https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/30/actual-ap-quote-state-and-local-officials-are-struggling-to-figure-out-how-to-respond-and-in-some-cases-asking-how-far-government-should-go-in-trying-to-protect-people-from-themselves/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 10:47:06 -0400<![CDATA[The quote comes in the context of an Associated (with stupid big government ideas, terrorists, and generally shoddy journalism) Press story about the deadly menace of people texting while they&#8217;re walking around. Are they walking into nuclear power plants, causing deadly meltdowns and taking entire regions off the power grid? Are they texting their way into the cockpits of crowded airliners thereby taking them out of the sky? Are they texting their way en masse onto crowded freeways, slowing the velocities along normally speedy interstates into a Los Angeles-style crawl? Has their pedestrian texting brought about the zombie apocalypse? No, they&#8217;re walking into poles and off train platforms, stuff like that. Here are a few of the cases causing civilizational panic.]]>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:33:22 -0400<![CDATA[Bryan Preston]]>https://pjmedia.com/bryan-preston-1/2012/07/30/actual-ap-quote-state-and-local-officials-are-struggling-to-figure-out-how-to-respond-and-in-some-cases-asking-how-far-government-should-go-in-trying-to-protect-people-from-themselves-n169115