Cell phone safety regulations needed?
About 1.6 million accidents occur every year due to people using their cellphones. Some 300,000 of those accidents alone are from texting while driving. One out of every four car accidents in the U.S. is caused by texting while driving. A half-million injuries or deaths occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cellphones killed about 16,000 people in the U.S. from year 2001 to year 2007.
I am the owner of four handguns, which I have fired only at legal ranges. I don't expect to use any of them for any reason except self-defense against lawbreakers who illegally enter my home intending to rob me or do bodily harm to me.
A question to gun grabbers who would rather I didn't own my guns for self protection: Who poses the bigger threat, people like me or the ones who talk and text on their cellphones while driving?
The answer is obvious, but the solution to the problem isn't to make it difficult to buy cellphones or mandating stringent rules such as making drivers keep their phones in the car trunk. Or on second thought ... maybe that would solve the problem.
Gene Maril
Arlington Heights