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A Simple Observation
If half the stuff the anti-2nd Amendment advocates claim were true, all of the left-leaning media outlets would being doing hidden camera exposés on it. We would be inundated with stories of underage kids, felons, and other prohibited individuals purchasing guns. Everyone talks about the “gun show loophole” but nobody produces evidence of it. That’s because they know better. The system works 99.98 percent of the time.
Published in Guns
So if I’m a passenger in a car I can’t use my cellphone?
Also, is there a way to account for the phone user’s compulsion to use the phone? More drivers are entering the pool with their formative years closely connected to devices. It may never be proven, but I wonder if there is a correlation?
Correct…enter technology solutions time apps, to permit users to exercise judgement, and be accountable.
It is no wonder car manufacturers resisted.
Imagine lawsuits founded on a death resulting from a non-driver. Being blocked from using a phone.
I have to click an acceptance screen, every time I power up my 7 year old standalone GPS device. Because user responsibility.
One set of numbers is looking at the number of deaths, period. The other set is looking at the ratio between the number of deaths and the number of miles driven. When more people are driving more miles, you can have a decrease in the fatalities per 100 million miles even though there is a net increase in fatalities.
And are licensed. A permit generally runs a few hundred bucks.