Study: 1 In 3 Americans Text And Drive

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133. Simple analogy for you.

Would you agree that using a gun is a inherently risky behavior? Yes, of course, you do. Do you or don't you reason that minimizing risk when you use a gun is important? Of course. Proper gun training is important in that regards. Always leaving on the safety is important in that regards. Never pointing a gun loaded or not at someone you do not intend to shoot is important.

Playing with a gun while you are drinking is riskier behavior with a gun. Playing at 'shooting' your friend by pointing a gun loaded or not at them is riskier behavior with a gun. Cleaning and maintaining a gun while children are in the room is riskier behavior.

Driving a car using your logic is no different. Driving a car is inherently dangerous. That is your single argument in this entire thread. Therefore, since you do a riskier behavior, texting, 'safely' right now and have not caused any accidents yet, then it is ok for you to continue to do so. Studies continue to show that it is a major distraction and therefore an increasingly riskier behavior in the already risky act of driving.

Your continued attempts to argue for your ability to text while driving are no different than you attempting to argue that well you have always cleaned your gun around your children and no one has gotten hurt. Well, you have had a glass or two of wine before and then gone to the gun range and everything has turned out fine thus far. That behavior would be rightly considered dangerous and an increased risk to an already risky endeavor. At a shooting range, they will kick your ass out if you are drinking and increasing the risk of danger to others. Maybe no one in your family will say stop cleaning the gun around your children, but if you were cleaning your gun in public around kids, then what do you think the consequences would be? You are demanding the right to do what you want to do. Fine if you lived in a vacuum. You do not. Driving on the public roads is just that - public. We, the public, have been shown strong arguments and enough proof that driving while texting increases distraction levels and leads to more accidents many of them quite deadly.

So again, your freedom to risk texting while driving is not equal to my or others safety on a public freeway. No you can not convince me with rhetoric which is all that you are offering. You can pretend that I am arrogant or a 'true believer' but no, I am just an adult that recognizes that my independent freedom is always a compromising and delicate balance between my will and desires and the world of others that I exist in.