If you Ban Guns then Ban Cell phones

Arlington WA

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Amazing, the info below was required from public information on the internet, yet it was flagged. Appears your cell phones are more important than the truth/facts. Maybe a few comments were the reason it was flagged, hit a nerve or denial of the truth is more important. Look at the facts, don't need your endless babble, looked this info up in 30 min on the internet. Could add a bunch more but people tend to jump on the latest band wagon without knowing what the hell their chanting about. I was right, flagged for pointing out public information. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the Department of Transportation, estimates 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2021, a 10.5% increase from the 38,824 fatalities in 2020. The deaths include pedestrians, cyclists and others who may have died during a crash. These are acceptable losses, third page news or quick traffic update because you can't get to spin class. Which leads right into next paragraph. How many accidents are caused by distracted driving 2021? Texting while driving is an epidemic, and it must be cured before it is too late to do anything about it. In fact, the use of mobile phones in vehicles has to be banned too. There are already a lot of states in the US that have laws against the use of cell phones and texting in the vehicle. Loss of life, distracted driving claims around eleven teenager every day because of texting and driving. (11 teenagers Die a day), why is this NOT national news? Mass killing! by cell phones but focus on guns because it's easier to jump on the band wagon. Almost 390,000 injuries transpire every year from crashes instigated by texting while driving. One out of every 4 car crashes in the United States is due to texting while driving. Texting while driving statistics reveal that this habit increases the likelihood of an accident almost 6 times more than drunk driving. Data as of Mar 5, 2022. Interesting, no body cares because we wouldn't want to be without a Cell Phone. Should the punishment for cell phone related deaths be equal too or greater than gun deaths? Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and host of others have loads of money, sue them for your decisions for not following the laws that are in place. Remington was sued for an ad campaign yet cell phones have far more features you can use while driving that they advertise on TV, social media and every form of public commercial advertising there is. Someone should jump on this, many families of those that were hurt or killed by a person texting or distracted while driving. Fun facts/data posted by mentioned agencies. I might add, Drugs, Alcohol, Cell phones all have endless resources, programs, assistance, training which includes government and state money/taxes for help kicking the habit Alcohol is a leading cause of traffic fatalities. Drinking and driving kills 28 people a day in the U.S. — about one person every 52 minutes — according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That is more than 10,000 lives lost each year to drunk driving. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before. Gun violence in Latin America is exceptionally high, due in no small part to the prevalence of criminal gangs and a vibrant drug trafficking industry. The Inter-American Development Bank released a report highlighting several critical factors in Latin American cities that contribute to increased gun violence, including economic deprivation, residential instability, family disruption, absence from school, the population’s age structure, and alcohol consumption. See a pattern forming in US? Many people understandably assume the high number of gun deaths in the U.S. is due to mass shootings, which receive frequent attention from the media. In truth, mass shootings account for only a small percentage of gun deaths in the United States. Rather, nearly two-thirds (63%) of gun deaths in the US in 2019 were suicides. There is a painfully high amount of gun-related violence in the United States annually. Some deaths are point-blank murders, many are suicides, and many gun-related deaths happen by accident due to negligent behavior or children getting their hands on weapons and firing a shot without knowing any better. Many states in the U.S. do not have strong firearm laws or strict gun ownership rules. As a result, an abundance of gun-related injuries occur in states where gun laws aren't strong. How many states have gun safety laws, You will be amazed to see the facts, look it up so you can learn something instead of ASSUMING because your social media told you so! Self check yourself, how much time do you think your kids spend playing video games where the use of guns/weapons to kill the enemy? Maybe take a few hours a day and have a conversation or do something with them instead. While guns are an easy target for bias media and the band wagon population. I wonder if you live in an apartment building that has armed security protecting the front door. Lived in house where your father had a gun to protect you/his family but never needed it. A multi M/billionaire that pumps millions into gun laws yet has an armed security team at all times, because they are more important than the average citizen. Question for you: Why didn't Japan attack inland after bombing Pearl Harbor almost wiping out our pacific fleet? I don't need the answer, learn something about Law abiding Americans that had pride in our nation, Thanks to all that have or are serving this country. Ever wonder why school or public place shooting increase just prior to voting times? All of a sudden your elected officials jump on the band wagon and say change is needed, yet are only in office to increase their financial portfolio. Lets look at the laws, punishment for said laws and training. Now go look in public records and see if the law/punishment was followed, Plea bargains, tossed out for technicality, repeat gun offenders on the streets. Believe it or NOT, banning guns, increased gun laws, will not change criminals who already have them. Gun Laws affect law abiding citizens only. Tomorrow your city, state and government will announce that all Cell Phones and Computers will be banned due to deaths, racism, bullying, sex trafficking, fraud, privacy infringement, personal data, Oh the list is too long and guns. Which will have the biggest impact? I pick cell phones and computers because our US government is a sponsor of illegal activity because it generates mass amount of money that is off the books. Our elected officials have lost touch. Passing laws and granting money that goes back into their wallets. Consequences, remember those? There are laws for everything, If you want change, then change the consequences. Strict gun related punishment/laws, but be consistent, if you kill with anything the law/punishment should be the same. Think about it! it takes a finger to pull the trigger of a gun, it takes fingers to turn the key/push a button on a motor vehicle, a hand to hold a knife, a hand or chin/blue tooth to operate a cell phone. All of these require a decision, own it and be objective.