Traffic fatalities up 9 percent - texting and social media partly to blame (1 Viewer)

[Saint_Ward]

School bus, schmool bus.

The driver in the other car.. I'm totally that guy. "what the heck are you doing?"

 

[BHM]

Yea people should be required to have a license to use one and carry insurance in case it causes harm to others.., wait ..

Yeah, that works so well we all have to have uninsured motorist coverage because so many people drive around with no liability insurance and expired drivers license. Should work for guns though right.

 

[BHM]

Seriously, one week of a concentrated effort to stamp it out by police. Ticket and fine everyone.

We can not even do that for drunk drivers.

But if that would work the we should do that with all crime and stamp it all out.

 

[Saint_Ward]

This is me if I'm a passenger (rare) and the driver is texting or looking at their phone (other than looking at map directions)

 

[Saint_Ward]

We can not even do that for drunk drivers.

State Sobriety Checkpoint Laws

It's not like law enforcement ignores it though.

 

[BHM]

Anyway, stupid is the problem
Stupid behind a wheel and stupid behind a gun are both bad and should be avoided

So we agree that the problem is not the car or the gun but the person operating it?

 

[Det. Brees]

This is me if I'm a passenger (rare) and the driver is texting or looking at their phone (other than looking at map directions)

you have nice ears... and fury palms

 

[Saint_Ward]

you have nice ears... and fury palms

You hittin on me?


There is a meme with this image, but it's got profanity in it, so I can't use it.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

So we agree that the problem is not the car or the gun but the person operating it?

if we also agree that stupid on a bike and stupid with a knife are FAR less dangerous than the counterparts

 

[BHM]

State Sobriety Checkpoint Laws

It's not like law enforcement ignores it though.

No but if we can not get a week long campaign to stamp out drunk driving then we dang sure will not be able to stamp out texting and driving that way either. We have people on the road with 3 dwi convictions. Unfortunately a couple of texting tickets will not deter many people.

 

[BHM]

if we also agree that stupid on a bike and stupid with a knife are FAR less dangerous than the counterparts

Deal. I agree that guns on their own are more dangerous than knives if you agree that guns don't kill people.

Can we shake on that?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

No but if we can not get a week long campaign to stamp out drunk driving then we dang sure will not be able to stamp out texting and driving that way either. We have people on the road with 3 dwi convictions. Unfortunately a couple of texting tickets will not deter many people.

this is one of those 'perfect being the enemy of the good" arguments that we like so much on this board
just because we can't eliminate something doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to lessen it as much as we can

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Deal. I agree that guns on their own are more dangerous than knives if you agree that guns don't kill people.

Can we shake on that?

k...but it's going to have to be one of these so i know you're not packing

 

[BHM]

this is one of those 'perfect being the enemy of the good" arguments that we like so much on this board
just because we can't eliminate something doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to lessen it as much as we can

I was referring to the poster that asked for a week long campaign to stamp it out.


But yes we can try to lesson it as much as we can.

 

[BHM]

k...but it's going to have to be one of these so i know you're not packing

Cool but fyi, I swing a mighty sword.