Re: Cell phone driving = drunk driving

Pat wrote:
> On Feb 24, 1:15 pm, donquijote1954 <nolionnoprob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 9:32 pm, Eric Vey <jun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Pat wrote:
>>>> You-all need to move to someplace sane.  Around here, there's no
>>>> relation****p between cell phone use and driving.
>>> You live out in the woods or something? If you took the cell phones
away
>>> from people here, there would be an open revolt. The President can
>>> commit war crimes and that's okay so long as you don't take away
>>> people's cell phones. Having a cell phone is their God given right,
like
>>> owning a gun. I own both, but somehow I suspect that people would give
>>> up their guns before they gave up their cell phones.
>> A few states don't allow cell phones, and I believe NY is one of them.
> 
> Banning cell phones is an incredibly stupid law.  What does it do?  It
> makes people openly and blantanly ignore the law.  So when our kids
> see it, they see us breaking the law.  It teaches them that adults
> sometimes feel that it's okay to break the rules.  It's an incredibly
> bad thing for the kids to see.  But it's just a stupid, stupid law.

I don't know of any state that has outlawed cell phones while driving. 
But you ought to know that yours is a pretty poor argument. Some people 
use that same argument when talking about the outlawing of crack. Do you 
think crack should be legalized because of that argument?