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I conduct a significant amount of my working interviews with people who are talking to me via their cel phones while driving, the most convenient times for them to chat with me. The more legitimate, successful, entrepreneurial, and prosperous the person, the more likely he or she is speaking to me from a hands-free device. Almost all volunteer the info that they refuse to speak on a hand-held piece while driving NOT for fear of getting a ticket, but because they know and respect their limitations. I rarely deal with someone speaking from a hand-held phone.

Considering that my livelihood hinges on being able to talk to these people, I should agree with driftdiver that folks with jammers "should be hung" and that "there ought to be a law" is just another invasion of freedom. I halfway agree with the latter -- the decision belongs to the states, not the Feds. But I love too many motorcyclists among my family and friends, and live in the thick of too many very fast freeways and city thoroughfares where speed from stoplight to stoplight easily gets up to 55 and 60 mph, to think jammers wouldn't result in a lot of saved lives over morons too self-absorbed to know and respect their own limitations when they endanger the lives of innocents for the vanity of chatting on a cel phone or texting a message.

Considering that my livelihood hinges on
being able to talk to these people

I've had a cellphone since 1987
original “Sack Phone”
It was very freeing, as I'm a physician

But I pull off the road and stop,
to talk on the phone.
I hate killing people,
it ruins my day

Having been put at risk for mortal harm
magnifies my concerns about cell phone use in cars

You can always return a call
but a life is nor replaceable

A jammer is a small harm, relatively
But it is illegal...