In that we agree, driftdiver, and also that a whole lotta young, stupid, speedy motorcyclists are dangerous maroons. I see them and hear them all the time, as we live on a scenic/challenging backroad that has become famous in motorcycle circles. Young, arrogant, dangerous motorcyclists are easily outnumbered 100-fold by average, arrogant, dangerous folks who need only to have the desire to talk and text behind the wheel to be lethal, not to learn how to ride a motorcycle and make it their passion.
I don't know what the answer is and I'm with you in that I don't think it can be rooted very firmly in government regulation, but the insistence that hand-held talking/texting while driving is just something "we" have to accept and it's not THAT bad anyway ... is denial. It's a serious problem and will take a serious solution. Private lawbreakers with jammers may be the ultimate "solution" because when the law fails (as it already has in Ca -- people talk and text all the time) but the problem grows (as it will because of arrogant self-absorbed twits who don't know their own limitations and who think vanity talking/texting while driving is a God-given right), citizens will take matters into their own hands. You talk about "hanging" jammers; I think a lot more would rather see texters/talkers hanged. THAT would certainly solve the problem.
I recoil at government regulations, but those put forth by a state ... are that state's rights according to its citizens.
Peer pressure can be a wonderful thing. No need for more revenue generation.