Liquor laws are weird everywhere. In Texas you can’t buy liquor after 9 PM but you can got to a bar and drink until 2AM. Seems like it would be safer for everyone to buy a bottle and to drink at home.
Certainly cheaper.
“Seems like it would be safer for everyone to buy a bottle and to drink at home.”
If they did. But drinkers too many times like to drink in groups. So they will go to someone else’s home and drink to excess. At bars, they practice dram shop and under that when a person appears to have reached the point of intoxication, they are cut off. And some areas take car keys and some states or areas have free cab service for a tipsy person. Some areas allow the stretching of service with a designated driver in attendance and offer free soft drinks or coffee to the designates as an incentive.
I don’t want to be driving and run into a drunk driver. In the US in 2019 there were over 40,000 deaths from auto accidents. The leading causes are drunk driving (40%), speeding (30%), and irresponsible driving (33%). A drunk driver fills all those catagories. And that’s just the deaths. An additional 2.38 million are injured yearly. So is it safer to have the drinker overseen so they don’t go excess and get into a car?
And many states are allowing marijuana use, another intoxicant, and many have no way of determining excess for that. To me, I don’t care if they call it C-19 efforts. I want me and mine to be safe on the highways.
rwood