“Save your pontificating,..”
...I’m not “pontificating” as you say....I’m speaking from personal experiance....I’ve been cleaning up the wreckage from drunk drivers for the past 29 years and it’s not very pretty.
“I’ve been cleaning up the wreckage from drunk drivers for the past 29 years and it’s not very pretty.”
I guess that means the wreckage caused by sober drivers is pretty. Wreckage is wreckage and all should be treated equally.
I did not accuse you of pontificating, and before I remind you what I did, I want to make a couple of things clear.
I have personal experience with this issue, too. I have two firefighters in my family, one of whom has served even longer than you, IIRC. I also have a brother who didn't listen to their warnings about binge drinking and nearly snuffed his life out drunk driving.
So I don't think drunk driving is no big deal, or cool, or that stopping it is tyranny, or that the results are "pretty." Ask my brother who still sets off metal detectors with the pins in his legs.
Now, here's your reminder: I asked you a question. You quoted a description from the article and said that the person being described was driving home drunk. In response, I asked you the following questions:
Where’s the part of the story where he gets behind the wheel drunk?Or are you just assuming that because he drinks, he’s a drunk driver?
Now, can I get an answer? Or are we now convicting people of DUI based on one line of hearsay printed in a newspaper article? Where’s the part of the story where he gets behind the wheel drunk? Or are you just assuming that because he drinks, he’s a drunk driver?