My best friends wife was decapitated by a teenage girl texting while driving and the devastation to the family was unspeakable.
I hav ezero sympathy for folks like you that think it is your “right” to unsafely operate a 4,000 lb. piece of equipment. Just as I do not have any sympathy for drunks driving those same 4,000 lb. cars, just like the one that killed my grandmother 40 yrs. ago.
I do not give a crap if they kill themselves and only themselves but when the do so to others is when it is an invasion of their rights.
Blanket assumptions like yours make you look foolish FRiend. You automatically assume that I do not practice discretion regarding distracted driving and am indifferent to anyone except myself. You are wrong.
My objection to this proposed rule has to do with the inappropriateness of the federal government insinuating itself into a matter better left to individual states.
That's the correct conservative POV on this issue - not turgid emotion-based hand-wringing or juvenile threats.