[knighthawk]

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[JoeFromCA]

Drivers using cell phones kill more people every year than the terrorists killed when they flew two planes into the World Trade Center. Drunk drivers kill about five times as many. Yet our society tolerates it.

[bassmaner]

Oh, can the DUI hysterics. 1.6 million people are arrested annually in the U.S. for DUI. With the 0.08 BAC laws, this is bound to increase, and ruin the lives of a large number of social drinkers who pose no threat to other drivers. Many serve mandatory minimum prison sentences, lose jobs because of transportation problems, and are bankrupted by fines and lawyer's fees - and it often stems from a conviction for a crime of being less impaired than the average cell phone user, or a mother with an unruly child.

This is not to condone real drunken drivers -- at BAC 0.14 and above, the level of fatalities in alcohol-related crashes jumps dramatically. We don't need to become a police state to catch those guys - better police work and more awareness will do just fine. 0.08 BAC laws are simply a precursor to MADD's real agenda: VIRTUAL PROHIBITION.

[Mr. Bird]

The burden would then be where it belonged: on the shoulders of the person who endangered everyone who came close to his 2-ton, out-of-control deadly weapon.

Yeah, good idea. Toss out presumed innocence for the drinkers of the world.

It seems the "rule of two" makes perfect sense. If I'm not drunk and I accidentally kill someone, I'm not arrested and tried for killing them.

The prohibitionists have done a good job at creating social taboos against drunk driving. Honestly. It's not a good thing to do, and it can be a deadly activity. But creating the opportunity for unjust prosecutions is going too far.

[truth_seeker]

The state which elected Hillary.

[1Old Pro]

Save a Life, Change the Law, starting with drunken drivers.

Perhaps Ted Kennedy could champion a law such as this . He could start by turning himself in.

[Destructor]

Punish drunks and dopers that kill behind the wheel!