a real priority. But since they want to ban guns not save lives don't hold your breath waiting for them to care about texting and driving over guns.
Well said. You'll also notice marching among members of the black community yet silence when Chicago and Baltimore "gets shot up" every night. Folks need to treat the bullet wound before the paper cut.
So... to be clear, people can't march for more than one thing? Or, are you claiming our society is utterly unable to address more than one issue at a time and until "the biggest threat" is eliminated, everything else should be ignored?
Is that now what the right is grasping at? "Well, other things kill more people, so guns are fine!" Based on that "logic," smoking is fine, too, since you're still more likely to die in a car crash.
If we're going to toss numbers around, you're over 50 times more likely to die by a gun in the US than by a terrorist, so I guess we shouldn't bother hunting terrorists, either.
Seriously, the "debate" on this forum is mostly good just for laughs.
What else are these students marching/protesting?
People generally march/protest for those things that directly affect them and their well being. If mass school shootings is one because of safety and the loss of life why not issues related to teens that take more lives like texting and driving, drinking and driving, the ridiculous number so kids on pharmaceuticals for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bullying, exclusion and those things that drive students to bring guns to school.
When will adults stop smoking cigarettes that kill countless people every year? When will adults stop speeding in cars, killing and injuring millions per year? When will adults stop drinking and driving, that not only is illegal, but that puts every other driver on the road in danger? And finally, when will adults stop talking on their cell phones and texting while driving ?
When all of those things are done by ADULTS, then maybe we can start trying to teach our kids to stop texting too.
es, people got upset and blamed doctors and pharma companies when opioids became a problem and lots of young people started dying due to these drugs, but even with MADD/SADD, NO ONE ever suggested to hold the alcohol industry responsible, or blamed the stores that sold this deadly product (tobacco too).
So I guess its OK to target the distributors and manufacturers of SOME deadly products, but not others! LOL And I always thought 'big pharma' was sooo powerful and held so much sway....apparently tobacco and alcohol industries have the real power/influence!
Texting while driving kills and injures thousands every year. Many more than guns. 11 teens die every day from texting while driving. But, no protests. Why?
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The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.
Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.
Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.
94% of drivers support a ban on texting while driving.
74% of drivers support a ban on hand-held cell phone use.
11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving.
According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.
21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.
Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near-crashes when talking or texting on a cell phone.
A teen driver with only one additional passenger doubles the risk of getting into a fatal car accident. With two or more passengers, they are 5x as likely.
When will adults stop smoking cigarettes that kill countless people every year? When will adults stop speeding in cars, killing and injuring millions per year? When will adults stop drinking and driving, that not only is illegal, but that puts every other driver on the road in danger? And finally, when will adults stop talking on their cell phones and texting while driving ?
When all of those things are done by ADULTS, then maybe we can start trying to teach our kids to stop texting too.
Maybe we should just ban adults and confiscate them.
The thread is invalid, but your response was ridiculous.
Because the goal of the anti Second Amendment, gun grabbers is to disarm law abiding citizens, and get guns out of the hands of private citizens. The goal is not to reduce deaths, nor violence. If it were our government, Fed, State, and Local would have addressed the inner city, black on black violence decades ago.
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