".08 was adopted across the country and in combination with other things done at the same time has shown to be part of a falling trend. Numbers show that."
"in combination with other things" is the most rational thing you've yet posted.
Include among those other things the smoking bans which are driving down bar business.
Because you have so many new factors introduced around the same time, you can't point to one, like going to .08, as the cause for a fall in drunk-driving deaths.
Increased personal responsibility, arrest avoidance, using back streets, smoking bans, reduced tobacco use, lower alcohol content in traditional brands, all these things factor into the decline.
The sad problem is that while we're arresting people at .08 and .09, it's the chronic .22 that's still out there, won't reform and causes accidents. It's the .15s to .30s doing the damage, just as before.
Read the links I posted before. Those numbers have fallen since the changes were made also. Argue all you want to but it is a choice to drink and drive, and if you do accept the punishment you get just as you would have to do if you robbed someone and stuck a knife in them. Crash into them and you kill them just as dead.