Posted on 01/29/2008 2:39:37 PM PST by Incorrigible
Also true, we have much better entertainment options at home. Could be the age of the social club is winding down, although the Red Hat club seems to be doing well, so maybe it’s a guy thing.
Women are naturally more social.
“If a freind of yours was falling down drunk and got behind the wheel of a car, you really wouldn’t stop him?”
Sure - but I am talking about someone who drove incredibly well and incredibly safe. Obviously, he was not “falling down drunk”
Now, you tell me why he belongs in jail!
You tell me why .08 is now a death sentence - that is 3 beers in one hour on an empty stomach for most.
THAT IS HARDLY FALLING DOWN DRUNK!
Why are we putting 1.5 million in jail for this?
So, we’re back to at what level is drinking and driving safe? You think the level should be higher, but what about the idiot 100 lb college girl that can’t drive, even when sober, and how do we measure each person’s tolerance individually?
The levels wern’t just pulled put of thin air.
If he was driving so steady, how did he get pulled over 4 times?
“So, we’re back to at what level is drinking and driving safe?”
No we are not -
and that is why we dont have “how much cell phone and driving is safe” or “how much coffee drinking and driving is safe”.
How about this - safe driving is safe. If I can drink a six pack and drive safe, so be it. If a scatter brain who is paranoid of the road and has a bumper covered with AAA bumper stickers and cut off people and jumps on the brakes, lock’em up.
Its the bad driving that should be punished - not the whatever.
PS - MADD and their leftist ilk IS NOT UNHAPPY ABOUT LOTS OF MENS ORGANIZATIONS GOING UNDER. Men who gather at K of C , Elks, AL, the Legion, etc and discuss politics and the economy are dangerous. They get wild ideas about what is going wrong in this country.
I can see how MADD types, having lost a child, would feel helpless and go overboard. Not that I always condone it, but I do think that what drunks think is safe and what sober people see as safe is miles apart in all too many cases. We’ve seen them stagger out of their car and seriously wonder why they were pulled over!
Not causing accidents isn’t the only criteria for safe driving.
I fully agree idiots with cell phones shouldn’t be on the road. And actually WE DO have how much cell phone and driving is safe, more and more communities are outlawing it, and rightly so.
The difference between alcohol and drugs is it slows reaction time, there’s no warning point to suddenly being sober and safe to incapable and all over the road for too many people. It’s insidiously brain changing, inhibitions are decreased, reaction time decreased, etc.
There simply has to be some point that a rational person sees that not every size fits all and if someone has booze on their breath the police are obligated to at least investigate impairment, otherwise we’d have utter chaos...police being sued by families that had a child killed because someone was let go under the influence, etc.
I don’t think in most cases people under the influence are pulled over just for kicks and grins...there’s usually impairment and some reason for pulling over drunks.
If what you say is true, why do police wait outside of these veteran organizations and pull over vets for no reason?
Why are police roadblocks set up to stop every motorist?
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