[sully777]

Wanna stop them??
How about 1 year in jail for the first offence??
Nah, that would work, and there is too much money to be made on fines.

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Great?! Now you have a drunk that is now sodomized.

I think the term "drunk" is the key to the problem. Americans are not educated from childhood the proper way to handle alcohol. For example, Italians (from Italy) eat and drink alcohol at the dinner table, which significantly lowers the effects of drunkenness. For many cultures, drinking is social and mature, rather than kegger-getting-SF-stupidity.

[international american]

How many drunks would risk a year in jail to drive home??
Not many, I'll wager.

[Just another Joe]

You have a point, Sully, but it's more than that.
Many families, at least that I know, "eat and drink alcohol at the dinner table" and it still ends up being the kegger mentality.

It's not that the kids don't get exposed to it, they're not 'taught' about it.
Most people, especially when they're younger, don't think twice about drinking a few, or more, and then driving.
The children see this and do the same thing.
You cannot use the, "do what I say, not what I do" argument. It doesn't work.

The entire ethic surrounding alcohol needs to change.