California Teen Cell Phone Use Ban While Driving

[TheDragoon]

Around here every spring and fall we get icy roads. They kill many more people than cell phone use, but still not as many as drunks. Should we ban driving in icy conditions? We also have lots and lots of deer. They run at high speeds at dusk and dawn all the time and get people killed.

This is a poor analogy. Using a cell phone is an entirely controllable personal choice. The weather and actions of deer are environmental problems that are out of our realm of control.

Here's a similar analogy to put things in prospective:
In 2002 there were over 500,000 deaths due to cancer. In 2004 there were around 30,000 deaths due to guns. Clearly, gun control is not nearly the problem that cancer is yet there are no laws against cancer, so why are we bothering to have laws against gun violence?

Or how about old age, maybe we should ban that as well.