To the people whose loved ones they kill, they're no different from terrorists. They don't really give a damn who they kill, because if they did, they'd never get behind a steering wheel after they've been drinking. Why don't you ask the New Jersey mother who police came upon sitting on the roadside last summer, cradling the head of her decapitated 6 year old daughter, who'd just been killed by a drunk driver? Do you suppose she would have felt worse if the little girl had been killed by an Islamowacko homicide bomber?
No, I asked a question and even if you're intervening on someone else's behalf, you're supposed to answer it.
So here we go again: are YOU really saying that people who drink and drive are as bad as TERRORISTS?
I'll tell you what, let's go with your hypo. Let's ask the victim of the average drunken driver what they think, and we'll ask the victim of the average terrorist what they think. I'm pretty sure the victim of the average drunken driver will be silent--because I would take bets that the average drunken driver makes it home scot-free, and nobody is killed and there is no victim. And it probably happens in your neighborhood every day. What these laws do is harshly criminalize behavior that so many people get away with, and they lose respect for the law entirely as a result. And it doesn't solve the problem. I'm not saying we shouldn't be HARSH, not at all, but where we are it should at least solve the problem.
"To the people whose loved ones they kill, they're no different from terrorists. They don't really give a damn who they kill, because if they did, they'd never get behind a steering wheel after they've been drinking."
PERFECT!
I would like to add to that statement if I may:
Not all people that are victims of a terrorist act die, likewise not all victims of drunk driving die, in both cases lives are forever altered and damaged.