Dude you LOSE but I do appreciate the semi-honest debate and yet another Strawman.
You so much as get caught TALKING on a cell phone in several states, it's a minimally $500 fine.
Study up
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/cellular-phone-use-and-texting-while-driving-laws.aspx
Oh for Christ's sake. This is like shooting pool with a rope. You're acting like I'm not aware of these things or that I'm denying them. I know just as much as you do about the laws against texting and driving and the safety features in cars and the reduction in auto fatalities and I never said anything to cause you to assume otherwise.
My point from the beginning is that teenage highway fatalities, being just as high if not more than firearm fatalities among teens, gets almost no attention. Never has the issue of teen texting and driving galvanized the country like firearms are doing right now and yet the body count is the same. How do you account for the pointed disinterest in the issue of texting and driving deaths relative to the passion about the equal number of firearm deaths?
Let's do a hypothetical. Let's say for the sake of argument that there are 5,000 teen deaths in car accidents this year and 5,000 teen firearm deaths. Now let's say that next year there are no teen firearm deaths but 10,000 teen auto fatalities. Would the issue of texting and driving get the kind of fervor and passion that firearms do right now? Would they be marching on Washington demanding laws and bans? I highly doubt it.
Now let's say that next year there are no teen auto fatalities but 10,000 firearm deaths. You know as well as I do that if the number of firearm deaths jumped from 5,000 to 10,000, even without the auto fatalities, this country would go apeshit. Yet given that the numbers are roughly the same, they may as well ALL be firearm deaths.
Are you getting any clue yet as to where I'm coming from?