. What I am about to propose may raise the ire of those ardent free speech amendment addicts who claim an inalienable right to speak freely whenever and however they please. Like the NRA on gun control, this issue relates directly to protecting our inalienable rights under the constitution.
I support the free speech part of the constitution. But, I have some strong feelings about the use of cell phones to exercise that right.
This morning, on my way to my morning coffee club, I was closely followed by a young lady who was steering her car with her elbows while she was sending text messages via her cell phone. She seemed to be punching out messages with her thumbs!
I assumed that women cell phone users caused more accidents than men, and my reasoning was simple. Men have an advantage. Most of us learned to drive with one hand while we were still in high school. But texting? Give me a break!
While we have a driver’s license that authorizes us to drive a car, it does not give us the right to drive 80 miles an hour through downtown Warrensburg. It’s the same principle with cell phones. While we have the right of free speech, it doesn’t give us the right to talk on our cell phones while we are driving a car on city streets or highways. Why? Because it is dangerous, mostly to those who aren’t even in your car!
I propose that the same penalties for speeding, reckless driving, or driving under the influence, be applied to those idiots who have to stay in constant touch with both their friends while driving a motor vehicle of any kind. And if a driver is using a cell phone and there is an accident, the cell phone user is automatically at fault.
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Incidentally, when I got to my morning coffee club, there were four women at the table next to us who were texting each other! While a bit odd, in my book, that would be legal since they weren’t driving.
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