[Lester Moore]

Why don't we all just be good little peasants and go to work and pay our money to the government, and then just go home.

What about the victims of accidents involving impaired drivers? I don't agree with prohibition because it'd be a waste of time & taxpayer money, but around 40% of all accidents with fatalities is caused by a driver that has been drinking.

You want to get plastered at home & play games or watch a movie, who cares?

Because I care, I say: "You drink. You drive. You pay hell."

[saminfl]

I don't agree with prohibition because it'd be a waste of time & taxpayer money, but around 40% of all accidents with fatalities is caused by a driver that has been drinking.

I don't think that is true at all. If so, it means that all these DUI laws have not worked very well, or there must have been a 98% rate at some time. Please cite a source for this (not one from MADD).

[Normal4me]

You took one sentence out of my post and come to the conclusion that I endorse drunk driving? No, I don't endorse drunk driving, what I have a problem with is government determining that after two beers, I am too impaired to drive safely. What I have a problem with is being pulled over and made to stand on one foot and recite the alphabet and If I do that right and they aren't satisfied, I get to blow into a straw. Now it seems if I do both and they are still not happy, they get to stick a needle in my veins.

Would you go to a bar, which are still legal by the way, if there was a cop in there watching you and then following you out to your vehicle? I know I wouldn't, even if I had only had one beer.

If you want to solve traffic related deaths due to alcohol, close every bar and nightclub, vfw, eagles, moose, etc and see how Americans react.

[CSM]

"..but around 40% of all accidents with fatalities is caused by a driver that has been drinking."

Nope. Around 40% of all accidents with fatalities involves alcohol. Big difference. The pedestrian who had been drinking that gets run over and killed by a sober driver is considered a traffic accident resulting in death that involved alcohol.

Why not treat all drivers, drunk or sober, that cause damage to people or property with the same penalties?