Knee jerk, smarmy little liberal statements do not anecdotal make...
I was and know many, many people who spent continuous months/years in a 'legally' drunk condition...personally, I have had a couple of 18+ month periods of what I would guarentee 'waking BAC of over .08' ...I drove more carefully in regards to speed, signaling, full stops etc during those periods than I normally do now...
Yes there were many times when I was intoxicated and had much less control over my vehicle, and knew it...one of which I pulled off the road to sleep... and was charged dui for sleeping in the car [so much for doing the right thing huh? NEVER made that mistake again ]
Point is that when I was 'sober' [< .08] I felt ABnormal and had a difficult time focusing on the road and driving...
Lumping all humans into such compartments are a revenue device, just the same as the speed limit...
Forget the clear correlation between lower accident and death rates and enforcement of 0.08% BAC laws..
which funding agency issued those numbers ??? Probably the one that witholds $$$ unless the conviction numbers are reached in each state,county,city...same as the seatbelt numbers ???
/rant...
LFOD...
> Knee jerk, smarmy little liberal statements do not anecdotal make...
It's called sarcasm. And yes, your post was about an anecdote. Look up the word.
Here, I'll even help you:
an·ec·doteI was and know many, many people who spent continuous months/years in a 'legally' drunk condition...personally, I have had a couple of 18+ month periods of what I would guarentee 'waking BAC of over .08' ...I drove more carefully in regards to speed, signaling, full stops etc during those periods than I normally do now...
-noun
a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
"many, many people" - How many, many? Enough to constitute a statistically significant portion of the tens of millions of US drivers? I'm guessing not.
If those "many, many" people have chosen to remain in a >0.08 BAC condition, that's their prerogative. But they--and you, apparently--should certainly not drive in that condition and then be surprised/shocked/angry when you're arrested.
Driving more carefully because you're aware of your inebriated condition doesn't change its effect on you. You can be a driving hazard at a slow speed too.
Yes there were many times when I was intoxicated and had much less control over my vehicle, and knew it...one of which I pulled off the road to sleep... and was charged dui for sleeping in the car [so much for doing the right thing huh? NEVER made that mistake again]
You're like a poster child for bad judgment, man. That kind of decision-making is exactly why most of us want drivers like you off the road!
Point is that when I was 'sober' [< .08] I felt ABnormal and had a difficult time focusing on the road and driving...
No, the point is that how you "feel" is completely irrelevant.
Drivers with BAC >0.08 cause more accidents than those below. The law has to draw a line somewhere, and that's where it is.
Lumping all humans into such compartments are a revenue device, just the same as the speed limit...
Yeah, that's it. Keep ignoring the bodies. You'll feel better about your bad judgment.
> Forget the clear correlation between lower accident and death rates and enforcement of 0.08% BAC laws..
which funding agency issued those numbers ???
What agency would you believe? Every agency has to be funded by someone. Do you think they're all out to get you?
Do you have any evidence that the numbers are false? ...or just your paranoid conjectures?
Probably the one that witholds $$$ unless the conviction numbers are reached in each state,county,city...same as the seatbelt numbers ???
And, of course, if they actually want the program to be implemented and enforced by the states, with penalties if they don't, then their motives must be eeeeeevil, right?
A good government agency would not make sure their policies were implemented. A good government agency wouldn't care if the law was enforced or not. Is that your position?
Look, I used to be a LEO. I got to see and clean up the results of thinking like yours. I'm going to make a wild guess that you have never been in or at an accident scene with fatalities.
It was very hard to tell who was more deeply affected by the accident, whether the family of the victim who was split into a dozen bloody pieces, or the idiot driver who "felt" like he was more in control when he had a few beers in him, but now wants to blow his head off because he can't take back his stupid decision.