Can We Cancel The NH Cell Phone Ban Now? - Granite Grok

Can We Cancel The NH Cell Phone Ban Now?

cell phone driverThe lead story on my digital copy of the New Hampshire Union Leader is…”NH Traffic Death Take Sharp Decline.”

We’re on track to have a record low number of traffic related fatalities for New Hampshire for 2014.  That would be the total number of actual deaths without regard to the kinds of factors the National Transportation Safety folks use like per million Vehicle Miles Travelled.  We could have 80 deaths and still have more deaths per VMT, if there was significantly less estimated road traffic, though that seems unlikely.

All this without the impending implementation of the unenforceable and inane electronic devices (cell phone ban) bill the Governor…did not apparently sign into law yet?

According to the General Court Bill Status HB 1360 is not yet chaptered law.  Did someone cling to it?  Does that matter?

Opportunity Knocks.  Could the busy-body Knee-Jerk Progresssives see this as an opportunity to jerk their knees back the other way?

Not likely, but if it is not yet law, why not let it sit around a while longer…

(I do have to wonder… is HB1360 also sitting on Terie Norelli’s desk?)

You have to consider the blaring headline and the facts at hand. ” Traffic deaths take sharp decline!”  People just decided not to kill each other with their cars this year, all the while using their cell phones.

Can we cancel the pointless Cell Phone Ban now?

Given that vehicle fatalities have dropped for no apparent reason without it, much the way they rose?

Is it possible that inconveniencing the entire population of the Granite State and all of its tourists forever, might–in fact–be a complete waste of time?

Could we save law enforcement the bother of having to chase down violators of yet another pointless and unenforceable statute people are going to ignore en mass anyway?

Or should we prepare for the worst?  Next year, when the bill goes into force–assuming it actually does–the odds are very good that the fatality rate will be higher.

Why not save your rediculously false narrative the embarrassment and let the bill die now so you wont have to keep listening to me tell you ‘I told you so?’

 

H/T to KATHRYN MARCHOCKI  – NH Union Leader

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