{"id":6986,"date":"2009-01-12T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2009-01-12T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T13:51:41","slug":"you-cant-legislate-common-sense-jonn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6986","title":{"rendered":"You can’t legislate common sense [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"

My morning perusal of the news brought this little gem to light from Fox News\/AP<\/a> about the National Safety Council’s push for a national cell phone ban for drivers;<\/p>\n

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A national safety group is advocating a total ban on cell phone use while driving, saying the practice is clearly dangerous and leads to fatalities.<\/p>\n

States should ban drivers from using hand-held and hands-free cell phones, and businesses should prohibit employees from using cell phones while driving on the job, the congressionally chartered National Safety Council says, taking those positions for the first time.<\/p>\n

The group’s president and chief executive, Janet Froetscher, likened talking on cell phones to drunken driving, saying cell phone use increases the risk of a crash fourfold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m convinced that the reason we have so many law breakers in our society is because we have so many laws. People used to do the right things because it was polite or because it made sense. Now, nearly every aspect of our lives is regulated, it’s easy to break a law or regulation without even realizing it. Once a person breaks one law, it’s easier to break the next one.<\/p>\n

In Washington, DC, we banned cell phone use while driving without a “hands-free” device in 2004. A local TV station<\/a> did an “observational” survey on DuPont Circle a few weeks ago. Here’s their results;<\/p>\n

Cell phone use had dropped about 50% in 2004. About six months later that was sustained but we don’t really know if that has been sustained over the long term yet. We have to go back and take another study, but based on the experience in other places where we have done these surveys, it’s unlikely these laws are having much effect,” said Russ Rader, a spokesman for The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what’s the answer? Write more laws that no one will obey. Doesn’t that make sense? I guarantee if we made our legislative bodies part time (and paid them part time wages) the result would be a whole lot less writing laws to make themselves feel good, but having little effect. Maybe they’d just use their brief time in session to focus on their duties instead of intruding on our private lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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