Open Letter To State Officials Regarding Texting While Driving

I decided to make the following into a post so all SC Legislators could see it in one easy to link to place:

From a letter sent to SC Representative Shane Massey:

How will texting while driving be proven?

Clemson says they will ask for your phone and "see" if you were texting.

My iPhone is a computer more than it is a cellphone.

I have an "example" that my wife and I discussed this past weekend.

We watched Public Enemies with Johnny Depp ... one scene has Dillinger getting burned by the silencer on his weapon. He was yelling at his men - asking them to "do me a better custom - I'm gettin burned."

After we watched Public Enemies ... my wife and I watched one of our favorite shows "Forensic Files"

On this show - a guy committed a murder using a "homemade silencer". The show narrator said - he made the silencer because silencers are illegal.

I wanted to see why silencers were illegal ... coincidentally it was part of the Firearms Act passed in the 1930's due to John Dillinger.

This information is still loaded on my iPhone as a bookmarked page.

If a police officer pulled me over - inspected my phone and I had that on my iPhone ... What would he think?

I also would like to have a conceal & carry permit. I am suppose to hand over that ID if I'm pulled over ... Again I ask you ... What is an officer going to assume by all of this?

I have never been arrested, I've never been charged with a misdemeanor or felony ... but these "coincidences" make me look suspicious.

An officer has no right to search my personal effects - even if I didn't have this suspect information.

See also:

Cell Phone Bans Don't Decrease Accident Study Shows

"I Couldn't Give A Damn About The Future Of Touch"

How Clemson Is About To Erase Liberty In Liberty