Illinois has banned composing, sending or receiving text messages while driving.

This headline on the subject made me laugh a little bit, though.

Some distractions now eliminated.

It’s like “Thank you .gov for taking these distractions off our hands!”.  The law is enacted, therefore 100% compliance ensues.

We didn’t like people getting murdered, so we made it illegal.  And Boom. Now nobody gets murdered anymore.

Handguns are illegal in Chicago.  So now no one in the city of Chicago gets shot by or even owns a handgun.

It’s a fact.

It’s that easy.

All we need is more and more laws to make the shitty state of Illinois, a Utopia.

The other part of this new law makes it illegal to talk on your cell phone in a school zone without a hands-free device.

How exactly are you supposed to end conversations that quickly without knowing where all the school zones are?

Are people with one arm banned from driving?  Because I never have two hands on the steering wheel when driving anyways, on the phone or not.

I can eat, change the radio stations, roll the windows up and down, mess with climate control, slide my seat forward and back, flip people off, pick my nose, drive with my knees, etc. But, I can’t be holding a connected cell phone while my car is near a school zone, where we’ve already been slowed down to 20mph anyways.

Does outlawing a cell phone in our hand really make us more cautious or aware?  I think there is a logical fallacy in there somewhere.

They could have just said, don’t run over little kids.