Please, that's a tired argument. "If people with hand-held cell-phones weren't a menace, this would be a non-issue"
Like the people driving with screaming kids are a menace? Like the person who drops hot coffee on themselves while driving? Define menace.
This thread has nothing to do with gun control. It has to do with people who can't control a vehicle when they need to because one hand is not on the steering wheel...like the woman who swerved in order to miss me because she had a cell phone glued to her head.
I didn't bring up the word "menace", but since you mentioned it, anybody who fits into the category of this woman is a menace to me. I don't want to die because of some dumb person who is more concerned with grasping a cell phone than steering her car.
Is it one-handed driving? Would you like to ban driving with your arm out the window? Deny licences to amputees or folks with a broken arm? Criminalize radio station and CD changes while the vehicle is moving?
Could it be talking while driving makes you feel unsafe? Perhaps the state should protect you by mandating silence while in the car, yes? A noise-free zone, much like a smoke-free zone? You could say it's for the children, you know.
Maybe you're just against people not paying attention to the task at hand. Ban scenic drives! Ban looking at your passenger! Ban eating! Ban drinking! Ban smoking! Heck, you're on a public road, right? Why can't the state mandate EVERYTHING you do while operating your vehicle everywhere but in your own driveway!
You can still drive and talk on a cell phone (heck, Batman did it). Just like you can drive with one hand and while chatting with your passenger. What is needed is common sense. Good luck forcing people under pain of law to do that, though.