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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.
Cell phones were designed as a communication tool.
Automatic weapons were designed for what again?
Not really, they were designed as a communication tool, BUT some are abusing that and its leading to accidents and death. Normally they target access to products like this when they start becoming a problem, even if the majority use them as they should.
Opioid prescription drugs are a great example of this, a very small percentage of users started abusing them, the response was to target access to these drugs, even effecting the people that never abused them and took them as they were instructed.
[quote=Roadking2003;51432547]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.
Automatic weapons are for the military and are not available to the ordinary citizen, so your point falls sadly flat.
The AR15 and similar were a takeoff on a weapon designed for killing people primarily. They certainly have other uses but that does not change the design intent.
NVplumber pointed out on another thread that the original pitch as an assault weapon was in fact made by the gun industry and among gun enthusiasts.
So yest the primary design intent was a people killer. The weapons usefulness for that purpose was demonstrated on Oct 1.
The founders intended for the people to be able to protect themselves from the government.
True but clearly overridden by the grand conspiracy. At the time of the founders it may actually have been a rational approach. However it is not rational in the present context.
True but clearly overridden by the grand conspiracy. At the time of the founders it may actually have been a rational approach. However it is not rational in the present context.
But its interpretation has...that is the grand conspiracy... Virtually no one on the thinking gun side is willing to support the original intent. But they also recognize it is pretty close to an immutable amendment. So they have reinterpreted it to change the obvious intent.
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