Please stop avoiding the question. It is a simply question: do you think new laws should be written that specifically address and specify “no texting while operating a motor vehicle”?
Yes. Unless the driver has four arms.
You see, there is good intent to writing these laws, but there is no need to write them most of the time! Just like the “cyber stalking” laws. They are not worth the paper they are written upon, because it is already AGAINST the law to slander and libel and stalk people.
It is against the law to “unsafely operate” a motor vehicle. THIS is a vague law; however, it is rarely used. Would that law not suffice in the “texting while driving” argument? Writing laws like this actually “water-down” the other laws on the books.
Used to it was against the law to kill someone. Then someone said, we need harsher punishment for someone killing with a gun. So, they open the door for someone to argue that it doesn’t say not to use a knife and other stupid arguments.
You want things spelled out in exacting details (not vague), but that creates MORE problems than it fixes! For example, let’s add more years to a murderers sentence because a prosecutor thinks he hates the victim. I figure if he killed him, he probably hated him (at least at that moment)!
Writing laws on top of laws does not correct the problems! Enforcing the laws and ensuring the laws are applied is the problem. The American people have fallen down in their civil duties to care about their community, city, state and country. This failure to connect has led to the election of a Marxist through democratic means! If we don’t wake up and start applying COMMON SENSE (the first rule of law), then we will continue to backslide down the rocky road we currently find our bare-butts bumping!